United States v. Douglas

This is an information against the master of the British bark Erne, for bringing and landing within the port of Boston one Ah Shong, alleged to be a Chinese laborer, contrary to section 2 of the act of congress of May 6, 1882, which makes it a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment for the master of any vessel to “knowingly bring within the United States on such vessel, and to land or permit to be landed, any Chinese laborer from any foreign port or place.”

*635The defendant has pleaded guilty to the information, subject to the opinion of the court whether, upon certain facts which the…