United States v. Seabury

DE HAVEN, District Judge.

The indictment in this case charges the defendant with the crime of knowingly bringing within the United States, on a vessel of which he was master, three Chinese laborers, and permitting them to be landed in the United States, in violation of section 2 of the act of May 6, 1882, c. 126, 22 Stat. 59, as amended by the act of July 5,1884, c. 220, 23 Stat. 115 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1306]. The section is as follows:

“Sec. 2. That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the United States on such vessel, and land, or attempt to land, or permit to be…