compliance with section 6 of the act of Congress of July 5, 1884, and acts supplemental to and amendatory thereof," although compliance therewith, it was alleged, was not necessary. The collector made a pretended and partial examination of said certificates, "but no such examination as the law contemplates," asserted the right "to inquire into or decide aliunde the certificates," and ignored the same; and his said wife and daughter, it was alleged, "were each, wrongfully and unlawfully and in violation of their rights under the provisions of the treaty of 1894, refused entry into the United States." And it was further alleged 
"That immediately on the rendition of said alleged and pretended decision by the said collector of customs each of said persons, the said wife and daughtermade due return to the writ, and denied that Li Tom Shi was the wife of the petitioner, and that Li A. Tsoi was his daughter; denied that the certificates were in regular form, and alleged they were not in conformity with the laws of the United States, in that they were signed by one F.A. May, who was captain general of police of Hong Kong and not the registrar general; that a Mr. Lockhart was registrar general, and that his name did not appear on the certificates. Denied that he (the collector) was without jurisdiction or that he ignored the certificates. Alleged that he took testimony, and on that testimony and the certificates he rendered his decision, as follows, refusing the said Li Tom Shi and Li