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(d) As no alien can be debarred from the United States except for a statutory reason, no other reason for exclusion should be given in statistical reports. A list of causes of exclusion is given on Form 602-A.

RULE XVII. The monthly reports of appeals to the Department should show the number of persons whose admission or rejection depends upon the decision of the Department. Appeals under the immigration laws should be reported on Form 547; those under the laws governing the admission of Chinese on Form 428. Appeals for all classes of aliens, including all residents of Canada, Newfoundland, or Mexico, should be included in these reports.

RULE XVIII. The statement on Form 519 should show an agreement between aliens accounted for in the monthly statistics, arrivals reported in daily reports, and the amount of head tax collected, and should be forwarded to the Bureau accompanied by the monthly statistical reports on Forms 601-606, 619, and 620, and reports of appeals. The entries on lines 1, 2, and 3 of the agreement statement should correspond, respectively, with the totals shown in the statistical reports of "Immigrant aliens admitted," "Nonimmigrant aliens admitted," and "Aliens debarred." The total number reported in the daily reports during the month should agree with the entry on line 15, and the total number on account of whom head tax is collected should correspond with the entry on line 27. Instructions accompanying the statement of agreement give detailed information with regard to its preparation.

RULE XIX. Aliens who have resided in Canada, Newfoundland, or Mexico continuously for one year or more next preceding application for admission to the United States are exempt from head tax. If such aliens come to the United States for permanent residence, they should be manifested and included in statistics as immigrant aliens and should be included in other immigration reports. If they come only for temporary sojourn, they should not be manifested and should not be recorded as nonimmigrant aliens, and should not be included in statistics nor in other immigration reports, unless debarred, in which case they should be reported only on Form 580, report of aliens refused admission from foreign contiguous territory. Aliens who have resided in Canada, Newfoundland, or Mexico less than one year and all

residents and citizens of Canada, Newfoundland, or Mexico coming from countries other than Canada, Newfoundland, or Mexico, are subjects for head tax, are manifested, and are included in statistics the same as other aliens who come from countries other than Canada, Newfoundland, Mexico, or Cuba.

RULE XX. Aliens who have resided in Cuba for one year or more next preceding departure for the United States are exempt from head tax, but all aliens from Cuba should be regularly manifested, examined as to their admissibility, and included in statistics and other immigration reports..

RULE XXI. Citizens of Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, Guam, and the Hawaiian Islands are exempt from the provisions of the immigration laws, and should not be examined thereunder or reported in immigration statistics or other immigration reports. Alien Chinese from island possessions, however, are subject to the laws governing the admission of Chinese. (See sec. 1, act of April 29, 1902, 32 Stat., part 1, p. 176.) All aliens from such possessions should be manifested on Form 629, and are subjects for head tax, unless previously paid.

RULE XXII. Aliens arriving in this country en route to any of the island possessions of the United States are to be examined under the immigration laws as to their right of entry, are subjects for head tax if belonging to the taxable class, and are to be included in immigration statistics and other immigration reports in the same manner as if their destination were within continental United States.

RULE XXIII. Whether or not apprehended, head tax should be collected on all deserting alien seamen, and they should be reported in the daily reports of arrivals (Form 590) in the absence of proof of an intention to reship in the regular course of their pursuit. They should not, however, be reported in the immigration statistics (Forms 601-606) unless apprehended, and then only in the absence of an intention to reship. The total number of deserting alien seamen included in each month's daily reports should correspond with the entry on line 6 of the monthly agreement statement. The number apprehended and included in the month's statistics should correspond with the entry on line 12 of the said monthly agreement statement. (See also Rule 22.)

RULE XXIV. Under the Immigration Act and Rule 23 stowaways are regarded as aliens applying for admission to the United States, and they should be included in immigration statistics. The number of such cases each month should also be reported on line 30 of the agreement statement (Form 519).

RULE XXV. Aliens applying for admission who refuse to pay head tax should not be considered as applicants for admission, and should not be reported in any immigration report. The number of such cases should, however, be reported on line 31 of agreement statement (Form 519).

RULE XXVI. Aliens who die or escape before admission or deportation should not be included in the statistical reports (Forms 601-606, 619, and 620), but should be accounted for on line 9 of the agreement statement. If aliens who have escaped are afterwards apprehended, they should be regularly entered in the monthly statistical reports, and again accounted for on line 13 of the agreement statement.

