United States v. Hing Quong Chow’s Empirical Analysis
53 F. 233 · 1892
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2
cited by 2 later decisions
May 1906
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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““ ‘Sec. 6. And it shall be the duty of all Chinese laborers within the limits of the United States who were entitled to remain in the United States before the passage of the act to which this is an amendment to apply to the collector of internal revenue of their respective districts within six months after the passage of this act for a. certificate of residence; and any Chinese laborer within the limits of the United States, who shall neglect, fail, or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act and the act to which this is an amendment, or who. after the expiration of said six months, shall be found within the jurisdiction of the United States without such certificate of residence, shall be deemed and adjudged to be unlawfully within the United States, and may be arrested by any United States customs official, Collector of Internal Revenue, or his deputies, United States- Marshal or his deputies, and taken before a United States judge, whose duty it shall he to order that he he deported from the United States, as provided in this act and in the act to which this is an amendment, unless he shall establish clearly to the satisfaction of said judge that by reason of accident, sickness, or other unavoidable cause lie has been unable to procure his certificate, and to the satisfaction of said United States judge, and by at least one credible witness other than Chinese, that he was a resident of the United States on the fifth of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and if, u”
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