Boards of spe- Commissioner-General of Immigration, may designate other United cial inquiry: Authority of; States officials for service on such boards of special inquiry. Such boards shall have authority to determine whether an alien who has been duly held shall be allowed to land or shall be deported. Hearings be- All hearings before boards shall be separate and apart from the fore, private. public, but the said boards shall keep a complete permanent rec

Appeals:

ord of their proceedings and of all such testimony as may be produced before them; and the decision of any two members of a board shall prevail, but either the alien or any dissenting member of the said board may appeal through the commissioner of immiManner of gration at the port of arrival and the Commissioner-General of Immigration to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the Decision on, taking of such appeal shall operate to stay any action in regard based solely to the final disposal of any alien whose case is so appealed until upon original the receipt by the commissioner of immigration at the port of arevidence ; rival of such decision, which shall be rendered solely upon the

taking;

Unless taken, evidence adduced before the board of special inquiry: Provided, decision of of- That in every case where an alien is excluded from admission ficers final; into the United States, under any law or treaty now existing or

hereafter made, the decision of the appropriate immigration officers, if adverse to the admission of such alien, shall be final, Not allowed unless reversed on appeal to the Secretary of Commerce and in cases reject- Labor; but nothing in this section shall be construed to admit of ed under sec- any appeal in the case of an alien rejected as provided for in section ten of this Act.

tion 10.

Bonds:

SEC. 26. That any alien liable to be excluded because likely to become a public charge or because of physical disability other Landing un- than tuberculosis or a loathsome or dangerous contagious disder; In what cases ease may, if otherwise admissible, nevertheless be admitted in permissible; the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor upon the giving of a suitable and proper bond or undertaking, approved by said Secretary in such amount and containing such conditions as he may prescribe, to the people of the United States, holding the United States or any State, Territory, county, municipality, or district thereof harmless against such alien becoming a public charge. The admission of such alien shall be a consideration for the giving of such bond or undertaking. Suit may be brought thereon in the name and by the proper law officers either of the United States Government or of any State, Territory, district, county, or municipality in which such alien becomes a public charge.

Bringing suits upon.

Suits:

SEC. 27. That no suit or proceeding for a violation of the provisions of this Act shall be settled, compromised, or discontinued Compromis- without the consent of the court in which it is pending, entered ing, etc.; of record, with the reasons therefor.

Under former

SEC. 28. That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed acts not af- to affect any prosecution, suit, action, or proceedings brought, fected hereby. or any act, thing, or matter, civil or criminal, done or existing at the time of the taking effect of this Act; but as to all such prosecutions, suits, actions, proceedings, acts, things, or matters the laws or parts of laws repealed or amended by this Act are hereby continued in force and effect.

Courts, circuit and district:

SEC. 29. That the circuit and district courts of the United States are hereby invested with full and concurrent jurisdiction of all causes, civil and criminal, arising under any of the proviJurisdiction. sions of this Act.

ed;

SEC. 30. That all exclusive privileges of exchanging money, Exclusive 'transporting passengers or baggage, or keeping eating houses, privileges: and all other like privileges in connection with any United States How grant- immigrant station, shall be disposed of after public competition, subject to such conditions and limitations as the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration, under the direction or with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, may prescribe: ProProceeds vided, That no intoxicating liquors shall be sold in any such from, to be paid into im immigrant station; that all receipts accruing from the disposal migrant fund. of such exclusive privileges as herein provided shall be paid into

the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the "immigrant fund" provided for in section one of this Act.

Peace officers:

Admission to

SEC. 31. That for the preservation of the peace and in order that arrests may be made for crimes under the laws of the States and Territories of the United States where the various immigrant stations. stations are located, the officers in charge of such stations, as occasion may require, shall admit therein the proper state and municipal officers charged with the enforcement of such laws, and for the purpose of this section the jurisdiction of such officers and of the local courts shall extend over such stations. SEC. 32. That the Commissioner-General of Immigration, under CommissionerGeneral: the direction or with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, shall prescribe rules for the entry and inspection of То make aliens along the borders of Canada and Mexico, so as not to unnec- tracts for inrules and concessarily delay, impede, or annoy passengers in ordinary travel spection on between the United States and said countries, and shall have land bounda ries. power to enter into contracts with transportation lines for the said purpose.

"United

SEC. 33. That for the purpose of this Act the term "United States." States " as used in the title as well as in the various sections of this Act shall be construed to mean the United States and any Meaning of waters, territory, or other place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, term. except the Isthmian Canal Zone: Provided, That if any alien Canal Zone: shall leave the Canal Zone and attempt to enter any other place under the jurisdiction of the United States, nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as permitting him to enter under any other conditions than those applicable to all aliens.

