sage by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government shall not apply to the tickets or passage of allens in immediate and continuous transit through the United States to foreign contiguous territory: And provided further, That skilled labor may be imported if labor of like kind unemployed can not be found in this country: And provided further, That the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants."

Section 2 provided that section 3, of the act of February 20, 1907, be amended to read as follows: "Sec. 3. That the importation into the United States of any allen for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose is hereby forbidden; and whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or attempt to import, into the United States, any alien for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, or whoever shall hold or attempt to hold any alien for any such purpose in pursuance of such illegal importation, or whoever shall keep, maintain, control, support, employ, or harbor in any house or other place, for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, in pursuance of such illegal importation, any alien, shall, in every such case be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof be imprisoned not more than ten years and pay a fine of not more than $5,000. Jurisdiction for the trial and punishment of the felonies hereinbefore set forth shall be in any district to or into which said allen is brought in pursuance of said importation by the person or persons accused, or in any district in which a violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section occur.

"Any alien who shall be found an inmate of or connected with the management of a house of prostitution or practicing prostitution after such alien shall have entered the United States, or who shall receive, share in, or derive benefit from any part of the earnings of any prostitute; or who is employed by, in, or in connection with any house of prostitution or music or dance hall or other place of amusement or resort habitually frequented by prostitutes, or where prostitutes gather, or who in any way assists, protects, or promises to protect from arrest any prostitute, shall be deemed to be unlawfully within the United States and shall be deported in the manner provided by sections 20 and 21 of this act. That any alien who shall, after he has been debarred or deported in pursuance of the provisions of this section, attempt thereafter to return to or to enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned for not more than two years. Any alien who shall be convicted under anv of the provisions of this section shall, at the expiration of his sentence, be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came, or of which he is a subject or a citizen in the manner provided in sections 20 and 21 of this act. In all prosecutions under this section the testimony of a husband or wife shall be admissible and competent evidence against a wife or husband."

An act, approved June 25, 1910, provided that Section 13 of the act approved June 29, 1906, entitled "An act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the Expediting naturalization of aliens throughout the United States," be amendNaturalization. ed by striking out the last sentence of the section, which reads as follows: "And in case the clerk of any court collects fees in excess of the sum of $6,000 in any one year, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may allow to such clerk from the money which the United States shall receive additional compensation for the employment of additional clerical assistance, but for no other purpose, if in the opinion of the said secretary the business of such clerk warrants such allowance," and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"And In case the clerk of any court exercising naturalization jurisdiction collects fees in excess of the sum of $6,000 in any fiscal year the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may allow salaries, for naturalization purposes only, to pay for clerical assistance, to be selected and employed by that clerk, additional to the clerical force, for which clerks of courts are reuqired by this section to pay from fees received by such clerks in naturalization proceedings, if in the opinion of sald secretary the naturalization business of such clerk warrants further additional assistance: Provided. That In no event shall the whole amount allowed the clerk of a court and his assistants exceed the one-half of the gross receipts of the office of said clerk from naturalization fees during such fiscal year: Provided further, That when, at the close of any fiscal year, the business of such clerk of court indicates in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor that the naturalization fees for the succeeding fiscal year will exceed $6,000 the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may authorize the continuance of the allowance of salaries for the additional clerical assistance herein provided for and employed on the last day of the fiscal year until such time as the remittances indicate in the opinion of said secretary that the fees for the then current fiscal year will not be sufficient to allow the additional clerical assistance authorized. "That payment for the additional clerical assistance herein authorized shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe."

