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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.

Do.

Do.

Do.

Do.

do.

do.

all other Goods and Produce...

Ships, and Real Estate................

Bullion

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.

Du.

do. alone......

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

24 per cent

2

8

1

"

2+

3

5

1

1

"

2

1

33

..

1

1

Paying and receiving Money in current account

Do. Ships' Disbursements......

Collecting inward Freight

24

*

21

5

and collecting same Freight, including Brokerage

6

Tls. 100.

(No charge if the commission exceed Tls. 100)

Obtaining Freight or Charter, including Brokerage

Do.

do.

Entering and/or Clearing

Settlement and payment of Marine Insurance Claims...........

Ou the Amount paid for Average Claims

On the Amount paid for total losses

Taking up Bottomry Bonds

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..

21 per cent.

215

"

5

மல்லி

**

21

Managing Estates and Collecting Rents

Transhipping and Forwarding Jewellery and Bullion...

Landing or Transhipping Cargo

Selling Cargo ex Ships put into port Damaged

Transhipping or Forwarding Opium.

Goods withdrawn or re-shipped.

Granting Letters of Credit

5

01

1

5

..Tla. 2 per chest.

half commission.

1

per cent.

8

Interest on cash advances

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

Of per cent. from seller.

1

>>

"

1

"

from consignees.

1

*

01

from seller.

Brokerage on Shares, Stocks, Debentures, and other Public Securities .........

"

• Brokerage to be paid only on Goods sotually delivered.

INVOICE CHARGES.

TEA.-BLACK.-Rattans, Mending and Marking

Do.

do.

and Matting.

....Cands. 8

Chests. †-chests, Boxes,

5 3 80 20 12

Boat and Coolie Hire

Godown Rent

GREEN-

"

Boat and Coolie Hire

Godown Rent

Marking, Mending, Matting and Rattaning

SILK.-Packing and Marking, per bale.

Boat aud Coolie Hire

Godown Rent

Fire Insurance

Postages and Petties

"

"

Municipal Dues, as charged by the Municipal Council.

6

**

5

3

13

20

12

"

.75c.

25c. or for all Tls. 1.0.0

.25c.

§ per cent.

.1 mille

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