WHITE PERSON. As used in the natural ization laws, a person of the Caucasian race. In re Ah Yup, 5 Sawy. 155, Fed. Cas. No. 104. It does not include a Mongolian ; id.; it includes a person nearer white than black or red ; Jeffries v. Ankeny, 11 Ohio 375; a Mexican, In re Rodriguez, 81 Fed. 337 ; an Armenian ; In re Halladjian, 174 Fed. 834; a Maronite; In re Ellis, 179 Fed. 1002 ; a Parsee ; U. S. v. Balsara, 180 Fed, 694, 103 C. C. A. 660 ; but not a half-breed Mongolian and white; In re Knight, 171 Fed. 299 ; or a half-breed Indian and white; In re Ca mille, 6 Fed. 256. Whether one is a "free white person" cannot be determined on any ground of complexion or race, but, in view of the conditions existing in 1790, when they were first used in the naturalization statute, must be limited to persons of European na tivity or descent. As so construed a Syrian is not entitled to naturalization ; In re Dow, 213 Fed. 355.
This case contains an elaborate ethnologi cal discussion by Smith, D. J. (district of South Carolina), as do also his opinions in Ex parte Dow, 211 Fed. 486, and Ex parte Shahid, 205 Fed. 812. A Syrian was held entitled to naturalization in Re Ellis, 179 Fed. 1002, and Bessho v. U. S., 178 Fed. 245, 101 C. C. A. 605.
In South Africa it means a person of Eu ropean descent ; [1905] T. S. 621.
See NEGRO.
In the legislation of the slave period it re ferred to a person without admixture of col ored blood, whatever the actual complexion might be ; Du Val v. Johnson, 39 Ark. 192. The words white and colored as used in the statutes providing for. the maintenance of schools are held to be used in the ordinary acceptation ; Van Camp v. Board of Educa tion of Logan, 9 Ohio St. 407.