abolition of Transit Dues and Internal Custom Houses Nanking, Aug. 13.
In accordance with the decision of the Nationalist Government to abolish a)l internal transit duties. and to put into effect the new provisional law of the national taritt on September 1, - throughout the provinces of Kuangtung, Kuangsi, Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsi, and Anhui, the following ordinary main custom houses together with their branch offices shall be abolished on or before September 1. All official transactions in those regions " shall forthwith cease and their complete records shall be filed with the Ministry of Finance before the 20th, of this month, 4 The Doomed Custom Houses The number of the ordis main custom houses to be abolished-is 12, Which are distributed as follows:
; Nantao, Shanghai, One main enigom, house'and one Draneb, 2 Wuhu. One main custom house, ten branches, and two tall offices.
Minhai, Fukien. One custom house, nine branches two toll offices, 4, Fuhai, "Fukien, One main custom house, and eight. branche:
5, Chehai, 6. Amoy, Fukien. Three bronc) custom houges and two toll offices.
'7. Yinhai,—Chekiang, Five branch offices.
8 Yangyit, Yangchow, Twelve Branch custom houses, one tax bureau, and 12 toll offices.
9, Yushhai, Canton. Seven ranch custom "houses, two suboffices, and 12 toll offices, 40.' Kiunghai, Kuangtung. Three branch custom houses and 17 toll office 11, Weian, -Kuangtung, Four branch offices and 21 sub-effies, 32, Fengyang, Anhui, Six branch custom houses and 11 is notable that the so-called ordinary main custom houses. are the highest organs for the collection of all internal duties, Since the 1901 Protocol the designation of those offices has changed—thus the main classes of custom house:
jao within 50 li radius of t open ports, and those without the 50 Ji limit. The revenue from all custom houses within the 50 Li radius is reserved for the payment of various foreign loans while income from the latter offices goes to the central government, though the authority over both rests with the Superintendent of Customs.
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