BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE JAPANESE. RESTRICTION ACT INOPERATIVE.
AN APPEAL PROBABLE. 0/ Telegraph.— Presa Annotation.— Copytight. VICTORIA (8.C.), 241h February. Chief Justice Hunter, speaking at Victoria, declared that tho Act recently passed by British Columbia dealing with tho question of immigration is inoperative as regards Japanese, because it is against the Anglo-Japaneso treaty. An appeal to the Supremo Court and tho Privy Council is foreshadowed, and meanwhile tho Act recently passed by the British Columbia Legislature cannot bo onforced.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 47, 25 February 1908, Page 7
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