In re Ah Ping

This is an appeal from the district court. The petitioner is a Chinese subject of the Mongolian race, a merchant, riot a Chinese laborer, and a member of the old and well-known firm of Hop Sing & Co., doing a mercantile business in the city and county of San Francisco, of which firm he has been á member since 1877. He resided in the United States continuously for the period of eight years prior to his temporary visit to China. In 1879 he departed from California for the purpose of visiting China, and returned to the United Slates on November 30, 1881, before the passage of the original…