Nanking, Sept 20.
The Ministry of Finance his referred the petition of the Shanghai Native Bankers Guild, for exemption of bank cheques fromthe Stamp Tax, to the Legislative Yuan for consider% tion. A spokesman of the Ministry seid that the Stamp 'Tex Law, having been duly enacted by the Legislative 'Yuan and promulgated by the tional Government, cannot be:00di fied merely by an order of the 'Ministry. 'The Ministry therefore has referred' the petition of the Guild. through the Executive Yuan, to the Legislative Yuan—Kuo Min,
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