The provisions of Part I of the Aliens Order apply to the landing of alien seamen as well as to alien passengers. The master of every ship arriving from a foreign port has to furnish to the Immigration Officer a list of the alien members of his crew with certain particulars, including the port at which they were signed on the articles of the ship. Alien seamen who remain on the ship's articles and do not seek to land for discharge are given temporary leave to land during the stay of the ship in port by means of a notice served on the master, but alien seamen who seek to land for discharge must first obtain permission from the Immigration Officer. Alien seamen who have signed on at British ports are permitted to land for discharge on return to a British port in the same ship, save in very exceptional circumstances. In order, however, to prevent large accumulations of alien seamen at British ports who would be unable to find employment on ships and who might consequently tend to drift into the general labour market, alien seamen who have signed on abroad and seek to land for discharge at British ports are subject to certain restrictions. They are, as a rule, either refused leave to land for discharge or are permitted to land for discharge on condition of repatriation. In certain cases alien seamen who have signed on abroad have to be permitted to land for medical reasons, but they are still kept subject to conditions until finally disposed of. Thus, under the provisions of the Aliens Order, the supply of alien seamen at British ports can be to a large extent controlled and the restrictions can be regulated as circumstances require. For this purpose the Immigration Officers keep in close touch with shipowners and agents and the consuls of foreign countries. Immigration Officers responsible to the Home Office are stationed at the following ports in addition to the ports scheduled as approved in the Aliens Order :

At the other Non-Approved Ports the work under the Aliens Order is carried out by Waterguard Officers of H.M. Customs acting as Immigration Officers under a general warrant of the Secretary of State. It will be seen that Table VII gives the total number of alien seamen who applied for leave to land for discharge during 1925, divided into the two main classes of those who signed on in the United Kingdom and those who signed on abroad, together with particulars as to how the classes were dealt with. Of the 14,249 who had been signed on abroad, 996 were refused leave to land, 3,319 were permitted to land for discharge without conditions, and 9,934 were permitted to land for discharge subject to conditions, (7,892 to leave the United Kingdom, 547 for medical reasons, and 1,495 for other purposes),

TABLE 1.

SUMMARY OF THE ALIEN PASSENGERS (EXCLUDING TRANSMIGRANTS) LANDED

AND EMBARKED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM DURING 1925.

TABLE II continued.

TABLE III.

NUMBER OF ALIEN PASSENGERS (EXCLUDING TRANSMIGRANTS) EMBARKED IN the United Kingdom during 1925, classified accoRDING TO NATIONALITY.