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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH MARCH, 1885.,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 135.

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lowing further Circular relating to Chinese going to the United States of America, is od for general information.

By Command,

Monial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th March, 1885.

W. H. MARSII,

Colonial Secretary.

CIRCULAR.

CHINESE PERSONS COMING TO THE UNITED STATES.

Officers of the Customs and others :

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 14, 1885.

The following regulations relating to the rights of Chinese laborers to enter the United States are med to be in accordance with the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Chew Heong, if in error, vs. the United States, and the existing regulations relating to the admission of Chinese other than laborers into the United States are restated and modified for your information and

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1. Chinese laborers lawfully residing in the United States and who left the United States by sea for the passage of the Act of July 5, 1884, are entitled to enter the United States only upon the uction of the certificate prescribed in Section 4 of that Act, or of the certificate prescribed in Section of the Act of May 6, 1882, in case they depart by land.

2. The fourth section of the Act of May 6, 1882, as amended by the Act of July 5, 1884, scribing the certificate which shall be produced by a Chinese laborer as the only evidence permissible stablish his right of re-entry into the United States, is not applicable to Chinese laborers who, ling in this country at the date of the treaty of November 17, 1880, departed by sea before May 1582, and remained out of the United States until after July 5, 1884, and such persons may be rmitted to land without any certificate upon production of evidence satisfactory to the Collector of

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3. Chinese laborers residing in this country at the date of the treaty of November 17, 1880, or I shall have come into the same before the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of the As of May 6, 1882, and who left the United States before the passage of the Act of July 5, 1884, entitled to re-enter the United States upon the production of the certificates prescribed by Sections. 4 and 5 of the Act of May 6, 1882. Certificates issued under the Act of May 6, 1882, and Decision before the passage of said Act of 1884, are to be regarded as having the same effect as if said At of 1884 had not been passed.

1. Chinese persons other than laborers coming to the United States for the first time from China, be permitted to enter the United States only upon the production of the certificate prescribed by on 6 of the Act of July 5, 1884, such certificate being the sole evidence permissible on the part

person so producing the same to establish a right of entry into the United States.

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5. Chinese subjects, not laborers, desiring to come to the United States from countries other than a. may do so on production of a certificate corresponding to that required by Section 6 of the Act July 5, 1884, to be issued by a Chinese diplomatic or consular officer, if there be one at the port of ure, countersigned by a United States consular officer, or, if there be no such Chinese officer med at such port, on a like certificate to be issued by a United States consular officer.

6. Section 6 of the Act of 1884 does not apply to Chinese persons other than laborers lawfully in United States. Such persons are, by treaty, entitled "to come and go of their own free will and and when they leave the United States are entitled to re-enter on any evidence satisfactory to Collector that they are not Chinese laborers.

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For the convenience of such persons and of the customs officers and others, such persons desire to depart from, and return to, the United States may enter the United States on production tificate corresponding to that required by Section 6 of the Act of July 5, 1884. to be issued by Collector of Customs of the port of departure, which certificate may be prima facie evidence of a

to enter the United States.