(d) That provisionally admitted aliens may, whenever necessary, through such agencies as may be available to the Department of Labor, be directed to useful and profitable employment of a nature suitable to such aliens' capacity or acquirements; (e) That, in addition to compliance with the registration provisions hereof, reports shall be made by or on behalf of provisionally admitted aliens at least once in every six months succeeding entry, such reports to be submitted through immigration officials or such other Government authorities as may be designated by the Department of Labor by arrangement with other departments.

To facilitate the enforcement of this Act, the Commissioner General of Immigration shall, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, detail inspectors, matrons, and interpreters of the Immigration Service, and arrange with the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service for the detail of surgeons of that service, for duty on vessels of United States' registry engaged in bringing immigrant passengers to ports of the United States and upon all other vessels so engaged the owners of which are willing to enter into agreements having in view the prompt disposal of their passengers at ports of the United States.

The Commissioner General of Immigration shall have power to make inquiry relative to economic and other conditions affecting aliens in the United States; to collect information concerning the occupations and industries for which they are fitted by training and experience, and also as to the nature of the business or occupation in which they are or have been engaged while in the United States; to procure and furnish such information as will conduce to their welfare and protection; to supply useful information concerning their rights and responsibilities as residents, and the necessity of observing labor, school, health and other laws and regulations, and to inculcate and teach obedience to law; to prevent fraud and loss to aliens, and in the investigation of complaints filed by them or in their behalf, he shall also have power to inquire into the relations of aliens with banks, public or private corporations, companies, partnerships, firms, or other agencies, in connection with the deposit of money and title to and interest in property, real or personal, belonging to them, and also the relations of societies or organizations established for the purpose of aiding them in seeking employment or otherwise; to investigate violations of Federal, State, and municipal laws or ordinances by aliens, or by individuals or organizations dealing with aliens, that may come to his notice, with a view to initiating appropriate action by the proper authorities, Federal or local; to provide, in such way as may best effect the purpose, such system or systems as will enable aliens registered under this Act to secure information relative to immigration, labor, and educational laws and regulations and their responsibilities and duties thereunder, and promote the study of problems connected therewith; to study methods best calculated to aid in the work of assimilation; and to maintain information sections in the several offices of the Immigration Service, and at other convenient places, to aid in the carrying out of the purposes of this act.

The Commissioner General of Immigration shall report to the Secretary of Labor the results of the investigations and studies provided for in this section, for transmission to the Congress and to the appropriate Federal, State, and municipal authorities; and in furtherance of the above objects he shall cooperate with Federal, State, and other public authorities, and with private organizations and individuals. The Secretary of Labor shall provide such expert, clerical, and other assistance as may be necessary to enforce and administer the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 13. The following classes of aliens, in addition to those for whose expulsion from the country provision is made in the immigration laws, shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and deported, in the manner provided in sections 19 and 20 of the Immigration Act: All aliens who may enter the United States in violation of this Act; all aliens who believe in, practice, advocate, teach, sanction, or encourage the extortion of money or property, or the avenging of grievances through threats of bodily injury or injury to property, or who are members of or affiliated with any organization that so practices, advocates, teaches, sanctions, or encourages, the extortion of money or property, or the avenging of grievances; all aliens who, in pursuance of the fourth section of chapter 12 of the Act of Congress approved July ninth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen,' have withdrawn their declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States with the object of escaping military service; all aliens whose registration is probibited by section 5 of this Act; all aliens who shall violate, or fail to observe (otherwise than by reason of sickness, mental or physical disability, or other like unavoidable cause) any provision of this Act relating to registration or re-registration; and all aliens likely to become a public charge: Provided, That in the cases of aliens of the last three classes the Secretary of Labor may, instead of ordering deportation, permit the aliens to remain within the United States provisionally under

section 12 hereof, and such aliens shall thereupon become subject to the conditions and limitations specified in said section.

The deportation of aliens under this Act or the immigration laws shall, at the option of the Secretary of Labor, be to the country whence they came, or to the country of their nationality or nativity, or to the foreign port at which they embarked for the United States.

