The United States: Facts and Figures Illustrating the Physical Geography of the Country, and Its Material Resources; Supplement I. Population, Immigration, Irrigation |
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Page 23 - Chinese laborer who has a lawful wife, child, or parent in the United States, or property therein of the value of one thousand dollars, or debts of like amount due him and pending settlement.
Page 289 - States, shall have for the protection of their persons and property all rights that are given by the laws of the United States to citizens of the most favored nation, excepting the right to become naturalized citizens.
Page 24 - ... any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge...
Page 307 - An act to amend an act entitled ;An act to encourage the growth of timber on the western prairies...
Page 298 - Tables and Results of the Precipitation, in Rain and Snow, in the United States, and at some stations in adjacent parts of North America, and in Central and South America.
Page 23 - ... conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars for each offense.
Page 23 - ... facts shall be fully reported to and investigated by the consular representative of the United States at the port or...
Page 24 - Approved February 26, 1885. SUPPLEMENT TO ALIEX LABOR LAW. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories and the District of Columbia...
Page 41 - Bemberg, who does not seem sufficiently alive to the fact that it is possible to have too much of a good thing.
Page 289 - ... have for the protection of their persons and property all rights that are given by the laws of the United States to citizens of the most favored nation, excepting the right to become naturalized citizens. And the Government of the United States reaffirms its obligation, as stated in said Article III, to exert all its power to secure protection to the persons and property of all Chinese subjects in the United States.