Section 2 authorized the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to make requisition on the Treasurer of the United States for such amount as may be necessary in his opinlon to pay the clerks of the sevrral courts exercising jurisdiction under section 3 of the act of June 29, 1906 (thirty-fourth statute, page 596), for any additional clerical assistance employed by them during the period from September 27, 1906, to June 30, 1907, inclusive, if in the opinion of said secretary the business of such clerks, during the aforesaid period, warranted any allowance for such additional clerical assist

ance: Provided, That no allowance shall be made by said secretary to any clerk for additional clerical assistance who has not collected fees in naturalization proceedings in excess of the sum of $4,500 during the period from September 27, 1906, to June 30, 1907, inclusive, and that the total salaries of such additional clerical assistance shall in no instance exceed the fees received by the United States from the clerk of that court during the period from September 27, 1906, to June 30, 1907, inclusive. Such amount as may be necessary to pay the additional clerical assistance herein provided for, not exceeding $2,000, is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated: Provided. That payment for the clerical assistance herein provided for shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe: Provided further, That no moneys shall be paid to any clerk in excess of the aggregate of the sums paid out by him.

Section 3 amended paragraph 2 of section 4 of an act entitled "An Act to Establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of allens throughout the United States," approved June 29, 1906, by adding after the proviso in paragraph 2 of section 4 of said act, the following: "Provided further, That any person belonging to the class of persons authorized and qualified under existing law to become a citizen of the United States who has resided constantly in the United States during a period of five years next preceding May 1, 1910, who, because of misinformation in regard to his citizenship or the requirements of the law governing the naturalization of citizens has labored and acted under the impression that he was or could become a citizen of the United States and has in good faith exercised the rights or duties of a citizen or intended citizen of the United States because of such wrongful information and belief may, upon making a showing of such facts satisfactory to a court having jurisdiction to Issue papers of naturalization to an alien, and the court in its judgment believes that such person has been for a period of more than five years entitled upon proper proceedings to be naturalized as a citizen of the United States, receive from the said court a final certificate of naturalization, and said court may issue such certificate without requiring proof of former declaration by or on the part of such person of their intention to become a citizen of the United States, but such applicant for naturalization shall comply in all other respects with the law relative to the issuance of final papers of naturalization to aliens.'

The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation act, approved June 17, 1910, appropriates $100.000 for the expenses of collecting the corporation tax authorized by Section 38 of the Payne tariff act, and $25,000 for classifying, Indexing, exhibiting and properly caring for the returns of corporations, and also provided "that any and all such returns shall be open to inspection only upon the order of the President under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Treasury and approved by the President."

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Paroles for
Federal Prisoners.

An act, approved June 25, 1910, provided that every prisoner who has been or may hereafter be convicted of any offence against the United States, and is confined in execution of the judgment of such conviction in any United States penitentiary or prison, for a definite term or terms of over one year, whose record of conduct shows he has observed the rules of such institution, and who has served one-third of the total of the term or terms for which he was sentenced, may be released on parole as hereinafter provided.

The superintendent of prisons of the Department of Justice, and the warden and physician of each United States penitentiary shall constitute a board of parole for such prison, which shall establish rules and regulations for its procedure subject to the approval of the Attorney General. The chief clerk of such prison shall be clerk of said board of parole, and meetings shall be held at each prison as often as the regulations of such board shall provide: Provided, That in every case where a prison other than a United States penitentiary is used for the confinement of such prisoners it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to designate the officers of said prison who, together with the superintendent of prisons, shall constitute such board.

If it shall appear to said board of parole from a report by the proper officers of such prison, or upon application by a prisoner for release on parole, that there is a reasonable probability that such applicant will live and remain at liberty without violating the laws, and if in the opinion of the board such release is not incompatible with the welfare of society, then said board of parole may in its discretion authorize the release of such applicant on parole, and he shall be allowed to go on parole outside of said prison, and, in the discretion of the board, to return to his home, upon such terms and conditions, including personal reports from such paroled person, as said board of parole shall prescribe, and to remain, while on parole, in the legal custody and under the control of the warden of such prison from which paroled, and until the expiration of the term or terms specified in his sentence, less such good time allowance as is or may hereafter be provided for by act of Congress; and the sald board shall, in every parole, fix the limits of the residence of the person paroled, which limits may thereafter be changed in the discretion of the board: Provided, That no release on parole shall become operative until the findings of the board of parole under the terms hereof shall have been approved by the Attorney General of the United States.

If the warden of the prison or penitentiary from which said prisoner was paroled or said board of parole or any member thereof shall have reliable information that the prisoner has violated his parole, then said warden, at any time within the term or terms of the prisoner's sentence, may issue his warrant to any officer hereinafter authorized to execute the same, for the retaking of such prisoner.

