gration agent.

Who shall be 3. Every person recognized by the Minister as an immigration deemed immiagent shall, with reference to any act done or to be done under this Act, and without formal appointment, be deemed to be an immigration agent for the purposes of this Act. Where immi- 4. The Governor in Council may establish and maintain immigration offices shall be main-gration offices at such places within and outside of Canada as from time to time seems proper.

tained.

ister.

APPOINTMENT POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS.

Immigration 5. The Governor in Council may appoint a superintendent of officers who immigration, commissioners of immigration, immigration agents, may be appointed. medical officers, and such other officers as the governor in council determines. Subordinate 6. Subject to any regulations in that behalf, the Minister may officers арpointed by min- appoint or employ, either permanently or temporarily, any necessary subordinate officers not provided for in the last preceding section, or in any order in council made thereunder, including police guards, inspectors, matrons, and nurses to assist immigration agents and medical officers in carrying out the provisions of this Act, and of any orders in council, proclamations or regulations made thereunder, and may confer upon them, and charge them with, such power and duties as he considers necessary or expedient.

Appointment

officers in cases

7. Subject to the provisions of the regulations in that behalf, of subordinate immigration agents and medical officers may, in emergency, emof emergency. ploy such temporary assistance as may be required, but no such employment shall continue for a period of more than forty-eight hours without the sanction of the Minister.

Immigration agents ex officio.

Duties of of

ficers.

Regulations

may

8. When, at any port of entry, there is no immigration agent, the chief Customs Officer at that port shall be, ex officio, immigration agent.

9. Every officer appointed under this Act shall perform any and all duties prescribed for him by this Act, or by any order in council, proclamation or regulation made thereunder, and shall also perform such duties as are required of him by the Minister, either directly or through any other officer; and no action taken by any such officer under or for the purpose of this Act shall be deemed to be invalid or unauthorized, merely because it was not taken by the officer specially appointed or detailed for the purpose.

REGULATIONS.

10. The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the be made Minister, make such orders and regulations, not inconsistent with by governor in council. this Act, as are considered necessary or expedient for the carrying out of this Act, according to its true intent and meaning, and for the better attainment of its object.

PROPORTION OF PASSENGERS TO SIZE OF VESSEL.

11. No vessel from any port or place outside of Canada shall come within the limits of Canada having on board, or having had at any time during her voyage

(a) Any greater number of passengers than one adult passenger for every 15 clear superficial feet on each deck of such vessel, appropriated to the use of such passengers and unoccupied by stores or other goods not being the personal luggage of such passengers.

(b) A greater number of persons, including the master and crew, and the cabin passengers, if any, than one for every 2 tons of the tonnage of such vessel, calculated in the manner used for ascertaining the tonnage of British ships.

(2) For the purposes of this section, each person of or above the age of 14 years shall be deemed an adult, and two persons above the age of one year and under the age of 14 years shall be reckoned and taken as one adult.

OBLIGATIONS OF MASTERS OF VESSELS BRINGING PASSENGERS.

12. The master of any vessel arriving at any port of entry in Reports of Canada shall deliver a certified and correct report, in the form passengers to prescribed by the regulations in that behalf, to the immigration be delivered to agent at the port.

agent.

13. The master of any vessel sailing from a port outside of Can- Payment for ada who embarks passengers after the vessel has been cleared carrying pasand examined by the proper officer at the port of departure, and tered on list. sengers not enwho does not deliver reports of such additional passengers to the immigration agent at the port of entry, shall pay to such immigration agent for every passenger so embarked and not included in the list of passengers delievered to such proper officer at the port of departure, or to the proper officer at the port at which such passenger was embarked, or to the proper officer at the port at which such vessel first touched after the embarkation of such passenger, the sum of $20, for each passenger so embarked as aforesaid, and not included in one of the said lists.

sel before ar

14. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the master of any vessel Passenger from permitting any passenger to leave the vessel outside of may leave vesCanada at the request of such passenger before the arrival of rival at port of the vessel at her final port of destination; but in every such case, destination. Proceedings the name of the passenger so leaving shall be entered in the mani- in such case. fest on the list of passengers made out at the time of the clearing of the vessel from the port of departure, or at the port at which such passenger was embarked, and shall be certified under the signature of the passenger so leaving the vessel.

report.

