Chy Lung
v. Freeman (1875)
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The commissioner has but to go aboard a vessel filled with passengers ignorant of
our language and our laws, and without trial or hearing or evidence, but from the external
appearances of persons with whose former habits he is unfamiliar, to point with his finger to twenty,
as in this case, or a hundred if he chooses, and say to the master, ‘These are idiots, these are
paupers, these
are convicted criminals, these are lewd women, and these others are
debauched women….’