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Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

SCALE OF COMMISSIONS-HONGKONG.

267

SCALE OF COMMISSIONS.

ADOPTED BY THE

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Purchasing Tea, Raw Silk, Opium, and Cotton

do.

do.

do.

do.

all other Goods and Produce, Ships and Real Estate do. Bullion ...

Selling Tea, Raw Silk, Opium, and Cotton

*

3 per cent.

if as returns for Goods sold 21

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5

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1

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3

>>

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1

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do. all other Goods and Produce, Ships and Real Estate Inspecting Silk or Tea

...

...

Guaranteeing Sales and Remittances when required

do. Sales alone

Drawing or indorsing Bills of Exchange

do. or negotiating Bills of Exchange without recourse.....

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 Freight

Obtaining Freight or Charter

do.

do.

Adjusting Insurance Claims

...

and collecting same freight

Effecting Insurance; on the insured amount

"

33

1

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11 - 220NOBNI LO

Prosecuting or defending successfully claims either at law or by arbitration 5

do.

do. unsuccessfully

Managing Estates and Collecting Rents...

Transhipping and Forwarding Jewellery and Bullion

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97

11

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5

23

Landing or Transhipping Cargo

Transhipping and Forwarding Opium...

Goods withdrawn or re-shipped

Granting letters of credits

Brokerage on Bills and Bullion, buying and selling

do.

Ship Brokerage

do. Produce and general Merchandize

do.

1

79

"

$3 per chest.

half commission.

1 per cent.

per cent. from seller.

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""

pr. ct. from c'signees.

Brokerage on Shares, on subscribed capital of up to $250, $1 per Share from each party.

do.

do.

over $250, 81

The foregoing Rates to be exclusive of Shroffage at the Rates of $1 per mil.

and Brokerage when paid.

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