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In re ALIANO.
In re VARANA.

Circuit Court, S. D. New York.

September 8, 1890.

IMMIGRATION—CONVICTS—WHO ARE.

An immigrant who has been convicted in the country from which he came of an assault with a deadly weapon, and has served the term of imprisonment imposed, is a convict, within the meaning of the act regulating immigration.

At Law.

A. C. Astarita, for relators.

Abram J. Rose, Asst. U. S. Dist. Atty.

LACOMBE, Circuit Judge. The relators, by their own admission, were found guilty in the country from which they came of an assault with a deadly weapon. They were sentenced to two and four months' imprisonment, respectively, and have served their terms. They are clearly convicts, within the meaning of the act regulating immigration.

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