Rule 81. ATTORNEYS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVES. SUBDIVISION 1. Admission to practice.-It shall be requisite to the admission of attorneys or counsellors to practice before the Department or any Immigration Station that they shall be attorneys in good standing in the courts of the State to which they respectively belong, and any person who desires to appear in behalf of any alien shall be a person of good character and reputation. SUBD. 2. Appearances. All appearances must be entered in writing and only one person or firm of record representing the interests of the alien will be recognized. Any attorney or person claiming to represent an alien may be required to show that he is entitled to appear for the alien. SUBD. 3. Fees.-No attorney or agent or other person shall in any case demand or receive compensation of any character exceeding $25 for appearing in behalf of an alien or aliens constituting one family applying for admission, unless authorized so to do by the Department or officer in charge of Immigration Station. SUBD. 4. Disbarment.-The Secretary of Labor may suspend or exclude from further practice before the Department or any Immigration Station any person, firm, corporation, or association who shall charge or receive either directly or indirectly, any fee or compensation for his services in excess of the above rate except in the manner herein provided, or who, with intent to defraud, deceives, misleads or threatens any alien or who refuses to comply with the immigration laws and rules. Rule 32. POSTING OF IMMIGRATION LAWS.1 Upon application by any transportation company the bureau will furnish a summary of the act of February 5, 1917, in English, a posting of which, in appropriate foreign languages, will be regarded as an observance of the spirit of section 8 of the act of March 3, 1893. Certificates in relation to posting of the immigration laws and other matters, which, under said law, transportation company must file, shall be filed with the bureau on January 1 and July 1 each year. Rule 33. SERVICE UNIFORMS. Officers and employees of the Immigration Service, whether stationed at ports of entry or elsewhere, shall wear, while on duty, the uniform prescribed by the bureau, unless otherwise specially directed in writing. Rule 34. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Correspondence and reports shall be sent through official channels addressed to the Commissioner General of Immigration, Washington, D. C. Telegrams shall be addressed "Immigration Bureau, Washington, D. C."; and in telegraphing, the code provided by the bureau shall be used to the fullest extent possible. Rule 35. ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICTS. For convenience in enforcing both the immigration laws and the Chinese-exclusion laws, the territory within which immigration officials are located is divided into districts, under the jurisdiction of commissioners of immigration or inspectors in charge, numbered, defined, and with headquarters fixed, as follows: 1 See act of Mar. 3, 1893, p. 101. 4 Commissioner of im- Philadelphia Immimigration. 5.....do..... gration Station, GloucesterCity,N.J. Baltimore, Md.. 6 Inspector in charge.. Norfolk, Va.... 7 .do.. Jacksonville, Fla. Extent of district. Eastern Canadian seaports and Canadian border east of the easterly line of Montana. New England States, including port of Boston and subports of New Bedford and Providence. New York and New Jersey; immigration matters only. New York and New Jersey; Chinese matters only. Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware; port of Philadelphia. Maryland and District of Columbia; port of Baltimore and subport of Washington. Virginia and North Carolina; port of Norfolk and subport of Newport News. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina; port of Jacksonville and subports of Savannah, Brunswick, Tampa, Miami, Key West, Pensacola, Mobile, and Charleston. 8 Commissioner ofim- New Orleans, La...... Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee; migration. port of New Orleans and subports of Gulfport and Pascagoula. The port of Galveston and subports of Port Arthur Ohio, Indiana south of the fortieth parallel, and Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, western Nebraska, Southern Montana; substation, Havre. Oregon; port of Portland and subport of Astoria. Porto Rico; port of San Juan and subports of Ponce Territory of Hawaii, including all ports. W. W. HUSBAND, Commissioner General. REGULATIONS TO GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE ACT APPROVED MAY 19, 1921, AS AMENDED BY THE ACT APPROVED MAY 11, 1922. The provisions of the act approved May 19, 1921, as amended by the act approved May 11, 1922, are in addition to and not in substitution for the provisions of laws, conventions, or treaties of the United States relating to the immigration, exclusion, or expulsion of aliens in force and effect upon