Inspection of aliens from.

Commissioner:

Appointment

SEC. 34. That the Commissioner-General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, may appoint a commissioner of immigration to discharge at New Orleans, of, at New OrLouisiana, the duties now required of other commissioners of leans. immigration at their respective posts.

Deportation:

То be to

Of aliens en

fully.

SEC. 35. That the deportation of aliens arrested within the United States after entry and found to be illegally therein, provided for in this Act, shall be to the trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific transoc e a nic ports from which said aliens embarked for the United States; or, ports; if such embarkation was for foreign contiguous territory, to the foreign port at which said aliens embarked for such territory. SEC. 36. That all aliens who shall enter the United States except at the seaports thereof, or at such place or places as the Secretary tering unlawof Commerce and Labor may from time to time designate, shall be adjudged to have entered the country unlawfully and shall be deported as provided by sections twenty and twenty-one of this Act: Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall affect the power conferred by section thirty-two of this Act upon the Commissioner-General of Immigration to prescribe rules for the entry and inspection of aliens along the borders of Canada and borders. Mexico.

Ports of entry:

To be designated on land

Admission:

children of

citizen.

SEC. 37. That whenever an alien shall have taken up his permanent reidence in this country, and shall have filed his declaration of intention to become a citizen, and thereafter shall send for Of diseased his wife or minor children to join him, if said wife or any of said wife or minor children shall be found to be affected with any contagious dis- alien who has order, such wife or children shall be held, under such regulations declared intenas the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall prescribe, until tion to become it shall be determined whether the disorder will be easily curable, or whether they can be permitted to land without danger to other persons; and they shall not be either admitted or deported until such facts have been ascertained; and if it shall be determined that the disorder is easily curable or that they can be permitted to land without danger to other persons, they shall, if otherwise admissible, thereupon be admitted.

Anarchists:

Not to be ad

SEC. 38. That no person who disbelieves in or who is opposed to all organized government, or who is a member of or affiliated with any organization entertaining and teaching such disbelief mitted; in or opposition to all organized government, or who advocates or

Anarchists:

teaches the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character, shall be permitted to enter the United States or any territory or place subject to the jurisdiction thereof. This section shall be enforced by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Penalty for That any person who knowingly aids or assists any such person assisting to en- to enter the United States or any territory or place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or who connives or conspires with any person or persons to allow, procure, or permit any such person to enter therein, except pursuant to such rules and regulations made by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.

ter.

Immigration SEC. 39. That a commission is hereby created, consisting of Commission: three Senators, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, How appoint- and three members of the House of Representatives, to be aped; pointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and three persons, to be appointed by the President of the United States. Said commission shall make full inquiry, examination, and investigation by subcommittee or otherwise into the subject Authority of immigration. For the purpose of said inquiry, examination, and duties; and investigation, said commission is authorized to send for persons and papers, make all necessary travel, either in the United States or any foreign country, and, through the chairman of the commission or any member thereof to administer oaths and to examine witnesses and papers respecting all matters pertaining to the subject, and to employ necessary clerical and other assistance. Said commission shall report to the Congress the conclusions reached by it and make such recommendations as in its Expenses of, judgment may seem proper. Such sums of money as may be how paid. necessary for the said inquiry, examination, and investigation are hereby appropriated and authorized to be paid out of the "immigrant fund" on the certificate of the chairman of said commission, including all expenses of the commissioners and a reasonable compensation, to be fixed by the President of the United States, for those members of the commission who are not members of International Congress; and the President of the United States is also authorConference: ized, in the name of the Government of the United States, to call, President au- in his discretion, an international conference, to assemble at such thorized to ar-point as may be agreed upon, or to send special commissioners to range for. any foreign country, for the purpose of regulating by international Purpose of. agreement, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate of the

United States, the immigration of aliens to the United States; of providing for the mental, moral, and physical examination of such aliens by American consuls or other officers of the United States Government at the ports of embarkation, or elsewhere; of securing the assistance of foreign governments in their own territories to prevent the evasion of the laws of the United States governing immigration to the United States; of entering into such international agreements as may be proper to prevent the immigration of aliens who, under the laws of the United States, are or may be excluded from entering the United States, and of regulatInformation ing any matters pertaining to such immigration.

division:

Establishment of;

SEC. 40. Authority is hereby given the Commissioner-General of Immigration to establish, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, a division of information in the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization; and the Secretary Duties and of Commerce and Labor shall provide such clerical assistance as authority of. may be necessary. It shall be the duty of said division to promote a beneficial distribution of aliens admitted into the United States among the several States and Territories desiring immigration. Correspondence shall be had with the proper officials of the States and Territories, and said division shall gather from all available

