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Show PRODUCERS PAY TAG j TAX UNDER PROTEST Farmers from whom collections are being be-ing made under the ordinance requiring the taking nut of producers', number plates are in many instances paying the fee under un-der protest. Some of them apepar to have been advised that the ordinance Is unconstitutional. The city license department depart-ment is proceeding with the collection of the fees, however. The ordinance was recently enacted. The purpose is to establish a distinction between producers who sell their own products and regular peddlers. The producers pro-ducers get off with the payment of the $1 registration fee, while the peddlers are required to pay a yearly license of 525. The producers, however, must make affidavit affi-davit that they intend selling only their own products. This prohibits them from encroaching on the business of the peddlers ped-dlers by using purchased produce in supplying sup-plying the trade. |