applies to Chinese persons who left the country before the passage of the act, and afterwards seek to return. (United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Cir cuit, California, 1895, Lai Moy v. United States, 66 Federal Reporter, 955.)

Imprisonment upon arrest and conviction for crime is not a sufficient excuse for failure to register within the time limited by above acts providing for the deportation of Chinese laborers who fail to register themselves within the periods provided by said acts, unless prevented by accident, sickness, or other unavoidable cause. (United States District Court, District of Oregon, 1895, United States v. Ah Poing, 69 Federal Reporter, 972.)

ACTS OF 1891-92, CHAPTER 352.—Hours of labor—Public works.

[See case of United States v. Ollinger, page 1264, ante.]

ACTS OF 1893-94, CHAPTER 301.-Decision of immigration officers excluding aliens to be final. (a)

The power of Congress to exclude aliens altogether from the United States, or to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which they may come to this country, and to have its declared policy in that respect enforced exclusively through executive officers without judicial intervention, having been settled by previous adjudications, it is now decided that a statute passed in execution of that power is applicable to an alien who has acquired a commercial domicile within the United States, but who, having voluntarily left the country, although for a temporary purpose, claims the right under some law or treaty to reenter it. (United States Supreme Court, 1895, Lem Moon Sing v. United States, 158 U.S., 538.)

[See also case of United States v. Loo Way, page 1352, ante.] a See Law, page 1249.