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Stringent laws for the entire exclusion of Chinese from the United SI have been passed in the Pacific states, many of which have been decided to be unconstitutional; as is an ordinance that every male person imprisoned in the county jail should have his hair cut short; Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan, 5 Sawy. 552, Fed. Cas. No. 6,546. A statute forbidding the employment of Chinamen on public works, etc., is void, as contravening the Burlingame treaty and the 14th amendment; Baker v. Portland, 5 Sawy. 560, Fed. Cas. No. 777; In re Tiburcio Parrott, 1 Fed. 4S1. So is an act forbidding Chinamen to fish for the purpose of sale; In re Ah Chong, 2 Fed. 733. But a state law forbidding the exhumation of dead bodies and their removal, without a permit, is not invalid when applied to the removal of bodies of Chinamen who have been buried in California; it is a merely sanitary regulation; In re Wong Yung Quy, 2 Fed. 624. The convention between the United States and China of 1S94 provided that Chinese laborers or Chinese of any other class, either permanently or temporarily residing in the United States shall have for the protection of their persons and property all rights that are given by the laws of the United States to citizens of the most favored nation, excepting the right to become naturalized citi zens; 28 Stat. L. 1211. Teachers, officials, students, etc., have the privilege of coming to and residing in the United States on presentation of a certificate from their government, or the government where they last resided vis§d by the diplomatic or consular representative of the United States in the country or port whence they departed. Upon application for admission this certificate is prima facie evidence of the facts set forth therein. One cannot be deported unless there is evidence to overcome the legal effect of the certificate; Liu Hop Fong v. U. S., 209 U. S. 453, 28 Sup. Ct. 570. 52 L. Ed. SSS. The regulations of the treasury department of Dec. 8, 1900, governing the privilege of transit by Chinese laborers across the territory of the United States which require that evidence be produced which shall satisfy the collector of customs that a bona fide transit only was intended were authorized March 17, 1894 (28 Stat. L. 1211) that Chinese laborers shall continue to enjoy such privilege of transit, subject to such regulations by the government of the United States as may ^e necessary to prevent abuse of the privilege; Fok Yung Yo v. U. S., 185 U. S. 296, 22 Sup. Ct. 6S6, 46 L. Ed. 917; Lee Lung v. Patterson, 1S6 U. S. 168, 22 Sup. Ct. 795, 46 L. Ed. 1108. Chinese persons born out of the United States, remaining subjects of China, are entitled to the protection of and owe allegiance to the United States so long as they are permitted by the United States to reside here, and are subject to tbe jurisdiction thereof in tbe same sense as all other aliens residing In the United States; Yick Wo v. Hopkins,