Steerage conditions. Importation and harboring of women for immoral purposes. Immigrant homes and aid societies. Immigrant banksU.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Emigration and immigration |
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Page 99 - When construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any...
Page 58 - States, he shall cause such alien within the period of three years after landing or entry therein to be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came...
Page 97 - ... any alien woman or girl for any such purpose in pursuance of such illegal importation, or whoever shall keep, maintain, control, support, or harbor in any house or other place, for the purpose of prostitution. or for any other immoral purpose, any alien woman or girl, within three years after she shall have entered the United States...
Page 47 - ... board such vessel, in a place accessible to such passengers, and shall keep the same so posted up during the voyage.
Page 57 - States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women or girls for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose...
Page 97 - Columbia, any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution *or[318 debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice, or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute or to give herself up to debauchery, or to engage in any other immoral practice...
Page 45 - ... passengers carried or brought in the vessel, or in any compartment, space, poop, or deck house thereof, is greater than the number allowed to be carried or brought therein, respectively, as...
Page 98 - ... any woman or girl in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or the District of Columbia, in going to any place for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose...
Page 50 - It shall not be lawful for the master of a steamship or other vessel whereon immigrant passengers, or passengers other than cabin passengers, have been taken at any port or place in a foreign country or dominion (ports and places in foreign territory contiguous to the United States excepted...
Page 49 - ... food furnished to such passengers on the voyage ; the number of deaths, and the age and sex of those who died during the voyage, and of what disease ; and in case there was any unusual sickness or mortality during the voyage, to report whether the same was caused by any neglect or violation of the provisions of this act, or by the want of proper care against disease by the master or owners of the vessel...