APPENDIX 2

CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Classifications of Activities in this series have for their purpose to list and classify in all practicable detail the specific activities engaged in by the several services of the national government. Such statements are of value from a number of standpoints. They furnish, in the first place, the most effective showing that can be made in brief compass of the character of work performed by the service to which they relate. Secondly, they lay the basis for a system of accounting and reporting that will permit the showing of total expenditures classified according to activities. Finally, taken collectively, they make possible the preparation of a general or consolidated statement of the activities of the government as a whole. Such a statement will reveal in detail, not only what the government is doing, but the services in which the work is being performed. For example, one class of activities that would probably appear in such a classification is that of "scientific research." A subhead under this class would be "chemical research." Under this head would appear the specific lines of investigation under way and the services in which they were being prosecuted. It is hardly necessary to point out the value of such information in planning for future work and in considering the problem of the better distribution and coördination of the work of the government. The Institute contemplates attempting such a general listing and classification of the activities of the government upon the completion of the present series.

CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES

1. Determination of eligibility for entrance

1

1. Upon foreign soil as to fitness

1. Racially

I. Chinese1

1 Under treaty, laws, and regulations in coöperation with the Department of State.

2. At United States ports by individual examination as to

2

1. By selection on foreign soil as to the unfit

1. Racially

2. Geographically

3. Numerically

2. Upon arriving at United States ports because unfit

1. Physically

2. Mentally

3. Politically

4. Morally

5. Intellectually

6. Technically

7. Economically

Under the “gentlemen's agreement” in coöperation with the Department of State.

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* The "barred zone" provision. It is expressed geographically or territorially, but is basically racial in intent.

The nationality 3 per cent quota.

"In coöperation with the Public Health Service, which actually conducts the examination.

'Anarchists, etc.

'The illiteracy test.

* Technical conformance with rules and regulations, such as contract laborers."

'Paupers, charity patients, etc.

3. Detention of those of doubtful eligibility pending

1. Determination by board of special inquiry as to facts and

involving

I. Subsistence during detention

2. Hospital treatment where necessary

2. Adjudication of appeals from exclusion decisions involving review by

1. Bureau of Immigration

2. Board of Review of Department of Labor

4. Deportation of the ineligible under

1. Immigration laws where ineligibility

I. Exists before entry

2. Arises subsequent to entry

2. Chinese-exclusion act "

5. Admission of those eligible for

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I. Permanent residence because of

I. Passing of all tests and hence entailing

I. Collection of head tax

2. Recording of statistics

2. Exception" to

11 Action here wholly carried on by Department of Justice and courts.

Immigrant Service only appears as aid.

12 The exceptions must, of course, pass all other tests.

13 Natives of the United States or former residents seeking readmission.

CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES

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6. Administration of

1. Central office or intramural affairs including

1. Mails and files

2. Legal matters

3. Accounting for moneys

4. Correspondence

5. Personnel

6. Annual reports

7. Statistics

2. Technical matters including

1. Routing of deportees

2. Recording and identification of transit aliens

3. Identification of alien seamen

4. Handling of appeals from adverse court decisions

5. Coöperation in Chinese deportation

6. Administration of contract labor provisions of law

3. Fiscal matters including

1. Levying administrative fines

2. Securing of surety bonds in necessary cases

3. Collection of expenses of detention and deportation

7. Miscellaneous matters

1. Assistance in prosecutions

2. Inspection of, and report on, conditions of vessels 3. Posting of laws

4. Inspection of passports and consular visés

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"From transportation companies or other responsible agents.

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For the Department of State.

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APPENDIX 3

PUBLICATIONS

The Bureau of Immigration issues three current publications, namely:

1. Annual Report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration 2. Immigration Laws and Rules

3. Treaty, Laws, and Regulations Governing the Admission of Chinese

The Annual Report performs two functions: it serves as the document through which the Bureau gives general information as to the operations of the Service, and immigration statistics for the completed fiscal year; and it serves as the financial report of the Service for the completed fiscal year.

The pamphlet on the Immigration Laws and Rules is kept revised to date, and contains all the laws in force regarding immigration and also the rules for the administration of those laws.

The pamphlet on the treaty, laws, and regulations governing the admission of Chinese, which is revised and kept up to date, gives the treaty which is the basis of all exclusion laws, the exclusion laws in force, and the current regulations of the division for the administration of these laws.