At the next meeting of the board of parole held at such prison after the issuing of a warrant for the retaking of any paroled prisoner, said board of parole shall be notified thereof, and if said prisoner shall have been returned to said prison, ne shall be given an opportunity to appear before said board of parole, and the said board may then or at any time in its discretion revoke the order and terminate such parole or modify the terms and conditions thereof. If such order of parole shall be revoked and the parole so terminated, the said prisoner shall serve the remainder of the sentence originally imposed; and the time the prisoner was out on parole shall not be taken into account to diminish the time for which he was sentenced.

Each board of parole shall appoint a parole officer for the penitentiary over which it has jurisdiction. Subject to the direction and control of such board, it shall be the duty of such officer to aid paroled prisoners in securing employment and to visit and exercise supervision over them while on parole, and such officer shall have such authority and perform such other duties as the board of parole may direct. The salary of each parole officer shall be fixed by the board of parole, but shall not exceed $1,500 per annum, which, together with his actual and necessary traveling expenses, when approved by such board, shall be paid out of the appropriation for the maintenance of the penitentiary to which he is assigned, which appropriation is hereby made available for the purpose. In addition to such parole officers the supervision of paroled prisoners may also be devolved upon the United States marshals when the board of parole may deem it necessary.

It shall be the duty of the warden of the prison to furnish to any and all paroled prisoners the usual gratuities, consisting of clothing, transportation, and $5 in money; the transportation furnished shall be to the place to which the paroled prisoer has elected to go, with the approval of the board of parole. The warden of the prison who furnishes these gratuities is hereby authorized to charge the actual cost of the same in his accounts against the United States: Provided, however, That when any such paroled prisoner shall have received his final discharge, while he is away from such prison, he shall be entitled to no further gratuities provided for discharged prisoners under existing law.

Prisoners in State Institutions.

Whenever any person has been convicted of any offence against the United States which is punishable by imprisonment, and has been sentenced to imprisonment and is confined therefor, in any reformatory institution of any state in accordance with Section 5,548 of the Revised Statutes, or other laws of the United States, then if such state has laws for the parole of prisoners committed to such institutions by the courts of that state, such person convicted of any offence against the United States shall be eligible to parole on the same terms and conditions and by the same authority and subject to recommittal for violation of such parole in the same manner, as perseus committed to such institutions by the courts of said state, and the laws of said state relating to the parole of prisoners and the supervision thereof in such institutions are hereby adopted and made to apply to persons committed to such institutions for offences against the United States. The necessary cost of parole and supervision of such prisoners to the state where such institution is located shall be raid by the United States out of the appropriation for the support of prisoners confined in state institutions, which appropriation is hereby made available for the purpose. No such prisoner shall be entitled to go on parole until the Attorney General shall have approved the order therefor: Provided, That when a prisoner is committed to such institution outside of the state where he lives he may be permitted by his parole to return to his home, and in such case the supervision of such prisoner on parole shall devolve upon the marshal of the district where said prisoner lives, and in case such prisoner should violate his parole a warrant for his recommitment shall be delivered to and executed by said marshal.

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair the power of the President of the United States to grant a pardon or commutation in any case, or in any way impair or revoke such good time allowance as is or may hereafter be provided by act of Congress.

An act approved February 25, 1910, provided that Section 8 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses," approved July 2, 1909, be amended to read as follows: Amendments to "Section 8. That the thirteenth census shall be restricted to the Census Law. inquiries relating to population, to agriculture, to manufactures, and to mines and quarries. The schedules relating to population shall include for each inhabitant the name, relationship to head of family, color, sex, age, conjugal condition, place of birth, place of birth of parents, number of years in the United States, citizenship, occupation, whether or not employer or employe, and, if employe, whether or not employed at the date of enumeration and the number of months unemployed during the preceding calendar year, whether or not engaged in agriculture, school attendance, literacy, and tenure of home and whether or not a survivor of the Union or Confederate army or navy; and the name and address of each blind or deaf and dumb person; and for the enumeration of institutions,

shall include paupers, prisoners, juvenile delinquents, insane, feeble-minded, blind, deaf and dumb, and inmates of benevolent institutions.

