Chinese Butchers Trying to Get New Tax Cut Down was decided at a meeting of local Chinese butchers that the sum of $40,000 should be offered to Gen. Yen Chun-yang, the local Chinese Police Commissioner, in, Viou of the authorities' proposal enforce the levy of a cattle tax for the payment of the members of the Woosung and Shanghai Constabulary who have not been paid their salaries for two months. order to overcome the latter difficulty, it will be recalled, the authorities propose to tax' all cattle slaughtered here.
Tt was decided that $34,000) should be, paid by the pork butchers, and' the balance of $6,000 by' the butchers selling beef and mutton.
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