The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-03-10
WILL TRY HABEAS CORPUS ROUTE

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in due form and as provided by law tp
the Board of immigration for leave to
import such laborers, said applications
being as follows:
For the Makee Sugar Company, 100
laborers.
For T. II. Davies & Company, 80
laborers.
For Waianae Sugar Company 80 lab
I drers.
Hawaiian Sugar Company, GO labor
erS.
That said board of immigration re-
| iected said applications on the grouad
that they were not accompanied by
! bonds whereby said applicants obi
| gated themselves to import into the
Hawaiian Islands within eighteen
months from the date of said applica-
tions ten white laborers to every one
| hundred Asiatics called for by said APP
| plications, which bond is unauthorized
by law, and is an illegal eXaction on
the part of the Board of Immigration.
And petitioners on information and
belief allege that said Board of Immi-
grafton unjustly and contrary to law
and their duty and obligation refused
to consider said applications for the
sole and only reason that the same
We're unaccompanied by bonds in form
and to the effect aforesaid
And petitioners further allege on in
| formation and belief that owing to
some oral assurances given by j. \.
King, Minister of the Interior, and a
member of the Board of immigration
to \. G. NJ. Robertson, attorney in fact
! for the Kobe Immigration Company.
residing in said Honolulu, that bonds
might be filed later an order was for
warded to Japan for 22O Immigrants,
and that the Kobe Immigration Com
pany secured your petitioners to fill
said order, your petitioners believing
and understanding at the time of
consenting to come to the Hawaiian
Islands that they were coming pursu-
ant to the laws of the Hawaiian Is
/ lands and sad treaty between Japan
and Hawaii.
And petitioners never believed or
1 understood that there would be any
question as to their right to land, but
/ sold out their possessions, gave up
| their then occupations and embarked
from Japan arriving in Hawaii as
aforesaid.
Japan, entered into Il contract in writ
ing with the Kobe Immigration Com
pany; that said contracts are uniform
and the same through. a copy in the
japanese language and a translation
thereof in the English language being
hereto attached, marked respectively
exhibits ~ and "B" and made a part
hereof
And petitioners allege that they and
each and every one of them have now
in their possession contract similar
in form and purport TO the form set
forth in exhibit a., and that the con
tracts in their possession aforesaid
have been duly executed according to
the laws of Japan both by the Kobe
immigration Company and by the i'm
migrants.
That upon the 18th day of April, 1896,
the japanese parliament passed a law
for the protection of emigrants, which,
Inn, al ali al lnN
at all the times hereinabove referred
to, said act being entitled: The law
20. Law for the Protection of Emil
grants" \ copy of which law in the
japanese langu ge, and translation
thereof in the English language, being
hereto attached, marked respectively
exhibits &c" and "D'', and made part
hereof.
Petitioners allege and say that the
Icontract made between them and the
said Kobe immigration Company as
aforesaid, and the form thereof, has
received the official sanction of the
Foreign Department of the Empire of
Japan, pursuant to law, and said i'm
migrants sailed with the sanction OF
said Government and under is protec'
ton.
And petitioners further allege that
under said contracts between them,
selves and the Kobe Immigration Com
pany, and under the law aforesaid OF
the Empire of Japan, they and each
one of them are entitled to demand oi
: the said Kobe immigration Company
that said immigration Company fur
: nish them and each of them for a per
= iod of thirty-siX months from the dat,
> of landing in Hawaii, employment a
: wages and upon the terms set fortl
in said contracts, or, in default there
= of, are entitled to demand and receiv,
: of the said Kobe immigration Com
many full DANA and pnn1npnS1 tipt