Its first paragraph continued all the laws then in force prohibiting and regulating the coming into this country of Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent for a further period of ten years. The rest of the Geary law provides for the registration of all Chinese in the United States and the issuing to them of certificates of residence. In case they failed to register. they were to be deported to the country of which they were subjects or citizens. The Chinese in this country f6ught the registration provisions of the Geary law in the courts. but finally the Supreme Court sustained its constitutionality. In the meantime. the Chinese. with few exceptions. had refused to register. and the limitations fixed by the Geary law upon the period within which they were
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