United States v. Lui Lim

CAVANAH, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States Commissioner directing the deportation of Lui Lim from the United States to the Republic of China upon the charge that he is a Chinese person and a laborer within the United States without a certificate of residence, in violation of the Chinese Exclusion Act approved May 5, 1892, § 6, as amended by the Act of November 3, 1893, §§ 1, 2 (8 USCA § 287). ,

The Treaty between the United States and China concluded November 17, 1880 (22 Stat. 826), gave to the United States the right to regulate, prohibit, and suspend…