Page:United States Reports, Volume 209.djvu/483

 09 U.S. Opinion o the arate findings made by the commioner and the oHn! student's certificate o! the defendant and the translation thereof, with all indorsements and certificates thereon under which the defendant was admitted into and entereel the Uni- ted States. The commissioner's transcript shows: On November 23, 1904, the defendant was brou,ht before the commissioner, entered a plea of not guilty, and the hear- ing was continued to.December 29, 1904, when witnesses were examined for the United States and for the defendant. Their names are iven, but their testimony is not set out. On the same day (December 29, 1904) defendant was adjudgsd ,uilty and ordered to be deported, and on tkat day defendant ap- pealed. to the District Court and gave bond for his appearance in that court. This transcript was duly certified and indorsed, filed January 9, '1905, by "R. C. Hoyt, Clerk," and the com- missioner filed additional and separate findings bearin date December 30, 1904, as follows: "That the said Liu Hop is a Chinese manual laborer, and was born in and is a subject to the (Emperor) of China; that he was found within the limits of the United States, to wit, in the city of Omaha, Douas County, State of Nebraska, in the District of Nebraska, on the 23d day of November, A.D. 1904, and that when he was so found as aforesaid, the said Liu Hop was in possession of a certain certificate, proper in form, No. 179, registered in book three, folio 164, issued by the Colonial Secretary of Macau Province, by authority of H. E. Governor of said province, and dated the 17th day of May, 1899, which said certificate, among other things, recites as follows: "' By order of H. E. the Governor, I grant this passport to a Chinaman Liu Hop, bachelor, natural, and residing in Macua, student of Chinese literature for over 4 years, being his pro- lessor Lu-ioc-po, living in Rua dos !fercadores, No. 180, to go to the United States of America, in order to study there the English language and Europcan sciences, and to live in the company of his brother Eiu-eng-Fun, r,-,er of the firm