the passage of said act. Until the prescribed quota, monthly or otherwise, in respect of the nationals of a given country has been reached, this act will not apply to such nationals, except for classification purposes in reckoning percentage limits. For the purposes of said act, place of birth shall govern, notwithstanding change in nationalities since 1910 due to transfer of territory where birth occurred in some other country, or the creation of a new country, unless such transfer or new country has not been recognized by the Government of the United States, in which latter event such transfer, or creation of new country, shall be disregarded. To illustrate: (1) A native of Alsace-Lorraine, regardless of claimed nationality, shall be charged to France; and (2) an alien born in what is now recognized as Poland shall be charged to the quota of that country, regardless of present citizenship. (1) Subdivision (a) of section 2 enumerates eight classes of aliens which shall be regarded as excepted from the quota count. For the purpose, among others, of making clearer the legislative intent with respect to several of these classes, the following comment is offered: (a) Aliens in continuous transit through the United States.-Immigration officials will exercise care to prevent an abuse of this exemption, to which end they shall, among other things, satisfy themselves that a bona fide transit is intended and that it is the purpose of the alien to pass by continuous journey through and out of the United States. Aliens of this and the class referred to hereinafter in paragraph (c) who are later found residing in the United States under circumstances indicating abandonment of their declared purpose in entering shall be charged to the unfilled quotas of their respective countries, to which end such cases shall be promptly reported to the immigration official in charge at the port where entry occurred. (b) Aliens lawfully admitted to the United States who later go in transit from one part of the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory.-The transit journey herein referred to must be completed within sixty days. Departure and return may occur through the same port. If return is sought after the expiration of sixty days, the applicant may be treated as falling with subdivision (a) of section 2 hereunder. (c) Aliens coming to the United States as tourists or temporarily for business or pleasure.—Aliens of these classes coming for a period not to exceed six months shall be considered exempted, within the meaning of section 2; but any such found residing in the United States under circumstances indicating abandonment of visit shall be reported as provided in paragraph (a) hereof. (d) Aliens applying for admission from certain foreign countries following a continuous residence of five years or more therein.-Exemption hereunder shall not be lost merely by reason of temporary absences of short duration from the countries and islands referred to in the act. The Bermudas and all other islands lying off the coasts of North and South America not more distant therefrom than the Bermudas shall be regarded as "adjacent islands" within the meaning of this exemption. (2) Under the provisions of paragraph (d) of section 2 of the act, aliens of certain enumerated classes may be admitted, in so far as the act is concerned, notwithstanding the quota of the particular country to which they are chargeable has been exhausted. Aliens of said classes are, however, charged against the proper quotas until the maximum number thereunder shall have been admitted. (a) Aliens returning from a temporary visit abroad.-A "temporary visit abroad," as contemplated by the second proviso to subdivision (d) of section 2 of the act, shall be construed to mean an absence in any foreign country (without relinquishment of domicile) not exceeding six months in duration. An alien who remains abroad in excess of six months shall be presumed to have abandoned his domicile in the United States. However, such presumption may be overcome by the production of evidence to the contrary, satisfactory to the appropriate immigration officers. (b) Aliens employed as domestic servants.-Domestic servants, for the purposes of the act, are those only who have actually been employed, either in the United States or any foreign country, in the household of the person or persons accompanying them or to whom destined in the United States, coming for the purpose of continuing such employment. When the maximum number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted in any period under this act shall have been admitted, all other aliens of such nationality, except as otherwise expressly provided by said act, who may apply for admission during that period shall be referred to a board of special inquiry for appropriate action. These regulations are effective on and after June 3, 1921. Approved: 106047°-22——7 W. W. HUSBAND, Commissioner General. |