In every case in which the deportation of any person is ordered under the provisions of this Act or of the immigration laws the decision of the Secretary of Labor shall be final.

SEC. 14. Any person, including the owner, agent, consignee, or master of any vessel arriving in the United States from any foreign port or place, who shall knowingly bring to the United States as a seaman of such vessel, any alien, with intent to permit such alien to land in the United States in violation of this Act or the immigration laws, or who shall falsely and knowingly represent to the immigration officials at the port of arrival that any such alien is a seaman, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $5,000, for which sum the said vessel shall be liable and may be seized and proceeded against by way of libel in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the offense.

SEC. 15. No alien who is a member of any class excluded from admission into the United States by this Act or the immigration laws, and who is employed or serving as a seaman on board any vessel arriving in the United States from any foreign port or place, shall be permitted to land in the United States except pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, providing for the reshipment of the alien in the foreign trade as prescribed in sections 16 and 21 hereof, or for his removal to hospital or elsewhere for observation by medical officers or for medical treatment, or for his safe detention and ultimate deportation; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Labor that the owner, agent, consignee, or master of any such vessel has failed to detain on board any such alien, after notice in writing by the immigration officer in charge at the port of arrival, or has failed to deport any such alien, after being instructed by such immigration officer or by the Secretary of Labor to effect the alien's deportation, such owner, agent, consignee, or master shall pay to the collector of customs of the district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of $300 for each and every such failure, and no vessel shall have clearance while any such fine is unpaid nor shall such fine be remitted or refunded: Provided, That clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon the deposit with the collector of customs of a sum sufficient to cover such fine.

SEC. 16. Upon the arrival at a port of the United States of any vessel from any foreign port or place, it shall be the duty of the proper immigration officials to go or send competent assistants to the vessel and there inspect all alien seamen on board such vessel; and it shall be the duty of the owner, agent, consignee, or master of such vessel to notify the immigration official in charge at the port of arrival of the place where the vessel is or will be anchored or moored. If such owner, agent, consignee, or master shall permit any alien seaman to land otherwise than as provided in sections 15, 20, 21, and 22 of this Act, he shall be subjected to the fine prescribed by section 15 hereof.

SEC. 17. Any alien seaman who shall enter the United States contrary to the provisions of this Act or of the immigration laws shall be deemed to be unlawfully in the United States and shall, at any time within five years thereafter, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and brought before an inspector or other official of the immigration service designated by said Secretary for examination as to his qualifications for admission to the United States, and if not admitted said alien seaman shall be deported in the manner provided in sections 19 and 20 of the Immigration Act, at the expense of the appropriation for the enforcement of this Act: Provided, That any such alien seaman who shall so enter, without intending to abandon his calling, and who shall promptly appear before an immigration official, shall be examined, and, if entitled thereto, shall be certificated, under section 21 of this Act: Provided further, That any such alien seaman who shall so enter, with the intent to abandon his calling, and who shall promptly appear before an immigration official shall be examined, and if entitled thereto, shall be admitted, under section 22 of this Act, and only in the event that such official doubts the admissibility of such alien shall application be made to the Secretary of Labor for a warrant of arrest.

SEC. 18. It shall be unlawful for any vessel, upon arrival in the United States from any foreign port or place, to have on board any alien seaman aflicted with idiocy, imbecility, insanity, epilepsy, tuberculosis in any form, or a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Labor, from an examination made, and a certificate submitted, by a medical officer

of the United States Public Health Service that any such alien seaman was so afflicted at the time he was shipped or engaged and taken on board such vessel and that the existence of such affliction might have been detected by means of a competent medical examination at such time; and for every such alien seaman so afflicted on board any such vessel at the time of arrival the owner, agent, consignee, or master thereof shall pay to the collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of $100; and no vessel shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the question of the liability to the payment of such fine or while it remains unpaid: Provided, That clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine: Provided further, That such fine may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Labor, be mitigated or remitted.

