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In August, 1915, Tom Yuen, a Chinaman, was arrested at Los Angeles charged with having re-entered the United States in violation of section 7, Chinese Exclusion Act of September 13, 1888, being a Chinese laborer who-failed to produce to the proper officer the proper return certificate, and with having entered the United States in violation of section 36, Immigration Act February 20, 1907, c. 1134, 34 Stat. 908 (Comp. St. 1916, § 4285). Section 7, referred to, provides, among other things, that no Chinese laborer shall be permitted to re-enter the United States without producing to the proper officers the return certificate conforming to prescribed requirements. If he possesses such certificate, he may be readmitted only at the point from which he departed the United States. After Tom Yuen’s arrest there was an investigation before the immigration authorities, and it resulted that finally it was found that he had entered the United States from Mexico near El Paso, Tex., without inspection, about August 1, 1915, and re-entered in violation of section 7 of the exclusion act of September 13, 1888. The Secretary of Labor issued a warrant of deportation. Tom Yuen then applied for a writ…