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......
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all other Goods and Produce
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Ships, and Real Estate....... Bullion.....
alone....
Guaranteeing Sales or Remittances, when required
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21 per cent.
if as returns for goods sold.................
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Inspecting Silk, Tea, or other goods and Produce.
Do. Stocks, Shares, Dedenture, and other goods Securities. Do. Ships, and Real Estate
Do. all other Goods and Produce....
Selling Tea, Raw Silk, Opium, and Cotton.....
Do. Stocks, Shares, Debentures, and other Public Securities.
Do.
Do.
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.
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and collecting same Freight, including Brokerage...
(No charge if the commission exceed Tls. 100)
Obtaining Freight or Charter, including Brokerage.
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do.
Entering and/or Clearing..
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....
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Goods withdrawn or re-shipped....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..
Interest on cash advances.....................................................................
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Tls. 100.
21 per cent..
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Tls. 2 per chest
half commission. 1 per cent.
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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..
Of per cent. from seller.
Do. Brokerage on Shares, Stock, Debentures, and other Public Securities 01
* Brokerage to be paid only on Goods actually delivered.
TEA.—BLACK.-Rattans, Mending and Marking...
Do.
Boat and Coolie Hire......
Godown Rent......
GREEN-
INVOICE CHARGES
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and Matting.
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Chests. -chests. Boxes.
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Boat and Coolie Hire......
Godown Rent
Marking, Mending, Matting and Rattaning..
SILK.-Packing and Marking, per bale...
Boat and Coolio Hire
Godown Rent
Fire Insurance.
Postages and Petties
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Municipal Dues, as charged by the Municipal Council
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25c. or for all Tls. 1.0.0. .25c.
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