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 Merchants.

A merchant is one who buys and sells goods and merchandise. He may own the whole business or he may have partners. He may be a manufacturer when the goods he makes are sold as part of the business he is doing. The Chinese as so described are entitled to leave and return to the United States.

Chinese who own interests in fruit canneries and are employed as foremen or overseers are skilled laborers. They are not merchants.

Chinese having interests in mercantile firms, but engaged in laundries, gambling establishments, restaurants, and like places, or as peddlers, are not merchants.

Merchants are required to establish that they are owners of the business claimed, or are partners in the firm who owns the business. If partners, they must give proof of the amounts actually paid in to become partners, and the times on which the payments were made. If they were residents of the United States during the period of registration, and failed to register, they must show the reason for such failure.

A Chinese merchant who failed to register during the period of registration, and since became a laborer, is entitled to remain in the United States.

Every Chinese merchant who lives within the United States, and who wishes to go abroad and return, must show by affidavit his actual ownership in an established mercantile business in the United States; the amount of his interest in such business; the character of his personal employment in conducting such business; and that for at least one year before the making of such affidavit he was engaged in no manual labor except as was necessary to carry on such business. The affidavit must be signed and sworn to by two witnesses who are not Chinese. It must be in duplicate, and photograph of applicant attached to each.

The testimony of these witnesses must show conclusively and specifically the kind of work the Chinese has done during the entire year, and that he has performed than no other manual labor that specifically set forth.

商家

凡華人有開設舖店買賣貨物或開設廠口所製造之貨物係屬於賣賣者可稱爲華商倘其人 離美應准復囘

凡華人有開設菓廠或有該廠之生意股份自當管工此乃精巧之工人不得謂爲華 商倘其雖有股本在買賣商店並兼涉洗衣館賭博館大餐館以及沿門負販等生意皆不得稱之爲華 商

凡華商所開設某店或在某店沾佔 [sic]有生意之股份所値股本銀若干創於何時湏要報明確據若該 華商居美不曾註册須指明其因何不註册之原由

凡華商不曾註册後遇生意不前迫要變作華工 亦應准其居美

凡應 居美之華商若欲出境 遊厯或囘唐然後返美 所做之護照必湏繕備 兩張每貼該商之原照 相頭有可信之美人証 人二名矢誓作証表明 該華商未回唐之先係 做買賣生意已越一年 之久除合宜辦理其自 己生意事務外不曾做 過手作工夫