Bayard and from the Department of State instructing ir. Withers. as the United States consul. to issue certificates to Chinese subjects of the exempted class who desired to depart from the port of HongKong to the United States. and under those instructions Mr. Withers did proceed to issue hundreds and perhaps thousands of certificates. as I am informed. and under which a class of Chinese subjects -whose immigration to this country was prohibited by existing law were permitted to enter the port of San Francisco. After a time the President of the United States and Mr. Bayard awoke to the fact that this circular of the Treasury Department which they were attempting to enforce and which they had modified in July. 1885. was in direct violation of law. was not warranted by the restriction acts. and what did they do?
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