The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-03-10
WILL Try HRbEAS CORPUS
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nave III thelf possession ana own as
their property contract which is
equivalent to them to three years sup
port at living and profitable wages.
And further petitioners allege and
say that the Kobe immigration Com
pany has deposited, and that there is
now to its credit in the EXchequer of
the Japanese Government one sum of
fifteen thousand yen as guarantee
fund for the faithful performance of
said contracts, and that said Kobe I'M
migration Company has a capital of
thirty thousand yen, and is a respons-
ible business house having its chief
Office at Kobe. and is entirely able to
respond in damages to your petition
ers for the fulhllment of the contracts
aforesaid.
And your petitioners further allege
and say on information and belief that
the planters and planting corporations
aforesaid signing the applications
aforesaid, upon the strength of which
the Kobe immigration Company en-
gagged your petitioners to come to Ha-
wall, are now ready and anxious to Sc
cure your petitioners as laborers on
their plantations, and your petitioners
are willing and anxious in turn to
| sign contracts with them to that eff
feet, and to proceed at once to the
| plantations of said applicants to carry
out said contracts in good faith, and
have notified the Department of For
eign Affairs of this country to that eff
! feet, but that the Hawaiian Govern
ment, 50 far from acceding to their
request, has kept them absolutely shut
out from all communications whatever
with parties ashore, and decline to do
! ought but force them out of the coun-
| try.
And your petitioners severally rep
resent that they are not IDIOTS, insane
persons, paupers, vagabonds, Grimm
ais, fugitives from justice, persons sui
fering from loathsome or dangerous
contagious diseases, stowaways, vag-
rants or persons without visible means
of support.
That ever since their arrival in the
Republic of Hawaii as aforesaid they
have been and now are unjustly re-
strained and deprived of their several
| liberties, which, they are informed and
believe, and upon such information
and belief, allege the fact to be, that
they are entitled to enjoy under and
! by reason of the treaty now existing
between His Imperial Majesty, Lmper-
or of Japan, and the Republic of Ha-
waii and the laws of the Republic of
Hawaii, by James B. Castle, collector
general of customs, and by his depu-
ties, servants and agents, under the
pretence that your petitioners are vag-
rants and persons without visible
means of support, and other pretences
to your petitioners unknown.
And your petitioners further allege
that the said James b. Castle threatens
to deport your petitioners, and to fore
IDLY send them to Japan by the steam
ship Shinshiu Maru, and will so de-
port your petitioners unless so re-
strained by an order of this court,
whereby your petitioners are threat
ened with and irreparable injury.
Wherefore your petitioners pray
that your Honor may issue writ of
habeas corpus directed to the said
James b. Castle, collector general of
customs, commanding him TO have the
several bodies of your petitioners be-
fore the Supreme Court of the Hawaii
an Islands at the next ensuing term
thereof, to-wit on Monday, March Is,
1897, at 10 o'clock n. M, to show the
cause of your petitioners detention
and restraint, and then and there TO
do and receive what shall then and
there be considered concerning them
in this behalf.
Attached to this petition are two ex-
hibits, one being blank form of the
contract of the japanese contract lab
orers, and the second, a copy of a law
passed by the japanese Government
for the protection of japanese immi-