MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error here is a Chinese woman who, arriving at San Francisco from China, was not permitted to land in that city, by reason of the acts of Congress of May 6, 1882, and the amendatory act of 1884, and, being forcibly kept on board the vessel, sued out a writ of habeas corpus to obtain her release.
On a hearing in the Circuit Court of the United States, it was ordered that she be returned...
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