In re Li Foon

LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.

Since the facts are all set forth tersely in stipulation, it will not be necessary to restate them. Tne proceedings under which the petitioner is temporarily held till he can be removed from the United States were instituted under section 12 of the Laws of 1882, as amended by the Laws of 1884, which provides that “any Chinese person found unlawfully within the United States shall be caused to be removed therefrom to the country from whence he came.” He was brought before a United States commissioner, who found that he was a person not lawfully entitled to be or to…