...UNITED STATES (143 U. 8., 457), quoted, page 81: In this case it was held that the act of February 26, 1885, "to prohibit the importation and migration of...and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia" (23 Stat. 332, c. 104),...

...minister or rector. The question was whether such a contract was in violation of the statute forbidding the " importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States." lt was conceded that the case was within the letter of the statute, but...

...to the act was gathered partially, at least, from its title. Xow, the title of this act is "An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners...and aliens, under contract or agreement to perform labor in the I'nlted States, its Territories, ami the District of Columbia." Obviously the thought...

...477, c. 141. "An Act to regulate Immigration," approved August 3, 1882, 22 Stat. 214, o. 376. "An Act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners...and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia," approved February 26, 1885,...

...importation and migration of for- tract laboreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States. Its Territories, and the District of Columbia," and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, are hereby extended to and made applicable to the...

...essentially different from the one before us because, after a recital in its title that it is "An Act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract," COUBT OF APPEAL 1913 April 22. ASHMORK V. BRITISH etc., it proceeds, in the second and third sections...

...*. That the act approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners...and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia," be, and the same is hereby,...

...favor of the court's conclusion that a new corporation was formed." 0 Where an act was entitled "An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to labor," etc., the court was of opinion that Congress clearly had no thought of excluding persons whose...

...of no effect [.] [23 Stat. L. 332.] This is from an Act of Feb. 26, 1885, ch. 164, entitled "An Act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners...and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia." Apparently it has not been...

...unlawful to pay the transportation or to encourage in any way the immigration into this country of aliens under contract or agreement to perform labour in the United States. Subsequent amendments to this law in 1887, 1888, 1891 and 1893, 1894, 1895, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904,...