Parliamentary Papers

ALIENS ACT, 1905.

A Return of Alien Passengers brought to the

United Kingdom from Ports in Europe or within the Mediterranean Sea during the three months ending June

ending June 30, 1907; together with the number of Expulsion Orders made during that period requiring Aliens to leave the United Kingdom.

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EXPLANATORY NOTES.

Immigrant Section 8 (2) of the Act provides that the expression “immigrant ship”
ship. means "a ship which brings to the United Kingdom more than 20 alien

steerage passengers who are to be landed in the United Kingdom, whether at
the same or different ports, or such number of those passengers as may be for
the time being fixed by order of the Secretary of State, either generally or as
regards any special ships or ports”; and in this return "immigrant ship
means a ship which brings to be landed in the United Kingdom more than
20 alien steerage passengers.

For the purposes of the Act, all alien passengers, except first class or

“ cabin " passengers, are steerage passengers. Non

Ships bringing to be landed not more than 20 alien steerage passengers are immigrant described as “non-immigrant ships." ships. Cabin

By an Order, dated December 19th, 1905, and made under section 8 (3) of passengers. the Act, the Secretary of State declared “all such passengers as are entitled to

use the cabins, state rooms, or saloons where the accommodation is superior to
that provided in any other part of the ship devoted to the carrying of passengers,

to be cabin passengers for the purposes of the Act.”
Exempted Under section 1 (4) the Secretary of State has power, in certain circum-

stances and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose, to exempt class

immigrant ships from the provisions of that section. The Secretary of State passengers.

has in a number of instances granted such exemptions conditioned so as to
relieve the second-class passengers from inspection, on the owners of the ships
giving security by bond that they will not land, from amongst those

passengers,
undesirable immigrants.
Trans-

This expression means alien passengers (other than first-class or cabin migrants. passengers) who have in their possession on arrival prepaid through tickets,

and in respect of whom security has been given under section 8 (1) (b) of the
Act, that they will proceed to places outside the United Kingdom. Alien
passengers who come within this category are not regarded as immigrants

under the Act.
Proceeding Under this heading are placed those alien passengers who come within the
to a desti- provisions of section 8 (1) (a) of the Act, to the effect that “any passenger
nation out- who shows to the satisfaction of the immigration officer or board concerned
side the
United

with the case that he desires to land in the United Kingdom only for the Kingdom. purpose of proceeding within a reasonable time to some destination out of the

United Kingdom.”

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N.B.- The figures in the following Tables are subject to correction at the

end of the year.

As regards the figures in Table I., it may be taken that the transmigrants (in column 5), with a few exceptions, and the aliens included in column ìi, have left the United Kingdom. It is probable that the greater number of the aliens included in columns 7, 8 and 9 have also left or will leave the country. Column 10 includes those alien passengers who stated that they were returning to their homes in the United Kingdom. With respect to the remainder no information is available as to their intentions or movements.