The following figures show the number of Pacific Islanders in the various states of the Commonwealth at the census of 1901: TABLE 15.-The number of Pacific Islanders in Australia in 1901, by States. [Compiled from A Statistical Account of Australia and New Zealand, 1903-4, p. 17 A.] The following table shows the number of Pacific Islanders who arrived and departed in Queensland from 1893 to 1903: TABLE 16.-The arrivals and departures of Pacific Islanders from Queensland during the specified years. [Compiled from A Statistical Account of Australia and New Zealand, 1903-4, p. 381.] APPENDIX. THE AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION LAW. THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. THE IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION ACT, 1901 (No. 17 OF 1901), AS AMENDED BY THE IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION AMENDMENT ACT, 1905 (No. 17 OF 1905) AND BY THE CONTRACT IMMIGRANTS ACT, 1905 (No. 19 of 1905.) AN ACT To place certain restrictions on immigration and to provide for the removal from the Commonwealth of prohibited immigrants. Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows: 1. This act may be cited as the immigration restriction act, 1901. 2. In this act, unless the contrary intention appears, "officer " means any officer appointed under this act, or any officer of customs, or any member of the police force of a State; "the minister" means the minister for external affairs. d 3. The immigration into the Commonwealth of the persons described in any of the following paragraphs of this section (hereinafter called "prohibited immigrants") is prohibited, namely: (a) any person who fails to pass the dictation test-that is to say, who, when an officer dictates to him not less than 50 words in any prescribed language, fails to write them out in that language in the presence of the officer; no regulation prescribing any language or languages shall have any force until it has been laid before both Houses of the Parliament for thirty days and, before or after the expiration of such thirty days, both Houses of the Parliament, by a resolution, of which notice has been given, have agreed to such regulation; (b) any person likely, in the opinion of the minister or of an officer, to become a charge upon the public or upon any public or charitable institution; (c) any idiot or insane person; (d) any person suffering from an infectious or contagious disease of a loathsome or dangerous character; (e) any person who has been convicted of an offense, not being a mere political offense, and has been sentenced to imprisonment for one year or longer therefor, and has not served his sentence or received a pardon; (f) any prostitute or person living on the prostitution of others. But the following are excepted: (h) Any person possessed of a certificate of exemption in force for the time being in the form in the schedule, signed by the minister or by any officer appointed under this act whether within or with a Assented to Dec. 21, 1905; proclaimed to commence Feb. 1, 1906. Assented to Dec. 21, 1905. The immigration restriction act, 1901, and the immigration restriction act, 1905, may together be cited as the immigration restriction acts, 1901-1905. (See act No. 17, 1905, sec. 1.) d Section 5 of the immigration restriction amendment act, 1905, is as follows: "5. Until a regulation prescribing any language or languages under section three of the principal act as amended by this act shall come into force, any language authorized by section three of the principal act before the commencement of this act shall be deemed to be a prescribed language within the meaning of that section as so amended." out the Commonwealth; (i) members of the King's regular land or sea forces; (j) the master and crew of any public vessel of any Government; (k) the master and crew of any other vessel landing during the stay of the vessel in any port in the Commonwealth: Provided, That the master shall, upon being so required by any officer and before being permitted to clear out from or leave the port, muster the crew in the presence of an officer; and if it is found that any person, who, according to the vessel's articles was one of the crew when she arrived at the port, and who would, in the opinion of the officer, be a prohibited immigrant but for the exception contained in this paragraph, is not present, then such person shall not be excepted by this paragraph, and until the contrary is proved shall be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant and to have entered the Commonwealth contrary to this act; (1) any person duly accredited to the Government of the Commonwealth by the Imperial or any other Government or sent by any Government on any special mission. 4. A certificate of exemption shall be expressed to be in force for a specified period only, and may at any time be canceled by the minister by writing under his hand. Upon the expiration or cancellation of any such certificate, the person named therein shall, if found within the Commonwealth, be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant offending against this act, and may be deported from the Commonwealth pursuant to any order of the minister: Provided, That in the case of a person entering the Commonwealth from any vessel under this section no penalty shall attach to the vessel or its master owners agents or charterers. 4a. (1) If the minister notifies by notice in the Gazette that an arrangement has been made with the Government of any country regulating the admission to the Commonwealth of the subjects or citizens of that country, the subjects or citizens of that country shall not, while the notice continues to have effect, be required to pass the dictation test. (2) The minister shall not issue any such notice until the arrangement has been sanctioned by resolution of both Houses of the Parliament. (3) Any such notice shall cease to have effect upon the minister notifying, by notice in the Gazette, that it is canceled. 4b. (1) Any person who has resided in Australia for a period or periods in the aggregate of not less than five years, and who is about to depart from the Commonwealth, may in manner prescribed apply to an officer authorized in that behalf for a certificate in the prescribed form excepting him, if he returns to the Commonwealth within the period limited in the certificate, from the provisions of paragraph (a) of section three of this act. (2) The officer may in his discretion give the certificate on payment of the prescribed fee, or, without assigning any reason, withhold it. (3) Where the minister is satisfied that a certificate given under this section has been obtained by any untrue statement of fact or intention, the minister may revoke the certificate, which shall thereupon be taken to be of no effect, and shall on demand be delivered up to the minister. (4) A person to whom a certificate under this section has been issued (which certificate has not been revoked) shall not, on his return to the Commonwealth within the time limited by the certificate, if he produces and delivers the certificate to an officer, be required to pass the dictation test. 5. (1) Any immigrant who evades an officer or who enters the Commonwealth at any place where no officer is stationed may if at any time thereafter he is found within the Commonwealth be required to pass the dictation test, and shall if he fails to do so be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant offending against this act. (2) Any immigrant may at any time within one year after he has entered the Commonwealth be required to pass the dictation test, and shall if he fails to do so be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant offending against this act. (3) In any prosecution under the last preceding subsection, the averment of the prosecutor contained in the information that the defendant has entered the Commonwealth within one year before his failing to pass the dictation test shall be deemed to be proved in the absence of proof to the contrary. 6. Any prohibited immigrant within the meaning of paragraph (a) only of section three may if thought fit by an officer be allowed to enter the Commonwealth or to remain within the Commonwealth upon the following conditions: (a) He shall on entering the Commonwealth or on failing to pass the dictation test, deposit with an officer the sum of one hundred pounds; (b) he shall |