In re Gin Fung
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon
This was an application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Gin Fung, alleged to have been unlawfully restrained by order of the collector of Portland as a Chinese laborer unlawfully in the United States.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
A writ of habeas corpus was issued, di- . reeled -to the master of the steamer Braemar, upon a petition which alleged that Gin Fung was a Chinese merchant, doing business it) Portland, Or., and that Thomas J. Black, collector of customs of the United States for the district of Oregon, had arrested him on the charge of being a Chinese laborer unlawfully within the United States, and after a certain hearing had ordered him deported to China, and caused him to he delivered to the master of the steamer Braemar for that purpose. The defendant in the writ made answer to the…
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