United States v. Chong Sam
District Court, E.D. Michigan
At Law. The appellant was arrested at Port Huron, July 9, 1891, while attempting to enter the United States, and brought before United States Commissioner Harris, who found that he was unlawfully in the United States, and ordered that he be removed to China.
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At Law. The appellant was arrested at Port Huron, July 9, 1891, while attempting to enter the United States, and brought before United States Commissioner Harris, who found that he was unlawfully in the United States, and ordered that he be removed to China. Appellant was remanded to jail to await deportation, and within 10 days from his conviction took this appeal to the judge of this court, under the provisions of section 13 of the act of congiess of September 13, 1888, entitled “An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States.” The commissioner made no recurn of…
1Opinion of the CourtSwan, J.
The legislation involved in this inquiry is mainly contained in three acts of congress, entitled, respectively, “An act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese,” approved May 6, 1882, (22 U. S. St. at Large, 58;) an act “ To amend an act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese, approved May 6, 1882,” approved July 5, 1884, (23 U. S. St. at Large, 115;) and “An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States,” approved September 13,1888, (25 U. S. St. at Large, 476.) These statutes, with the act entitled “An act, a supplement to an act…
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