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Lee Sing Wot v. Charles M. Bradshaw. Letter from Robert J. Stevens

 

Paper of the nature of a vise under Act. of July 1884

To the Purser of the S.S. Olympian

I do hereby vertify that Wong Quin of the Firm of Yee Yuen & Co Chinese merchant, of this City came to the consulate this day and exhibited to me a certificate of Liang Tiny Tsan, Imperial Chinese Consul General at San Francisco, dated April 6th 1889, with request to the wife of Lee Sing Wot; (whose photograph & that of her husband is thereto attached) now living in this City, who, he states, wishes to join her husband in San Francisco

I also certify that I believe this statement to be true; that the certificate of the Chinese Consul General is in all respects genuine and that Lee Sing Wots wife, is, as stated, therein, of the exempt class, and entitled to come to the United States

Given under my hand and the seal of this Consulate at Victoria B.C. this eleventh day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred & eighty nine

Robt J Stevens

Consul of the United States

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Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Lee Sing Wot v. Charles M. Bradshaw. Letter from Robert J. Stevens.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0061.001

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