"The schedules relating to agriculture shall include name, color and country of birth of occupant of each farm, tenure, acreage of farm, acreage of land under irrigation, acreage of woodland, and character of timber thereon, value of farm and improvements, value of farm implements, number and value of live stock on farms and ranges, number and value of domestic animals not on farms and ranges, and the acreage of crops planted and to be planted during the year of enumeration, and the acreage of crops and the quantity and value of crops and other farm products for the year ending December 31 next preceding the enumeration.

"The schedules of inquiries relating to manufacturers and to mines and quarries shall include the name and location of each establishment; character of organization, whether individual, cooperative, or other form; character of business or kind of goods manufactured; amount of capital actually invested; number of proprietors, firm members, copartners, stockholders and officers, and the amount of their salaries; number of employes and the amount of their wages; quantity and cost of materials used in manufactures; amount of miscellaneous expenses; quantity and value of products; time in operation during the census year; character and quantity of power used, and character and number of machines employed. Inquiries shall also be made as to the location and character of irrigation enterprises; quantity of land irrigated in the arid region of the United States and in each state and county in that section under state and federal laws; the price at which these lands, including water right, are obtainable; the character and value of crops produced on irrigated lands, the amount of water used per acre for said irrigation and whether it was obtainable from national, state or private works; the location of the various projects and method of construction with facts as to their physical condition; the amount of capital invested in such irrigation works.

"The census of manufactures and of mines and quarries shall relate to the vear ending December 31 next preceding the enumeration of population and shall be confined to mines and quarries and manufacturing establishments which were in active operation during all or a portion of that year. The census of manufactures shall furthermore be confined to manufacturing establishments conducted under what is known as the factory system, exclusive of the so-called neighborhood household and hand industries: Provided, That the census shall also include an enumeration of the number of cattle, calves, sheep, lambs, hogs, goats and kids slaughtered for food purposes, and all hides produced, whether taken from animals slaughtered for food purposes or otherwise, during the year next preceding the year of the enumeration of population, irrespective of the character of the establishment in which slaughtered or produced.

The inquiry concerning manufactures shall cover the production of turpentine and rosin, and the report concerning this industry shall show, in addition to the other facts covered by the regular schedule of manufactures, the quantity and quality of turpentine and rosin manufactured and marketed, the sources, methods and extent of the industry.

"Whenever he shall deem it expedient, the director of the census may charge the collection of these statistics upon special agents or upon detailed employes, to be employed without respect to locality.

"The form and subdivision of inquiries necessary to secure the information under the foregoing topics shall be determined by the director of the census."

A joint resolution, approved March 24, 1910, provided that the schedules relating to population for the thirteenth decennial census, in addition to the inquiries required by the act entitled "An act to amend Section Nationalities and 8 of an act to provide for the thirteenth and subsequent decenMother Tongues. nial censuses, approved July 2, 1909," approved February 25, 1910, shall provide inquiries respecting the nationality or mother tongue of all persons born in foreign countries, and of the nationallty or mother tongue of parents of foreign birth of persons enumerated.

An act, approved March 8, 1910, provided that the 122d and 124th articles of war be modified to read as follows:

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"Article 122. If, upon marches, guards, or in quarters, different corps of the army happen to join or do duty together, the officer highest in rank of the line of the army, marine corps, organized militia, or volunteers, by commission, there on duty or in quarters, shall command the whole, and give orders for what is reedful in the service, unless otherwise specially directed by the President, according to th nature of the case."

"Art. 124. Officers of the organized militia of the several states, when called into the service of the United States, shall on all detachments, courts martial and other, duty, wherein they may be employed in conjunction with the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, take rank next after all officers of the like grade in said regular forces, and shall take precedence of all officers of volunteers of equal or inferior rank, notwithstanding the commissions of such militia officers may be older than the commissions of the said officers of the regular forces of the United States."

The one hundred and twenty-third article of war was repealed.

