The E. W. Sinclair

CALL, District Judge.

The libel in this ease seeks to recover a penalty of $1,000 by reason, as alleged, that one Kan Tack, a Chinaman, was employed on board the vessel E. W. Sinclair; that the master negligently failed to detain said alien on board said vessel, and did permit the alien to leave the vessel at the port of Jacksonville, Fla.; that the vessel “arrived in the United States from a foreign port, and was notified by immigration authorities in writing not to allow said Chinese alien to land in the United States, and to detain said Chinese alien on board said vessel.” Exceptions were…