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Chinese Exclusion Act: Section 8: Reporting Chinese Passengers Summary

When Do We Get To See Those Certificates?

  • As soon as a ship's captain gets to port, he better have a list of all his Chinese passengers, and they better have certificates.
  • The captain has to swear it's all true, or he's guilty of fraud.