IMMIGRATION
THE AMERICAN LAWS.
IMPORTANT DECISION
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Received Sent. 25, lo a.m. VANCOUVER, Sept. 24. At Seattle twenty-three Chinese, who were denied admittance by the immigration authorities, were granted writs of habeas corpus by Federal Judge Leterer, who held that the 1924 United States immigration law does not abrogate the provisions of treaties between China and the United States. This decision is the first judicial interpretation of the exclusion provisions in the new Act relating to Chinese, and marks the success of Chinese efforts to make secure the privileges enjoyed under treaty provisions during the past forty years.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 September 1924, Page 5
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102IMMIGRATION Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 September 1924, Page 5
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