TOM HONG v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 310, 311, 313.

193 U.S. 517 (1904)

TOM HONG, alias HOM POE, v. UNITED STATES. TOM DOCK, alias HOM DOCK, v. UNITED STATES. LEE KIT v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 21, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Terence J. McManus, with whom Mr. Frank S. Black and Mr. Russell H. Landale were on the brief, for appellants. Mr. Max J. Kohler, by leave of the court, filed a brief in aid of appellants on behalf of the Chinese Charitable and Benevolent Association of New York.

Mr. Solicitor General Hoyt for the United States.1


MR. JUSTICE DAY, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The contention of the appellants that their right to remain in the United States is enlarged by the treaty with China of December, 1894, considered with § 1 of the act of April 29, 1902, c. 641, 32 Stat. 176, continuing all laws then in force so far as the same are not inconsistent with treaty obligations in its effect upon the...

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