SEC. 19. Upon arrival of any vessel in the United States from any foreign port or place, it shall be the duty of the owner, agent, consignee, or master thereof to deliver to the immigration officer in charge at the port of arrival lists containing the names of all seamen employed on such vessel, stating their nationality, the positions they respectively hold in the ship's company, when and where they were respectively shipped or engaged, and specifying those to be paid off or discharged in the port of arrival, and such other information as the Secretary of Labor shall by regulation prescribe; and after the arrival of any such vessel it shall be the duty of such owner, agent, consignee, or master to report to such immigration officer, in writing, as soon as discovered, all cases in which any alien seaman has illegally landed from the vessel, giving the nationality and description of such seaman, together with any information likely to lead to his apprehension; and before the departure of any such vessel it shall be the duty of such owner, agent, consignee, or master to deliver to such immigration officer a further list showing the names and the nationality of all seamen who were not employed thereon at the time of her arrival but who will leave port thereon at the time of her departure, and also the names and nationality of those, if any, who have been paid off or discharged, and of those, if any, who have deserted or landed; and in case of the failure of such owner, agent, consignee, or master so to deliver either of the said lists of such seamen arriving and departing, respectively, or so to report such cases of desertion or landing, the owner, agent, consignee, or master shall, if required by the Secretary of Labor, pay to the collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of $10 for each seaman concerning whom correct lists are not delivered or a true report is not made as above required; and no such vessel shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the question of the liability to the payment of such fine, or while it remains unpaid; nor shall such fine be remitted or refunded: Provided, That clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine.

SEC. 20. Alien seamen found on arrival in ports of the United States to be afflicted with any of the disabilities or diseases mentioned in section 18 of this Act shall be placed in a hospital designated by the immigration official in charge at the port of arrival and treated, all expenses connected therewith being borne by the owner, agent, consignee, or master of the vessel, and no such vessel shall be granted clearance until such expenses are paid or their payment appropriately guaranteed, and the collector of customs so notified by the immigration official in charge: Provided, however, That in cases in which it shall appear to the satisfaction of the immigration official in charge that it will not be possible within a reasonable time to effect a cure, the return of the alien seamen shall be enforced on, or at the expense of, the vessel on which they came, upon such conditions as the Commissioner General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, shall prescribe to insure that the aliens shall be properly cared for and protected, and that the spread of contagion shall be guarded against.

SEC. 21. All alien seamen who shall arrive at ports of the United States from any foreign port or place and be found to be temporarily admissible under this Act and the immigration laws, as alien seamen in the pursuit of their calling, shall, on their first arrival, be registered by immigration officials and furnished with a certificate of registry and identity, containing their name, description, and photograph, and a notation indicating whether or not they are of a status which would entitle them to admission, should they apply therefor under this Act and the immigration laws. Thereafter, on each occasion of the arrival in ports of the United States of such alien seamen, said certificate shall be accepted by immigration officials as prima facie evidence of the status of the holders under this Act, and such certificate shall be used by all concerned as evidence of the identity of the holders. Afflicted or diseased alien seamen who may be cured as the result of treatment given pursuant to section 20 hereof shall, in like manner, be furnished with said certificate.

All seamen who are United States citizens who shall arrive at United States ports from any foreign port or place, shall also be furnished with a similar certificate of registry and identity containing their name, description, and photograph.

Upon proof of loss or destruction of any such certificate, one in lieu thereof shall be issued. No fee shall be charged for either the issue or the reissue of any such certificate. SEC. 22. Any alien seaman who, upon arrival at a port of the United States from any foreign port or place, shall apply for permission to enter and reside in the United States, shall be admitted only if able to pass all the tests prescribed by this Act and the immigration laws, and only upon being registered under sections 2 to 10 of this Act, and paying the head tax assessed by section 2 of the Immigration Act. Any alien seaman who shall be found admissible to the United States under section 17 of this Act, shall be released from custody and permitted to remain within the United States only upon being registered under sections 2 to 10 of this Act.

