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 ■626 PEDEBAL EEPOETEB. �from a grave, vault, or other receptacle or burial place, the body or remains of a deceased person, ■without a permit therefor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be pun- ished by fine not less than $50 nor more than |500, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty •days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Nor shall it be lawful to receive such body, bones, or remains, on any vehicle, car, barge, boat, ship, Bteamship, steamboat, or vessel, for transportation in or from this state, unless the permit to transport the same is first received and is retained in evidence by the owner, driver, agent, superintendent, or master of the vehicle, car, or vessel. �"Sec, 4. Any person or persons who shall move or trans- port, or cause to be moved or transported, on or through the streets or highways of any oity or town, or city and county, of this state, the body or remains of a deceased person which shall have been disinterred or exhumed, without a permit as described in section 2 of this act, shall be guilty of a misde- meanor, and be punishable as provided in section 3 of this act. �"Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be taken to apply to the removal of the remains of deceased persons from one place of interment to another cemetery or place of inter- ment within the same county ; provided, that no permit shall l>e issued for the disinterment or removal of any body, unless such body bas been buried for two years." Stat. 1877-8, 1050. �The petitioner, Wong Yung Quy, is, and Wong Wai Toon uras, in his life-time, a subject of the emperor of China, of the Mongolian race, residing in the United States. Wong Wai Toon died in January, 1876, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, a public cemetery of the city and county of San Francisco. In October, 1879, petitioner, a relative of the deceased, having complied with ail the provisions of said act, «xcept the payment of $10 required by said act to be paid for an exhumation and removal permit, demanded from the proper authorities permission to remove the remains of said ����