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 209 U.S. Staremit of the Caec. being subject in respect thereof to such laws as are applicable to other foreigners." We concur 'with the conclusions of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, and it judgment is. HALLOWELL v. UNITED STATES. CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. No. 175.  March 12, 1908.--Deeideal Mareh 2, 1908. The authority given by i 6 of the Judiciary Act of March 3, 1891, 26 Star. 826, to the Circuit Cotrt of Appeals, to certify propitions of law to this court, cannot be used for the pu rpcee of sending to this court the whole case for ite consideration and decision. A certificate which does not set forth the propositions of law, &early stated, which nmy be an- swered without rcfercnce to all the facts, but which sets forth mixed qnstions of law and fact requiring this court to construe acts of Con- grczs, and, in the light of all the tstimony, to determine what should be the judgment of the lower court, is defective and must he dismissed. C., B. & Q. Ry. Co. v. Williams, 205 U.S. 444, 454. Tis case is here upon certified questions by the judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals. The certified questions and the statement of the case which precedes them are as follows: "The indictment ws returned November 16, 1905, and charged that the defendant, on August 1, 1905, in the District of Nebraska, introduced whiskey and. other intoxicating liquors into the Indian country, 'to wit, into and upon the Omaha Indian Reservation, a reservation set apart for the exclusive use nd benefit of certain tribes of the Omaha Indians.' The ddendant entered-a plea of not guilty and the case was sub- mitted to a jury upon the .following agreed statement:

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