with China of March 17, 1894, 28 Stat. 1210, and of the later legislation reenacting the Exclusion Act. Article III provided that Chinese subjects entitled to admission might "produce a certificate from their Government or the Government where they last resided." The very fact that it was thought necessary to incorporate this provision in the treaty is a recognition that the preexisting legislation did not have that effect. The treaty expired by limitation in 1904 and was not renewed. While it was in force Chinese nationals, resident abroad, could be admitted to the United States on presentation of a certificate either of the Chinese government, as authorized by § 6, or of the government of their residence, as permitted by the treaty.[8] During the life of the treaty,the amended Exclusion Act, continued in force for ten years from May 5, 1892 by the act of that date, c. 60, § 1, 27 Stat. 25, would have expired. But by the Act of April 29, 1902, c. 641, § 1, 32 Stat. 176, "all laws now in force . . . regulating the coming of Chinese persons . . . into the United States . . . are hereby, reenacted, extended and continued so far as the same are not inconsistent with treaty obligations, until otherwise provided by law." By this statute the certificate provisions of § 6 of the amended Exclusion Act were continued indefinitely and, on the expiration in 1904 of the treaty of 1894, became the only law on that subject. The reenactment