This excerpt is from a paper read at the World's Fire Insurance Congress at the World's Fair in June of 1893.…

This is a letter written by Hong Sling in 1900 to the Chinese Ambassador in Washington. It was in an attachment from the ambassador to Secretary of State John Hay, Oct. 20,…

This is a scan of the original Chinese Exclusion Act document, originally written December 5, 1881, and later approved on May 6, 1882.

For more information about the Chinese Exclusion Act, see the description for the Chinese Exclusion Act…

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