SEC. 23. No alien shall be permitted to ship on vessels engaged in the coastwise or Great Lakes trade of the United States unless he has been regularly and permanently admitted to the United States in accordance with this Act and the immigration laws, nor unless he has been registered in accordance with sections 2 to 10 of this Act, except that any alien seaman who has been registered in pursuance of section 21 hereof and furnished with a certificate of registry and identity bearing a notation showing that he is of a status which would entitle him to admission should he apply therefor may be permitted to ship on a vessel engaged in the Great Lakes or coastwise trade upon paying the head tax prescribed by section 2 of the Immigration Act: Provided, That any alien seaman so allowed to ship in the Great Lakes or coastwise trade who may thereafter desire or attempt to abandon his calling and to remain in the United States shall be required to meet the provisions of sections 2 to 10 and of section 17 of this Act: And provided further, That any alien seaman who may show that the head tax prescribed by section 2 of the Immigration Act has been paid by him or on his behalf shall not be required again to pay such tax.

SEC. 24. Shipping commissioners appointed, and all Government officials acting as shipping commissioners, under the provisions of sections 4501 to 4508 of the Revised Statutes or any other law of the United States, shall furnish the appropriate immigration officials with detailed reports showing the names and descriptions of all alien seamen shipping on vessels sailing from ports of the United States to foreign ports. Such reports shall in every case in which such an alien seaman holds the certificate of registry and identity prescribed by section 21 of this act, give the number of such certificate and the name of the port where it issued, and in all other cases shall contain all possible items of information bearing upon the seaman's identity.

SEC. 25. Hereafter it shall not be lawful for the owner, agent, consignee, or master of any vessel engaged in the coast wise trade, or in the lake-going trade, or in the trade between the United States and the British North American possessiors, the West Indies, or the Republic of Mexico to ship any alien seaman on such a vessel unless such master first obtains the consent thereto of the immigration official in charge at the appropriate port. Any violation of this section shall subject the person found guilty thereof to the penalty prescribed by section 4504 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

SEC. 26. The provisions of sections 18 and 20 of the Immigration Act, assessing a penalty for failure or refusal to accept, to detain, to guard safely, to return, and to transport to foreign destination aliens excluded or expelled from the United States, or to pay maintenance and deportation expenses of aliens, or for making any charge for the return of excluded or expelled aliens, or for taking any security for the payment of such charge, or for taking any consideration from aliens to be returned in case of landing, or for bringing to the United States any deported aliens within a year from date of deportation without the consent of the Secretary of Labor, shall apply to a. 1 be enforced in connection with the provisions of this Act relating to the exclusion or expulsion of aliens.

To give false evidence in connection with the enforcement of this Act shall constitute perjury as said offense is defined in section 16 of the Immigration Act; and all of the provisions of sections 16 and 17 of the Immigration Act, prescribing methods of procuring evidence concerning aliens, and defining offenses and prescribing punishments therefor, shall apply to and be enforced in connection with the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 27. Any person who shall substitute any name for the name written in any certificate herein required, or any photograph for the photograph attached to any such certificate, or shall in any manner alter any such certificate, or forge any such certificate, or falsely personate any person named in any such certificate, or issue or utter any forged or fraudulent certificate, or present to an immigrant inspector or other Govern

ment official any forged or fraudulent certificate, and any person other than the one to whom there has been duly issued any certificate prescribed by this Act who shall present to an immigrant inspector or other Government official any such certificate, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000 or be imprisoned for a term of not more than five years, or both. SEC. 28. The Commissioner General of Immigration shall, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, issue such regulations, not inconsistent with law, as may be deeemd necessary and appropriate to place this Act in full force and operation. Such regulations shall include special rules for the application of this Act to the cases of aliens coming to the United States from or through contiguous foreign territory, and to the cases of aliens entering across the land boundaries or elsewhere for temporary stay or at frequent intervals in pursuit of their regular occupations, vocations, or avocations; also special rules to insure that the provisions of this Act, of the Immigration Act, and of any law, convention, or treaty relating to immigration, shall not be violated by aliens arriving at ports of the United States employed on vessels as seamen, and that, at the same time, the enforcement of such laws shall not interfere with the operation of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled "An Act to promote the welfare of American seamen in the merchant marine of the United States; to abolish arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for desertion and to secure the abrogation of treaty provisions in relation thereto; and to promote safety at sea.”

SEC. 29. This Act shall take effect and be enforced on and after January first, nineteen hundred and twenty.