15. In addition to the particulars hereinbefore required in the Particulars to report to be delivered on each voyage by the master of any vessel be entered in arriving at any port of entry in Canada to the immigration agent at such port, the master shall report in writing to such agent the name and age of all passengers embarked on board of such vessel on such voyage who are lunatic, idiotic, epileptic, deaf and dumb, or dumb, blind or infirm, or suffering from any disease or injury known to exist by the medical officer of the ship, specifying the nature of the disease, and stating also whether or not they are accompanied by relatives able to support them.

16. The report shall further state the name, age, and last place Entry as to of residence of any person who has died during the voyage, and passengers who have died. shall specify the cause of death and whether such person was accompanied by relatives or other persons who were entitled to take charge of the moneys and effects left by such person and the disposition made thereof.

(2) If there were no such relatives or other persons so entitled, the report shall fully designate the quantity and description of the property, whether money or otherwise, left by such person; and the master of the vessel shall pay over to the immigration agent at the port at which the vessel is entered, and fully account for, all moneys and effects belonging to any person who has died on the voyage.

Disposal of property.

(3) The immigration agent shall thereupon grant to the master Immigration a receipt for all moneys or effects so placed in his hands by the agent to give master, which receipt shall contain a full description of the nature or amount thereof.

receipt.

PERMISSION TO LEAVE THE VESSEL.

Passengers

17. The master of any vessel shall not permit any passenger to leave the vessel until written permission from the immigration not to land without permisagent to allow his passengers to land has been given to the master. sion.

(2) The immigration agent at a port of entry, after satisfying When passenhimself that the requirements of this Act and of any order in gers may leave council, proclamation, or regulation made thereunder have been vessel. carried out, shall grant permission to the master of the vessel to

allow the passengers to leave the vessel.

health.

Master to 18. The master shall furnish the immigration agent, or the medfurnish bill of ical officer at the port of entry, with a bill of health, certified by the medical officer of the vessel, such bill of health being in the form and containing such information as is required from time to time under this Act. Inspection 19. The immigration agent, whenever he deems proper, may of vessel by request the medical officer, before any passengers leave the vesmedical officer. sel, to go on board and inspect such vessel, and examine and take extracts from the list of passengers or manifest, and from the bill of health.

to possess pre

Immigrants 20. The regulations to be made by the Governor in Council may may be required provide as a condition to permission to enter Canada that immiscribed amount grants shall possess money to a prescribed minimum amount, which amount may vary according to the class and destination of such immigrants, and otherwise according to the circumstances.

of money.

Hours of med

MEDICAL INSPECTION.

21. The medical inspection of passengers shall be performed at ical inspection. the hours named in the regulations made by the Minister. Facilities for 22. The immigration agent shall provide suitable facilities for the examination of immigrants at each port of entry, subject to any regulations made by the Minister.

examination.

Tickets to be stamped after inspection.

detained.

23. The medical officer shall, after inspection, stamp the ship ticket or railway ticket or passport of each passenger who has passed medical inspection; and the immigration agent shall detain any passenger who has been inspected and not admitted, as required by this Act, or by any order in council, proclamation, or regulation made thereunder.

Immigration 24. The immigration agent shall be responsible for the safeagent responsi- keeping of any person so detained, except while in an hospital or ble for persons other place of detention under the charge of a medical officer. Arrangements 25. The medical officer may, from time to time, with the consent for care of de- and approval of the Minister, make such arrangements as he tained persons. considers necessary for the care and supervision of immigrants who are detained on board a vessel where hospital facilities on shore do not exist, or, having been permitted to leave the vessel, are detained either for medical treatment or are awaiting deportation.

