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Authorities in casos of criminal or sivil liability".
can be seen from the wording of this mandate of the Consti-
tution, the entrance into the country was not prohibited
e part
Tome
thore-
even on te
or sick persons, and the showers of the
Company alu not carry any sick person, and if that prafext was adopted it was not legal, but only intonaca to exclude
the Chinese prasengers who arrived in auch sta mors, by violating the Treaty of Friendship with the Chinese Na- tion, na ovon the Trenty of Navigation which is in terce with H.B.J's Government, by the illegal exception which was only taken against the steamers of the Britich Corporation
denominateu "The China Co. Jurcial Stowship Co. Ita"..
oven
The mort conclusive proof of these flagrant violations - gainst the Political Constitution of Hexico and the Treatie of Friendship, to coree and Havigation which it has cole-
And brated with the Britch Tapire sad the Chinese Netlon,
against the contract with the Company I represent, 18
that the Department of the Interior of Mexico, convinced that it hud committed ti 230 flagrant violations, decided to introduce before the Congre.c of the he.lcan Union, the Im- migration Law and the arenacent or Article 11 of the Pede-
ral Constitution. Chase were passed in the pear 1906 af-
ter the oxecution of the acts of which I complain, and wit the object of finding in this was a legal basis for the 8x-
cluzion subsequently made; and I say subse pently, because
they could not serve a ground for the exclusions already made, secing that there is no law, in any part of the civi- lized world which has a retr active effact, and thin la a
racxim so generally adopted that it requires no asmonstra-
tions or discussion.
In order not to weary Y.E. I enclose a copy of a
Menorial which the representative of this dunguny filed in
India
ad
Met
the