Foreigner Owners Must Pay for Boats in Battery Creek The Ta Tao City Government is devising new ways of raising money, and it is proposed that owners of houseboats shall be duly taxed. The owner of a houseboat, lying in Battery Creek, has received the following notification from the Tungkow Collection Office. It is understood that the matter is being taken up with the consular, authorities of the recipient's nationality. matraso have Dem ressiged I have the honour to inf from the Tungkow office of the Ta Tac (Great Way) City Government's Finance Bureau, that, as from the twelfth month. Known as Ta Chiang Pu Kono must posing thro the "Communications Readjustment Fee and the "Police Fee." the rate being fie a month fora vessel having a ioni 28 feet or more, and $$ a month dor 3-vessel having a lengüh of less than 2e feet. The time limit for such pavment is February 30. The vessel will Be forcibly detained if and when the Payment of these fees is refused.
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