Prohibited

PERSONS PROHIBITED FROM LANDING-DEPORTATION.

26. No immigrant shall be permitted to land in Canada who is immigrants in- feeble-minded, an idiot, or an epileptic, or who is insane, or who sane and epileptic. has had an attack of insanity within five years; nor shall any immigrant be so landed who is deaf and dumb, or dumb, blind, or infirm, unless he belongs to a family accompanying him or already in Canada, and which give security, satisfactory to the minister, and in conformity with the regulations in that behalf, if any, for his permanent support if admitted into Canada.

Diseased per

sons.

Proviso.

Paupers and beggars.

27. No immigrant shall be permitted to land in Canada who is afflicted with a loathsome disease or with a disease which is contagious or infectious and which may become dangerous to the public health or widely disseminated, whether such immigrant intends to settle in Canada or only to pass through Canada to settle in some other country; provided that if such disease is one which is curable within a reasonably short time, the immigrant suffering therefrom may, subject to the regulations in that behalf, if any, be permitted to remain on board where hospital facilities do not exist on shore, or to leave the vessel for medical treatment, under such regulations as may be made by the Minister.

28. No person shall be permitted to land in Canada who is a pauper, or destitute, a professional beggar, or vagrant, or who is likely to become a public charge; and any person landed in Canada who, within two years thereafter, has become a charge upon

the public funds, whether municipal, provincial or federal, or an inmate of or a charge upon any charitable institution, may be deported and returned to the port or place whence he came or sailed for Canada.

29. No immigrant shall be permitted to land in Canada who has Criminals and been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, or who is prostitutes. a prostitute, or who procures, or brings, or attempts to bring into Canada, prostitutes or women for purposes of prostitution.

30. The Governor in Council may, by proclamation or order, Prohibition of whenever he considers it necessary or expedient, prohibit the certain immigrants. landing in Canada of any specified class of immigrants or of any immigrants who have come to Canada otherwise than by continuous journey from the country of which they are natives or citizens and upon through tickets purchased in that country.

31. Acting under the authority of the Minister, the immigration Boards of inagent, the medical officer, and any other officer or officers named quiry on immigrants seeking by the Minister for such purpose, may act as a board of inquiry admission to at any port of entry to consider and decide upon the case of any Canada. immigrant seeking admission into Canada.

(2) The decision of such board touching the right of any such Appeal to the immigrant to land in Canada shall be subject to appeal to the minister. Minister.

(3) The Governor in Council may make regulations govern- Procedure. ing the procedure in connection with inquiries by such boards of inquiry and appeals from their decisions.

32. All railway or transportation companies or other persons Deportation bringing immigrants from any country into Canada shall, on the of prohibited immigrants. demand of the superintendent of immigration, deport to the country whence he was brought, any immigrant prohibited by this Act, or by any order in council or regulation made thereunder from being landed in Canada who was brought by such railway, transportation company, or other person into Canada within a period of two years prior to the date of such demand.

33. Whenever in Canada an immigrant has, within two years of Immigrant his landing in Canada, become a public charge, or an inmate of a lie charge or becoming pubpenitentiary, gaol, prison, or hospital or other charitable insti- criminal within tution, it shall be the duty of the clerk or secretary of the mu- two years. nicipality to forthwith notify the Minister, giving full particulars.

Minister may

tion.

(2) On receipt of such information the Minister may, in his discretion, after investigating the facts, order the deportation of order deportasuch immigrant at the cost and charges of such immigrant if he is able to pay, and if not then at the cost of the municipality wherein he has last been regularly resident, if so ordered by the Minister, and if he is a vagrant or tramp, or there is no such municipality, then at the cost of the Department of the Interior.

