REVISED SCALE OF COMMISSIONS AND BROKERAGES, ADOPTED BY THE SHANGHAI GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD 28th March, 1888
Purchasing Tea, Raw Silk, Opium, and Cotton......
do.
all other Goods and Produce....
Do.
do.
Do.
Do.
Ships, and Real Estate....
Do.
Bullion
Do.
if as returns for
goods
sold....
Stocks, Shares, Debentures, and other Public Securities.
Selling Tea, Raw Silk, Opium, and Cotton......
Do. all other Goods and Produce
Do.
Ships, and Real Estate
Do. Stocks, Shares, Debentures, and other Public Securities Inspecting Silk, Tea, or other goods and Produce
Guaranteeing Sales or Remittances, when required
Do. do. alone
Do.
Du.
Remittance alone
Native Bank orders received in payment for Goods...
Drawing, indorsing, or negotiating Bills of Exchange, on approved Bills secured by Credits or
Documents
Realizing Bullion or Bills of Exchange
Remitting the proceeds of Bullion or Bills of Exchange
Paying and receiving Money in current account
Do. Ships' Disbursements......
Collecting inward Freight
Do.
do.
Obtaining Freight or Charter, including Brokerage
and collecting same Freight, including Brokerage
Entering and 'or Clearing
(No charge if the commission exceed Tls. 100)
Settlement and payment of Marine Insurance Claims .
On the Amount paid for Average Claims
Taking up Bottomry Bonds
On the Amount paid for total losses
...
Prosecuting or Defending, successfully, Claims, either at Law or by Arbitration on amount
claimed
Prosecuting or Defending unsuccessfully, on amount claimed
Proving claims, collecting and remitting Dividends, on amount proved..
Managing Estates and Collecting Reuts
Transhipping and Forwarding Jewellery and Bullion................
Lauding or Transhipping Cargo....
Selling Cargo ex Ships put into port Damaged
Transhipping or Forwarding Opiuu
Goods withdrawn or re-shipped...
21 per cent.
2
3
5
1
21
11
5
31
1
"
1
"1
"
2
"
1
*
1
19
•
"
20
21 24
*
*
5
"
6
Tis. 100.
2 per cent.
1
5
5
"
21
หล
21
"
**
1
5
"
Tis. 2 per chest.
Granting Letters of Credit
Interest on cash advances
half commission.
1
per cent.
8
..
The foregoing rates to be exclusive of Shroffage, 1 per mil., and Brokerage, when paid; unless otherwise stated.
Brokerage on Bills and Bullion
BROKERAGES
Do. selling Produce, Metals, and General Merchandize*.
Ship Brokerage for negotiating and completing Charters
Do.
procuring cargo
Brokerage on Shinres, Stocks, Debentures, and other Public Securities
• Brokerage to be paid only on Goods actually delivered,
O per cent. from seller.
1
1
1
17
01
13
from consignees.
from seller.
INVOICE
CHARGES
TEA.—BLACK.-Rattans, Mending and Marking.
Do.
do.
Boat and Coolie Hire
Godown Rent
GREEN-
Boat and Coolie Hire
Godown Rent
an Matting
Marking, Mending, Matting and Rattaning
SILK.-Packing and Marking, per bale.
Boat and Coolie Hire
Godown Rent
Fire Insurance
Postages and Petties
Municipal Dues, as charged by the Municipal Council.
Chests.
-chests. Boxes.
Cands. 8
5
3
30
20
12
8
3
3
**
"
"
75c.
...25c.
.25c.
i per cent.
*
4
5
3
20
12
or for all Tls. 1.0.0
.1 mille
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