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Washington Territory's race-based, discriminatory Chinese Police Tax

Washington Territory’s race-based, discriminatory Chinese Police Tax
May 12, 2021 at 12:05 pm
The earliest known image of what s now Bellingham the community of Whatcom, as it appeared in 1873; the Chinese Police Tax, for some reason, was legally higher in Whatcom County. (Whatcom Museum)
The violent expulsion of Chinese people from West Coast cities in the 1880s – including Seattle and Tacoma – is a dark chapter of Northwest history. But anti-Chinese discrimination in the Northwest can be traced back even further, to a law passed by the Washington Territorial Legislature in 1864.
A thesis about the evolving boundaries of counties in Washington Territory and the state of Washington published back in the 1920s (and reissued by the Yakima Valley Genealogical Society and Klickitat County Historical Society in 1979) mentions an 1864 law that created the race-based “Chinese Police Tax.” This law – and this tax – writes original autho ....

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