(3) When the immigrant is an inmate of a penitentiary, gaol, Order of or prison, the Minister of Justice may, upon the request of the minister if immigrant is in Minister of the Interior, issue an order to the warden or governor prison. of such penitentiary, gaol, or prison, commanding him to deliver the said immigrant to the person named in the warrant issued by the Superintendent of Immigration as hereinafter provided, with a view to the deportation of such immigrant; and the Superintendent of Immigration shall issue his warrant to such person as superintendent of Immigration. he may authorize to receive such immigrant from the warden or governor of the penitentiary, gaol, or prison, as the case may be, and such order and warrant may be in the form given in schedule 2 of this act.

(4) Such order of the Minister of Justice shall be sufficient authority to the warden or governor of the penitentiary, gaol, or prison, as the case may be, to deliver such immigrant to the person named in the warrant of the Superintendent of Immigration as aforesaid, and such warden or governor shall obey such order; and such warrant of the Superintendent of Immigration shall be sufficient authority to the person named therein to detain such immigrant in his custody in any part of Canada until such immigrant is delivered to the authorized agent of the transportation 79520°-vol 40-11-7

Warrant of

company or companies which brought him into Canada, with a view to his deportation as herein provided.

Deportation (5) Every immigrant deported under this section shall be carby company which brought ried, by the same transportation company or companies which immigrant. brought him into Canada, to the port from which he came to Canada, without receiving the usual payment for such carriage.

By railway company.

Punish ment

ada.

(6) In case he was brought into Canada by a railway company, such company shall similarly convey him or secure his conveyance from the municipality or locality whence he is to be deported to the country whence he was brought.

(7) Any immigrant deported under this section as having beof deported im- come an inmate of a penitentiary, gaol, or prison, who returns to migrants returning to Can- Canada after such deportation may be brought before any justice of the peace in Canada; and such justice of the peace shall thereupon make out his warrant under his hand and seal for the recommittal of such immigrant to the penitentiary, goal, or prison from which he was deported, or to any other penitentiary, goal, or prison in Canada; and such immigrant shall be so recommitted accordingly and shall undergo a term of imprisonment equal to the residue of his sentence which remained unexpired at the time of his deportation.

Stowaways.

33a. The master of any vessel bound for Canada, having on board thereof a stowaway, shall carry him to the port of destination of the vessel in Canada, and, if it is a port of entry where there is an immigration building with an immigration agent in charge thereof, shall hand the stowaway over to the immigration agent, who shall detain him in safe-keeping until the vessel is ready to leave the port, when the stowaway shall be placed by the immigration agent in the custody of, and shall be received by, the master of the vessel on board of it.

(2) Any vessel entering Canada having on board a stowaway and destined for a port in Canada which is not a port of entry, or at which if it is a port of entry, there is no building for the reception of immigrants with an immigration agent in charge, shall carry the stowaway to that port, and on arrival thereat the master of the vessel shall lay an information against the stowaway before a justice of the peace charging him with being a stowaway within the meaning of this Act, and the justice shall on his summary conviction of the stowaway order him to be detained in the common goal or other prison for the port, until the vessel is ready to leave the port, when the stowaway shall be placed by any peace officer in the custody of and shall be received, by the master of the vessel on board of it.

(3) The master of a vessel shall carry to the port from which the vessel came to Canada, without charge, any stowaway who has been returned to the custody of the master and received by him on board of the vessel, as provided by this section.

PROTECTION OF IMMIGRANTS.

Passengers 34. Every immigrant on any vessel arriving at a port of entry may remain on to which the owner or master of such vessel engaged to convey board twentyfour hours him, if facilities for housing or inland carriage for such immiafter arrival. grant are not immediately available, shall be entitled to remain

Passengers

be landed free.

and keep his luggage on board the vessel for twenty-four hours after such arrival, and the master of such vessel shall not, before the expiry of such twenty-four hours, remove any berths or accommodation used by such immigrants.

35. The master of any vessel having immigrants on board shall and luggage to land his passengers and their luggage free of expense to the said passengers at any of the usual public landing places at the port of arrival according to orders which he receives from the immigration agent at the said port, and at reasonable hours as fixed by the immigration agent in accordance with the regulations in that behalf.