REVISED SCALE OF COMMISSIONS, BROKERAGES, AND CHARGES ADOPTED BY THE SHANGHAI GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, ÅT THE ANNUAL Ĝeneral MEETING HELD 8TH APRIL, 1878.
Purchasing Tea, Raw Silk, Opium, and Cotton......
Do.
Da.
Do.
do.
da.
if as returns for goods sold....++ all other Goods and Produce, Ships, and Real Estate....................................................... Bullion
Do. Stocke, Shares, Debentures, and other Public Securities
Selling Tea, Raw Silk, Opium, and Cotton.......
Do. all other Goods and Produce, Ships, aud Real Estate
Do. Storks, Shares, Debentures, and other Public Securities
Inspecting Silk or Tea..
Guaranteeing Sales or Remittances, when required,
Do.
do. alone.....
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3 per cent. 24
++
]
+
JI
3
21
JJ
JF
JJ
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2+
IJ
2+
1
J5
Do. Native Bouk 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
Collecting inward Freight
Do. Ships' Disbursements........
Obtaining Freight or Charter, including Brokerage
+
1
1
1
F
1
-------
JJ
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21
JJ
----
Do.
do.
aud collecting same Freight, including Brokerage**
+
Entering and/or Clearing
(No charge if the commissions exceed Tle, 100)
Adjusting Insurance Claims
Effecting Insurance; on the insured amount
Tls. 100.
21 per cent. 02
Taking op Boltomry Bonds
5
Н
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Prosecuting or Defending, successfully, Claims, either at Law or by Arbitration, on amouet
claimed
Prosecuting or Defending unsuccessfully, on amonut claimed
Proving clairos, collecting and remitting Dividends on amount proved...................................................................... Managing Estates and Collecting Rents
Transhipping and Forwarding Jewellery and Bulliou..........
5
21
JJ
J
01
35
Landing or Transhipping Cargo.........
Selling Cargo ex Ships put into port Damaged
Transhipping or Forwarding Opinm
Goods withdrawn or re-shipped.
Granting Letters of Credit
Interest on cash advances
---------
+
נו
**
..Tie. $ per chest. half commission. 1 per cent.
12
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
procuring cargo
ILLI
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Do. Brokerage on Shares, Stocks, Debentures, and other Public Securities
►
per cent. from seller.
+
15
JJ
1
2
from consignees.
1
*J
J
MHHILF
+
from seller,
Brokerage to be paid only on Goods actually delivered,
TEA.—BLACK.—Rattans, Meading and Marking
Do
do.
Bont and Coolie Hire
Godow· hent
GREEN-
Boat an. Coolie Hire
Godown Kent
ISTOICE CHANGES.
Chests, -cheats, Boxes,
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............................ Canda. 10
6
4
and Matting
40
25
16
JJ
LO
N
8
J
8
4
++
8
4
26
15
Marking, Mending, Matting and Rattaning
SILK.-Packing and Marking, per bale....
Boat and Coolie Hice
Godown Rent
J
#
-------------- AETATEA
++
.75c.
.25c. or for all Ths. 1.3.6
------------+---------
95c.
- per cent.
mille
12
Fire Insurance..............................ajamarqand Postages and Petties.....
Municipal Dues, no charged by the Municipal Council.