Jew Sing v. United States

MAXEY, District Judge.

This case is before me on appeal from the order of the United States commissioner at El Faso deporting the appellant, Jew Sing, to China, for being unlawfully in the United States. Sing is a Chinaman, and had upon his person when arrested a certificate of residence, in the usual form, issued to him as a general merchant on the 2d day of March, 1894, at San Francisco, by O. M. Welborn, who was then collector of internal revenue of the First district of California. The certificate was admitted by the district attorney to be genuine, and to have been duly issued to the…