In re O'Sullivan

The above-named petitioners, being Irish immigrants, arrived at this port on the fourth of Juno, 1887, on board the City of Chester. They have been brought before the court upon a writ of habeas corpus, procured upon a petition averring that they are illegally detained by the commissioners of emigration. The return to the writ states that they are held under the provisions of the act of congress of August 8, 1882, (22 St. at Large, 214,) upon an order made by the commissioners on the ninth of June, after an examination into the circumstances of the immigrants, declaring that they were “likely…