United States v. Chin Sing

Citations

• 153 F. 590
• 1907 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 291

Syllabus

<p>Aliens — Chinese Exclusion Acts — Minos Childeen of Chinese Merchant. ...</p> <p>The fact that a Chinese person, who as shown by the uncontradicted evidence entered the United States in 1898, when a minor 14 or 15 years old, ’ his father being at the time a merchant engaged in business in San Francisco, did not have a certificate under section 6, Act May 6, 1882, c. 126, 22 Stat. 60,, as amended by Act July 5, 1884, c. 220, 23 Stat 116 [U. S. Comp. St. l901, p. 1307], does not raise any presumption that bis entry was unlawful, no such certificates being then required under the decisions of the Supreme Court to entitle the wives and children of Chinese merchants residing in this country to entry.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 2, Aliens, §§ 75, 81.],</p>