RULE XXVII. Chinese should be listed in the regular inward alien manifests (Forms 500, 500-A, and 500-B) and examined under the immigration laws, in addition to being listed in Chinese manifests (Form 418), examined, and reported in the quartermonthly reports, under the Chinese regulations. All alien Chinese are subjects for head tax, and should be reported in regular immigration statistics and other immigration reports. Chinese admitted as aliens under the laws governing the admission of Chinese shall be classed under the immigration laws as aliens, and those admitted as United States citizens shall be so considered under the immigration laws.

RULE XXVIII. At the close of each quarter year the collector of customs at each port will forward to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization a statement on Form 1171 of all passengers departed for foreign countries from his port.

RULE XXIX. Manifests of outward-bound aliens (on Forms 628, 628-A, and 628-B) shall be delivered to collectors of customs within sixty days after the departure of a vessel from a United States port. The collector of customs shall deliver the said manifests to the officer in charge of immigration matters at his port; and the said immigration officer shall cause to be pre

pared from said manifests monthly statistical reports of departing aliens, using Forms 621 to 627, inclusive.

RULE XXX. Departing aliens shall be divided into the two classes emigrant and nonemigrant aliens. Alien residents of the United States leaving the country permanently shall be considered as emigrant aliens." Alien residents leaving the United States with the intention of remaining abroad but temporarily, and alien nonresidents leaving after a temporary sojourn in the United States shall be considered as "nonemigrant aliens."

RULE XXXI. Emigrant aliens departing shall be recorded in monthly statistical reports on Forms 621 to 626, inclusive, to show sex, age, length of residence in the United States, country of intended future residence, race or people, place of residence in the United States, and occupation. Nonimmigrant aliens departing shall be recorded in Form 627 to show only sex and countries of last permanent residence and intended future residence.

RULE XXXII. (a) Section 1 of the act of Congress approved June 29, 1906, entitled "An act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States " (Stat., 1905-6, pt. 1, p. 596), provides that there shall be maintained at the various immigration stations "books of record" containing certain specified information as to every alien admitted.

(b) It is hereby ordered that the manifests of aliens (Forms 500, 500-A, and 500-B) shall constitute the "book of record " required by the statute referred to, and, to this end, that all completed manifests shall be arranged chronologically, bound permanently in books of 150 manifests, and carefully preserved for reference. Due precautions must be taken to guard against the possible loss or destruction of manifests, whether bound or not.

(c) Inspection officers are directed to give particular attention to procuring the supplemental information called for in columns. 25 to 29 of the manifest, supplying any deficiencies which may be found to exist and carefully verifying the information set forth under the respective headings.

(d) All aliens from Canada and Mexico applying for admission to the United States, except those who have resided in Canada or Mexico for one year or more who are coming for temporary

sojourn in the United States, shall be regularly manifested both for statistical and naturalization purposes.

(e) To facilitate reference to the permanent record herein constituted, the names of all aliens shall be card indexed (Form 502 being used for that purpose), a card to be made out for each and every alien admitted to the United States, except those who have resided in Canada or Mexico for one year or more who are coming for temporary sojourn in the United States. The index cards shall be carefully and accurately prepared and placed in card-index cabinets provided for that purpose, alphabetical guide cards being used, to whatever extent may be necessary, to insure proper subdivision of the record cards. Commissioners of immigration and inspectors in charge shall apply to the Bureau for any special instructions or information desired in regard to indexing, card cabinets, preparation and binding of manifests, etc. Whenever practicable, index cards shall be typewritten to insure legibility, black record typewriter ribbons to be used. In the event of possible confusion of the surname and given name, one card to be made for each combination, thus insuring an accurate cross-reference index.

F. P. SARGENT, Commissioner-General of Immigration.

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§ 24. Places in which traffic in liquor shall not be permitted.— Traffic in liquor shall not be permitted:

1. In any building or upon any premises or lands established as a penal institution, protectory, industrial school, asylum, state hospital, state agricultural and industrial school, colony or institution established for the care or treatment of epileptics, or poorhouse, and if such building, premises or lands, other than

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