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In the United States District Court, District of Wash-

ington', Northern Division.

e Matter of the Application of T.

MASAKA for a Writ of Habeas V

In the

YAM...

Corpus. j

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus.

The petition of T. Yamasaka respectfully shows:

That the said T. Yamasaka is unlawfully imprisoned,

detained, confined, and restrained of his liberty by

Samuel 0. Walker, representing' himself to be an immi-

gration inspector acting under and by authority of the

Secretary of the Treasury, at the county jail in the city

of Seattle, county of King, and State of Washington.

That the said imprisonment, detention, confinement,

and restraint are illegal, and that the illegality thereof

consists in this, to wit, your petitioner is a Japanese and

in the city of Seattle, King county, Washington, on June

21, 1899, while he was at libert}' and committing no crime

against the constitution or laws of the United States or

of the State of Washington, he was apprehended by the

said Samuel 0. Walker, representing himself to be immi-

gration inspector as aforesaid, and charged with being a

pauper and unlawfully within the United States by rea-

son thereof. That he has been in the United States since

December, 1S9S, and has not during the said time, or at

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