Information

division:

State agents:

Appointment

to;

sources useful information regarding the resources, products, and physical characteristics of each State and Territory, and shall publish such information in different languages and distribute the publications among all admitted aliens who may ask for such information at the immigrant stations of the United States and to such other persons as may desire the same. When any State or Territory appoints and maintains an agent or agents to represent and stationing it at any of the immigrant stations of the United States, such at ports; agents shall, under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner- Courtesies General of Immigration, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, have access to aliens who have been admitted to the United States for the purpose of presenting, either orally or in writing, the special inducements offered by such State or Territory to aliens to settle therein. While on duty at any immigrant station such agents shall be subject to all the regulations prescribed by the Commissioner-General of Immigration, who, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, may, for violation of any such regulations, deny to the agent guilty of such violation any of the privileges herein granted.

SEC. 41. That nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply to accredited officials of foreign governments nor to their suites, families, or guests.

Control of.

Foreign cials:

off

Exempted from provisions

Amendatory of

SEC. 42. It shall not be lawful for the master of a steamship or hereof. other vessel whereon immigrant passengers, or passengers other navigation act. than cabin passengers, have been taken at any port or place in a foreign country or dominion (ports and places in foreign territory contiguous to the United States excepted) to bring such vessel and passengers to any port or place in the United States unless the compartments, spaces, and accommodations hereinafter mentioned have been provided, allotted, maintained, and used for and by such passengers during the entire voyage; that is to say, in a steamship, the compartments or spaces, unobstructed by cargo, stores, or goods, shall be of sufficient dimensions to allow for each and every passenger carried or brought therein eighteen clear superficial feet of deck allotted to his or her use, if the compartment or space is located on the main deck or on the first deck next below the main deck of the vessel, and twenty clear superficial feet of deck allotted to his or her use for each passenger carried or brought therein if the compartment or space is located on the second deck below the main deck of the vessel: Provided, That if the height between the lower passenger deck and the deck immediately above it is less than seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of the side scuttles) through which light and air are admitted together to the lower passenger deck are less in size than in the proportion of three square feet to every one hundred superficial feet of that deck, the ship shall not carry a greater number of passengers on that deck than in the proportion of one passenger to every thirty clear superficial feet thereof. It shall not be lawful to carry or bring passengers on any deck other than the decks above mentioned. And in sailing vessels such passengers shall be carried or brought only on the deck (not being an orlop deck) that is next below the main deck of the vessel, or in a poop or deck house constructed on the main deck; and the compartment or space, unobstructed by cargo, stores, or goods, shall be of sufficient dimensions to allow one hundred and ten cubic feet for each and every passenger brought therein. And such passenger shall not be carried or brought in any between decks, nor in any compartment, space, poop, or deck house, the height of which from deck to deck is less than six feet. In computing the number of such passengers carried or brought in any vessel, children under one year of age shall not be included, and two children between one and eight years of age shall be counted as one passenger; and any person brought in any such vessel who shall have been, during the voyage, taken from any other vessel wrecked or in distress on the high seas, or have been picked up at sea from any boat, raft, or otherwise, shall not be included in such computation. The master of a vessel

Amendatory of coming to a port or place in the United States in violation of either navigation act. of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and if the number of passengers other than cabin passengers carried or brought in the vessel, or in any compartment, space, poop, or deck house thereof, is greater than the number allowed to be carried or brought therein, respectively, as hereinbefore prescribed, the said master shall be fined fifty dollars for each and every passenger in excess of the proper number, and may also be imprisoned not exceeding six months.

clause:

This section shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and nine.

Repealing SEC. 43. That the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, being an Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States, except section thirty-four thereof, and the Act of March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, being an Act to extend the exemption from head tax to citizens of Newfoundland entering the United States, and all Acts and parts of Acts inExceptions. consistent with this Act are hereby repealed: Provided, That this Act shall not be construed to repeal, alter, or amend existing laws relating to the immigration or exclusion of Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent, nor to repeal, alter, or amend section six, chapter four hundred and fifty-three, third session Fiftyeighth Congress, approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and five, or, prior to January first, nineteen hunded and nine, section one of the Act approved August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An Act to regulate the carriage of passengers by sea."

When effective.

SEC. 44. That this Act shall take effect and be enforced from and after July first, nineteen hundred and seven: Provided, however, That section thirty-nine of this Act and the last proviso of section one shall take effect upon the passage of this Act and section forty-two on January first, nineteen hundred and nine. Approved February 20, 1907. (34 Stat., pt. 1, 898.)