STATE IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.
To the Sixty-first Congress:
THE IMMIGRATION COMMISSION, Washington, D. C., December 5, 1910.
I have the honor to transmit herewith, on behalf of the Immigration Commission, a report entitled "State Immigration and Alien Laws." This report, which was compiled under the direction of the Commission by John W. Clifton, Esq., contains the principal legislative enactments of the various States respecting immigration, including the earlier laws of some of the seaboard States for the regulation of the movements from foreign countries.
Digest of immigration and alien laws__
Immigration and alien laws
I. An act concerning passengers arriving in the ports of the
State of California__.
II. An act to provide for the protection of foreigners and to
define their liabilities and privileges__.
Act of 1853: An act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning
passengers arriving in the ports of the State of California "_
Act of 1855: An act to discourage the immigration to this State
of persons who can not become citizens thereof___.
Act of 1856: An act relative to escheated estates_
Act of 1858: An act to prevent the further immigration of
Chinese or Mongolians to this State__
Act of 1860: An act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning
passengers arriving in the ports of this State," approved May
3, 1852
Act of 1863: An act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning
passengers arriving in the ports of this State, approved May 3,
1852
I. An act to prevent the kidnapping and importation of
Mongolian, Chinese, and Japanese females for criminal
or demoralizing purposes__
II. An act to prevent the importation of Chinese criminals
and to prevent the establishment of coolie slavery.......
Resolution of 1872: Assembly concurrent resolution No. 3, In-
structing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in
Congress to obtain the adoption of such treaty regulations and
legislation as shall discourage Chinese immigration___.
Resolutions of 1874-
I. On the employment of coolie labor, etc__-.
II. On Chinese immigration___.
Act of 1877: An act to ascertain and express the will of the
people of the State of California upon the subject of Chinese
immigration.
I. An act to promote emigration from the State of Cali-
fornia
II. An act to provide for the removal of Chinese, whose
presence is dangerous to the well-being of communi-
ties, outside the limits of cities and towns in the
State of California
III. An act to prohibit the issuance of licenses to aliens not
eligible to become electors of the State of California_
IV. An act relating to fishing in the waters of this State____
Resolution of 1883: Assembly concurrent resolution No. 1, rela-
tive to the law restricting Chinese immigration and its con-
struction by officers of the General Government___.
Acts of 1883-
I. An act to add a new section to the Political Code, to be
known as section 2969, relating to the auditing of the
accounts of the immigration commissioner, and for the
purpose of the prevention of frauds in the same_____
II. An act to add a new section to the Political Code, to be
known as section 2969, relating to the auditing of the
accounts of the immigration commissioner, and for the
purpose of the prevention of frauds in the same----
Resolution of 1885: Senate concurrent resolution No. 6, relative
to the restriction of Chinese immigration....
Resolution of 1889: Substitute for Senate concurrent resolution
No. 4, requesting the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States to continue in force a certain act of Congress
entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to execute
certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese,'" approved on
the 1st day of October, 1888, and praying for additional legisla-
tion to make it more effective..
California-Continued.
Immigration and alien laws-Continued.
Act of 1891: An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into
the State, whether subjects of the Chinese Empire or other-
wise, and to provide for registration and certificates of resi-
dence, and determine the status of all Chinese persons now resi-
dent of this State, and fixing penalties and punishments for
violation of this act, and providing for deportation of crimi-
nals_____
Resolution of 1893: Assembly joint resolution No. 9, relative to
foreign immigration to the United States...
Act of 1893: An act to prevent compulsory prostitution of women,
and the importation of Chinese or Japanese women for im-
moral purposes, and to provide penalties therefor_-_
Acts of 1901-
I. Amendment to the code..
II. An act empowering boards of supervisors of any of the
several counties of the State of California to levy a
special tax for the purpose of displaying the products
and industries of any county in the State at domestic
or foreign expositions, for the purpose of encouraging
immigration and increasing trade in the products of
the State
Resolution of 1901: Committee substitute for senate resolutions
Nos. 3, 4, and 5, relative to Chinese and Japanese immigration
to the United States__
Digest of immigration and alien laws_.
Immigration and alien laws-
Act of 1861: An act concerning aliens. Colorado statutes: An
act concerning aliens (approved Nov. 4. 1861) ---- .
Act of 1864: An act to exclude traitors and alien enemies from
courts of justice in this Territory in civil cases_
Act of 1870: An act amendatory of chapter 18 of the Revised
Statutes of Colorado concerning corporations....
Act of 1872: An act to create and provide for a board of immi-
gration for Colorado Territory-
Act of 1887, as amended: An act preventing nonresident aliens
from acquiring real estate in Colorado and for the forfeiture of
such property hereafter acquired to the State (approved Apr.
2, 1887; in force, July 2, 1887)---.
Acts of 1889---
I. An act to create a bureau of immigration and sta-
tistics, and to provide for the government thereof____
II. An act to amend sections 1 and 5 and to repeal sections
4 and 6 of an act entitled "An act preventing nonresi-
dent aliens from acquiring real estate in Colorado,
and for the forfeiture of such property hereafter ac-
quired to the State," approved April 2, 1887--
Act of 1891: An act to repeal certain acts preventing nonresi-
dent aliens from acquiring real estate in Colorado, and for the
forfeiture of such property acquired subsequently to said acts_
Act of 1897: An act to repeal an act entitled "An act to create
a bureau of immigration and statistics and to provide for the
government thereof," approved April 20, 1889, the same being
Chapter LXIV, entitled Immigration," of Mills' Annotated
Statutes, and to repeal section 2 of an act entitled "An act
to encourage and promote the organization of agricultural
and mechanical fair associations in the State of Colorado,"
approved April 6, 1891, the same being general section 1862-B
of Mills' Annotated Statutes__
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