Tsoi Sim v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. The agreed statement of facts, and the statute referred to in the opinion of the court, are as follows: “Agreed Statement of Facts. First. That defendant, Tsoi Sim, is a female of Chinese descent, and was born In China on February 14th, 1879. Second.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. The agreed statement of facts, and the statute referred to in the opinion of the court, are as follows: “Agreed Statement of Facts. First. That defendant, Tsoi Sim, is a female of Chinese descent, and was born In China on February 14th, 1879. Second. That she came to the United States of America from China when she .was three years of age, and prior to the passage of the act of congress known as the ‘Chinese Restriction and Exclusion Act of May 6th, 1882’; that since coming to the United States, as…
1Opinion of the CourtHawley, District Judge
Appellant was arrested upon a complaint charging her with being “a Chinese manual laborer * * * now within the limits of the Northern district of California aforesaid, without the certificate of residence required by the act of congress entitled ‘An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,’ approved May 5,1892, and the act amendatory thereof, approved November 3, 1893.”
The case was heard before United States Commissioner Heacock, who found “that the said Tsoi Sim is a Chinese manual laborer, and' was born in, and is a subject of, the empire of China; that she was…
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