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Page viii
... legislative bodies of the United States and Australia had when they undertook the work of legislating on this ques ... legislation next session and I venture to express the hope that all classes of persons , those favorable to Chinese ...
... legislative bodies of the United States and Australia had when they undertook the work of legislating on this ques ... legislation next session and I venture to express the hope that all classes of persons , those favorable to Chinese ...
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... the character of a population , small or large , who would say it is a thing of which a statesman is not bound to take note ? advantage of con- others . A searching and complete examin- ation . United States legislation A MINER'S VIEW . XV.
... the character of a population , small or large , who would say it is a thing of which a statesman is not bound to take note ? advantage of con- others . A searching and complete examin- ation . United States legislation A MINER'S VIEW . XV.
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... legislation against Chinese laborers . California , which had no existence thirty years ago , a State as large as France . Development of country . The forty - niners . A railway a necessity . The Chinaman comes forward as a laborer ...
... legislation against Chinese laborers . California , which had no existence thirty years ago , a State as large as France . Development of country . The forty - niners . A railway a necessity . The Chinaman comes forward as a laborer ...
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... legislation provided that a license of $ 3 a month should be levied on foreigners working in placer and quartz mining . It also provided that companies employing foreigners should pay the tax , and that foreigners not paying the license ...
... legislation provided that a license of $ 3 a month should be levied on foreigners working in placer and quartz mining . It also provided that companies employing foreigners should pay the tax , and that foreigners not paying the license ...
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... legislation . Prior to the legislation excluding Chinese labor , no movement to encourage white immigration was made , " because we had all the labor we could utilize . But the moment Congress was invoked to stop the influx of Chinese ...
... legislation . Prior to the legislation excluding Chinese labor , no movement to encourage white immigration was made , " because we had all the labor we could utilize . But the moment Congress was invoked to stop the influx of Chinese ...
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Page 399 - Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, students, merchants or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United States shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.
Page 367 - States at which the person named therein shall arrive, and afterward produced to the proper authorities of the United States whenever lawfully demanded, and shall be the sole evidence permissible on the part of the person so producing the same to establish a right of entry into the United States; but said certificate may be controverted and the facts therein stated disproved by the United States authorities.
Page 399 - That from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended...
Page cxli - The Government of the Dominion undertake to secure the commencement simultaneously, within two years from the date of the Union, of the construction of a railway from the Pacific towards the Rocky Mountains, and from such point as may be selected, east of the Rocky Mountains, towards the Pacific, to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of Canada; and further, to secure the completion of such railway within ten years from the date of the Union.
Page 367 - ... hucksters, peddlers or those engaged in taking, drying or otherwise preserving shell or other fish for home consumption or exportation.
Page 367 - The captain or master of any vessel arriving in the United States, or any of the territories thereof, from any foreign place whatever, at the same time that he delivers a manifest of the cargo, and if there be no cargo, then at the time of making report or entry of the...
Page 368 - That hereafter no state court or court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship ; and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Page 366 - ... shall produce to such master before going on board such vessel, and shall produce to the collector of the port in the United States at which such vessel shall arrive, the evidence hereinafter in this act required of his being one of the laborers in this section mentioned...
Page 375 - The Parliament and Government of Canada shall have all powers necessary or proper for performing the obligations of Canada or of any Province thereof, as part of the British Empire, towards foreign countries, arising under treaties between the Empire and such foreign countries.
Page cxli - And the Government of British Columbia agree to convey to the Dominion Government, in trust, to be appropriated in such manner as the Dominion Government may deem advisable in furtherance of the construction of the said Railway, a similar extent of public lands along the line of Railway, throughout its entire length in British Columbia, not.