Mr, DowpAus appeared for the plaintiff The Defendant conducted h Yangeking-pang, At a meeting of Rat payers held under the Land Regulations of 1870 in February, 1880, a resolution was passed for raising meade for 1980 imposing a General Municipal Rate of 8% on foreign rentals payable by the occupiers in respect of the actual oF ad rental quarterly in advance on the Ist days of ry, April, July and October; that liar meeting wae held in February, 1881, and a resolution for raising means for that year was passed in similar terms to the Tesolution passed in 1880; that the defendant was. in respect of rental of part of No. 2 Yangtsze Road for the first quarter of 1880 and in respect of rental of No. 2 at Tis, 1.6.0, and for No. 1 Yangtezo of el together! ich the suit wi brought; and that ent 0 state that debit notes were delivered for t sums, and though the 14 days allowed for pa ment had expired yot the defendant had not paid the sum due. The learned Counsel went on tosay that the answer admitted that a me ing of 67 Ratepayers was held on the 23rd. of February, 1881, but it was denied by the defendant that these Batopay had any ight to levy taxes on him, and it seemed to
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