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, aud 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.
Remittance alone ........
Du.
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
Collecting inward Freight
Do. Ships' Disbursements....
Obtaining Freight or Charter, including Brokerage
Do.
do.
Entering and/or Clearing
and collecting same Freight, including Brokerage
(No charge if the commission exceed Tls. 100)
Settlement and payment of Marine Insurance Claims
On 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. 2
3
1
21
3
1
"
""
"
2
*
I
1
33
17
+
31
21
2
5
6
Tls. 100.
2 per cent.
1
5
**
10 0 2 10
2
33
24
19
5
"
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 Opiu
Goods withdrawn or re-shipped....
Granting Letters of Credit
Interest on cash advances
·
5
>
Tls. 2 per chest.
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 ou Bills and Bullion
BROKERAGES
Do. selling Produce, Metals, and General Merchandize*.
Ship Brokerage for negotiating and completing Charters
Do.
Brokerage on Shares, Stocks, Debentures, and other Public Securities...
0 per cent. from seller.
>J
from consignees,
from seller.
1
19
1
22
procuring cargo
1
"
01
* Brokerage to be paid only on Goods actually delivered.
INVOICE CHARGES
Chests. †-chests. Boxes,
TEA.-BLACK.—Rattans, Mending and Marking
Do.
.............................Cands. 8
5
do.
and Matting.
30
20
12
JJ
8
5
»
"
10 00 20 00
3
2
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 and Coolie Hire
Godown Rent
Fire Insurance
Postages and Petties
**
21
Municipal Dues, as charged by the Municipal Council.
6
"
5
3
20
12
"
75c.
25c. or for all Tls. 1.0.0
25c.
. per cent.
.1
mille
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