United States v. Chu Chee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. This was a proceeding for the deportation of the defendants, two Chinese boys, aged, respectively, 13 and 15 years, horn in the empire of China, and brought to this country in May, 1896, landing at Port Townsend, in the district of Washington, as students, upon the presentation of the following certificates* * “Consulate of the United States, .Hong XCong, April 9, 1896. “I, Wm.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. This was a proceeding for the deportation of the defendants, two Chinese boys, aged, respectively, 13 and 15 years, horn in the empire of China, and brought to this country in May, 1896, landing at Port Townsend, in the district of Washington, as students, upon the presentation of the following certificates* * “Consulate of the United States, .Hong XCong, April 9, 1896. “I, Wm. E. Hunt, consul of the United States of America for the colony of Hong Kong and its dependencies, hereby certify that two Chinese youths,…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge
The defendants were arrested under the provisions of the act of congress entitled “An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” approved May 5, 1892 (27 Stat. 25, c. 60), as amended by the act of November 3, 1893 (28 Stat. 7, c. 11). Section 1 of the first-named act provides:
“That all laws now in force prohibiting and regulating the coming into this country of Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent are hereby continued in force for a period of ten years from the passage of this act.”
Section 3 provides:
“That any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent…
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