I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the Castration Fee of the Male Horse and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This twenty-first day of the second month of the twenty-second year of Showa (February 21, 1947) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Agriculture and Forestry KIMURA Kozaemon Imperial Ordinance No. 57 Any person who applies for castration of his male horse pursuant to the Horse Castration Law shall pay a castration fee. A castration fee shall be sixty yen per head. A castration fee shall be paid by a revenue stamp. Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.