An act, approved April 21, 1910, provided that Section 15 of the act entitled

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"An act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes," proved January 21, 1903, as amended by the act entitled, "An act Joint Military to further amend the act entitled 'An act to promote the efficiency Manœuvres. of the militia, and for other purposes,' approved May 27, 1908," be amended so as to read as follows: "Sec. 15. That the Secretary of War is authorized to provide for participation by any part of the organized militia of any state, territory or the District of Columbia, on the request of the Governor of a state or territory, or the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, in the encampments, manoeuvres and field instruction of any part of the regular army, at or near any military post or camp or lake or seacoast defences of the United States. In such case the organized militia so participating shall receive the same pay, subsistence and transportation as is provided by law for the officers and men of the regular army, and no part of the sums appropriated for the support of the regular army shall be used to pay any part of the expenses of the organized militia of any state or territory or the District of Columbia, while engaged in joint encampments, manœuvres and field instruction of the regular army and militia: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized, under requisition of the Governor of a state or territory or the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, to pay the quartermaster general, or such other officer of the militia as may be duly designated and appointed for the purpose, so much of its allotment, under the annual appropriation authorized by Section 1,661, Revised Statutes, as amended, as shall be necessary for the payment, subsistence, transportation and other expenses of such portion of the organized militia as may engage in encampments, manœuvres and field instruction with any part of the regular army at or near any military post or camp or lake or seacoast defences of the United States, and the Secretary of War shall forward to Congress, at each session next after said encampments, a detailed statement of the expense of such encampments and manoeuvres: Provided, That the command of such military post or camp and the officers and troops of the United States there stationed shall remain with the regular commander of the post without regard to the rank of the commanding or other officers of the militia temporarily so encamped within its limits or in its vicinity: Provided further, That except as herein specified, the right to command during such joint encampments, manœuvres and field instruction shall be governed by the rules set out in Articles 122 and 124 of the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States." The Military Academy Appropriation Act, approved April 19, 1910, provided that the portion of the act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending Hazing at June 30, 1902, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1901, West Point. prescribing penalty for hazing, be amended to read as follows:

"That the superintendent of the United States Military Acadeiny, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, shall make appropriate regulations for putting a stop to the practice of hazing, such regulations to prescribe dismissal, suspension, or other adequate punishments for infractions of the same, and to embody a clear definition of hazing. That any cadet who shall be charged with offenses under such regulations which would involve his dismissal from the academy shall be granted, upon his written request, a trial by a general court-martial, and any cadet dismissed from the academy for hazing shall not thereafter be reappointed to the corps of cadets nor be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in the army or navy or marine corps until two years after the graduation of the class of which he was a member. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed."

The regulations of the United States Military Academy upon the subject of hazing having been modified, the Secretary of War is authorized to dispose of any cases which are now pending, and in which final action has not yet been taken, with the provisions of the said regulations as modified.

The Military Academy Appropriation Act, approved April 19, 1910, provided

that for six years from July 1, A. D. 1910, whenever any cadet shall have finished three years of his course at the United States Military Academy, his successor may be admitted to the Academy; and the corps of cadets is hereby

increased to meet this provision.

The Military Academy Act, approved April 19, 1910, gave the consent of Congress to the acceptance by officers of the army, in the discretion of the President, of such military details under the governments of Loaning Officers to Cuba and Panama as may be requested by the Presidents Cuba and Panama. of these republics: Provided, That such details shall not exceed five in number: And provided further, That no officer so detailed shall receive any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from the government of Cuba or Panama.

An act approved May 9, 1910, authorized and directed the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers to provide with all convenient speed for the raising or the removal of the wreck of the United States battleship Raising the Maine. Maine from the harbor of Havana, Cuba, and for the proper interment of the bodies therein, in Arlington Cemetery, and the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to remove the mast of the wreck of said battleship Maine and place the same upon a proper foundation in Arlington National Cemetery at or near the spot where the bodies of those who died through such wreck are interred: Provided, however, That the consent in proper form of the Republic of Cuba shall be first obtained. The sum of $100,000 was appropriated.