Assignment of Duplicate Certificate of Residence to Chu Fong with Enclosed Certificate of Residence
6/24/1901
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EXPLANATIONThe persons requiring Certificates of Residence, under the provisions of the Act of Congress of May 5, 1892, as amended by the Act of November 3, 1893, are limited to Chinese laborers.
All classes of skilled and unskilled manual laborers, including Chinese persons employed in mining, fishing, huckstering, peddling, laundrymen, or those engaged in taking drying, or otherwise preserving shell or other fish for home consumption or exportation, shall be classed as laborers. A person to be exempted from the operation of this law as a merchant must be a person engaged in buying and selling merchandise at a fixed place of business, which business is conducted in his name, and who, during the time he claims to be engaged as a merchant, does not engage in the performance of any manual labor except such as is necessary in the conduct of his business as such merchant.
This application may be used by persons other than laborers who may desire to obtain certificates of residence under the Act of May 5, 1892, as amended by the Act of November 3, 1893.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
National Archives Identifier: 19086723
Full Citation: Assignment of Duplicate Certificate of Residence to Chu Fong with Enclosed Certificate of Residence; 6/24/1901; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/assignment-of-duplicate-certificate-of-residence-to-chu-fong-with-enclosed-certificate-of-residence, April 29, 2025]Rights: Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions. Learn more on our privacy and legal page.
