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The Geary Act was a United States law that extended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by adding onerous new requirements. It was written by California Representative Thomas J. Geary and was passed by Congress on May 5, 1892 .
Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U.S. 698 (1893), decided by the United States Supreme Court on May 15, 1893, was a case challenging provisions in Section 6 of the Geary Act of 1892 that extended and amended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The provisions in question required Chinese in the United States to obtain certificates of residency ...
The case began in 1892 when Wong Wing and three other Chinese nationals were arrested for unlawful presence in the United States, violating the Geary Act. A commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Michigan sentenced the four men to 60 days imprisonment at hard labor, after which they would be deported to China.
The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the US–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the US to suspend Chinese immigration. The act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed and strengthened in 1892 with the Geary Act and made permanent in 1902. These laws attempted to stop all Chinese ...
The legislation, which was set to expire after a decade, was then extended through the Geary Act. And while the measure was repealed on Dec. 17, 1943 with the Magnuson Act, immigration was still ...
1892 Geary Act: Extended and strengthened the Chinese Exclusion Act. Pub. L. 52–60: 1893 (No short title) Required additional information about individuals entering the United States. 1903 Immigration Act of 1903 (Anarchist Exclusion Act) Added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes
Representative Geary and wrote and sponsored the Geary Act, a United States law passed by Congress on May 5, 1892, that extended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. It added onerous new requirements, such as requiring every Chinese resident of the United States to carry a resident permit at all times.
Chinese Exclusion Act – (United States) China exclusion policy of NASA, 2011 – (United States) Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 – Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 – Definitions of whiteness in the United States; Eugenics in the United States; Geary Act; Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965; Magnuson Act