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€ 41 # » + yi — 18/22/23 PAGE GENERAL JAPANESE SITUatrON that division of the cropa is to be made after they are harvested and before their removal from the land. | | | | | | ‘It is plain that these clauses outlined by the court were inserted in the contract with the object of masking its gctual | nature, and in the hope of defeating the California law against such | It also is olear that by means of auch cropping con- tracts- if they could be held valid despite state legislation to the contrary- the aim of the California law making aliens ineligible to American citizenship, ineligible also to gcquire or lease agriocul- tural lands in this state, wonld to a large extent be defeated. For if Japenese or other such aliens could gain and mer actual posses= from term to term, the results would be much the seme as in cage of actual ewnership or leasing. fhe sane decision points out that the United states treaty aith Jaren grants liberty te own or lease and os reyes Bo es ee ee we Ve warehouses, factories and shops, and to legse land for residential sion and use of farm lanis by means of orepping contracts, renewed er commercial purposes, but gives no permission to enjoy, ase of have | | the penefit of land fer agricultural purposes, which the California | act forbids. and the court says, further, with relation to the O'Brien ‘gontrasts