Directory_and_Chronicle_1939 — Page 764

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Ports

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SCALES OF

OF COMMISSIONS AND BROKERAGES

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Adopted at the Annual General Meeting held 19th May 1903

Purchasing or selling Tea, Raw Silk, and Cotton Purchasing or selling Opium

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...

Purchasing or selling all other Goods and Produce Purchasing or selling Ships and Landed Property

Purchasing or selling Stocks and Shares Inspecting 'l'ea

Inspecting Silk

Guaranteeing Sales

Guaranteeing Remittances

Drawing or endorsing Bills of Exchange

Drawing or negotiating Bills of Exchange without recourse Purchasing or realising Bullion or Bills of Exchange

Remitting the Proceeds of Bullion or Bills of Exchange Paying and receiving Money in Current Account

Collecting Freight

Paying Ship's Disbursements

Obtaining Freight or Charter

Obtaining Freight or Charter and collecting same Freight

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24 per cent.

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Adjusting Insurance Claims on Amount Recovered

Effecting Insurance, on the Insured Amount

Prosecuting or defending successfully Claims, either at Law or by Arbitration

Prosecuting or defending unsuccessfully

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Managing Estates and collecting Rents (on Gross Receipts)

Transhipping and forwarding Jewellery and Bullion

Forwarding or transhipping Cargo

Transhipping or forwarding Opium Goods withdrawn or re-shipped.

Granting Letters of Credit

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24

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2 per chest.

Commission

1 per cent. ·

For doing ship's business when no inward or outward Commission is earned, 20 cts. per Register ton.

The conversion into Hongkong carrency of sterling freight inward to Hongkong, payable in Hongkong, shall, unless otherwise stipulated, be made at the rate for Bank Bills on London payable on demand; and the rate ruling at the close of a mail shall be the rate applicable to such purpose during the subsequent weck.

Brokerage on Bills and Bullion

Brokerage on Produce and General Merchandise

Brokerage on Fire Arms

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Brokerage for Negotiating and completing Charters and }

procuring Freight...

1

Brokerage for Negotiating sale or purchase of Landed Property 1

per cent.

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Payable by Seller,

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by Ship.