Fees in Nantao and the Settlement Opposed In connect of business in Nantao, about 100 proprietors of local butcher shops held a meeting December 12 in their guild and passed the following resolutions:—(Q) That the new system whereby the Kiamzsu Finance Bureau levy $0.20 per pig slaughtered. be opposed. (Hitherto the butchers paid the authorities "a lun sum per month for the slaughtering permit.)
(2) That all butcher shops suspend business to-day as a protest against the tax.
(2) That the collection by the Health Bureas of the Shanghi inspection fee on each pig be opposed.
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