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IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS.

IMMIGRATION LAWS.

NOTE. There are incorporated in this pamphlet only Note as to acts published such portions of the enactments of Congress regarding herein. immigration prior to the immigration act of February 20, 1907, as are not repealed thereby or reenacted therein. If necessary to refer to the old acts, they may be found in the pamphlets "Immigration Laws and Regulations" heretofore issued, or in the United States Statutes at Large, as follows:

Act approved March 3, 1875: 18 Stat., part 3, page 477.
Act approved August 3, 1882: 22 Stat., page 214.

Act approved June 26, 1884 (sec. 22 only): 23 Stat., page 58.
Act approved February 26, 1885: 23 Stat., page 332.
Act approved February 23, 1887: 24 Stat., page 414.
Act approved October 19, 1888: 25 Stat., page 565.
Act approved March 3, 1891: 26 Stat., page 1084.

Act approved February 15, 1893 (sec. 7): 27 Stat., page 449.
Act approved March 3, 1893: 27 Stat., page 569.

Act approved August 18, 1894: 28 Stat., page 390.
Act approved March 2, 1895: 28 Stat., page 780.

Act approved June 6, 1900: 31 Stat., page 611.

Act approved April 29, 1902: 32 Stat., part 1, page 176.
Act approved March 3, 1903: 32 Stat., part 1, page 1213.
Act approved March 22, 1904: 33 Stat., part 1, page 144.
Act approved April 28, 1904: 33 Stat., part 1, page 591.
Act approved February 3, 1905: 33 Stat., part 1, page 684.

List of immigration acts.

ACT OF AUGUST 3, 1882.

AN ACT to regulate immigration.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of fifty cents for each and every passenger not a citizen of the United States who shall come by steam or sail vessel from a foreign port to any port within the

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owner, agent, or consignee of every such vessel, within twenty-four hours after the entry thereof into such port. consti- The money thus collected shall be paid into the United States Treasury and shall constitute a fund to be called the immigrant fund and shall be used, under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, to defray the expense of regulating immigration under this act and for the care of immigrants arriving in the United States, for the relief of such as are in distress, and for the general purposes and expenses of carrying this act collec- into effect. The duty imposed by this section shall be a tion enforced. lien upon the vessels which shall bring such passengers

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into the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against the owner or owners of such vessels, and the payment of such duty may be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy: Provided, That no greater sum shall be expended for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, at any port, than shall have been collected at such port.a

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ACT OF FEBRUARY 26, 1885.

AN ACT to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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SEC. 2. That all contracts or agreements, express or implied, parol or special, which may hereafter be made by for alien labor and between any person, company, partnership, or corporation, and any foreigner or foreigners, alien or aliens, to perform labor or service or having reference to the performance of labor or service by any person in the United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia, previous to the migration or importation of the person or persons whose labor or service is contracted for into the United States, shall be utterly void and of no effect."

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See sections 2, 4, 5, and 6, act February 20, 1907.

ACT OF MARCH 3, 1891.

AN ACT in amendment to the various acts relative to immigration and the importation of aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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SEC. 7. That the office of superintendent of immigra- Superintendtion is hereby created and established, and the President, tion: by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized and directed to appoint such officer, whose salary ateaiary fixed. shall be four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. The superintendent of immigration shall be an officer in the Treasury Department, under the control and supervision of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, to whom he shall make annual reports in writing of the transactions of his office, together with such special reports, in writing, as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall require. The Secretary shall provide the superintendent with a suitably furnished office in the city of Washington, and with such books of record and facilities for the discharge of the duties of his office as may be necessary. He shall have a chief clerk at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and two firstclass clerks.a

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ACT OF FEBRUARY 15, 1893.

AN ACT granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine-Hospital Service.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*

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SEC. 7. That whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the President that by reason of the existence of cholera, or other infectious or contagious diseases, in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of the same into the United States, and that notwithstanding the quarantine defense this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce the same is demanded, in the interest of the public health, the President shall have power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate and for such period of time as he may deem necessary.

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Approved February 15, 1893 (27 Stat., 449).

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ACT OF MARCH 3, 1893.

AN ACT to facilitate the enforcement of the immigration and contract-labor laws of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * * *

SEC. 8. That all steamship or transportation companies, Required of and other owners of vessels, regularly engaged in transpanies re cost: porting alien immigrants to the United States, shall twice ing laws in a year file a certificate with the Secretary of Commerce foreign offices; and Labor that they have furnished to be kept conspicu

ously exposed to view in the office of each of their agents in foreign countries authorized to sell emigrant tickets, a copy of the law of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of all subsequent laws of this country relative to immigration, printed in large letters, in the language of the country where the copy of the law is to be exposed to view, and that they have instructed their agents to call the attention thereto of persons contemplating emigration before selling tickets to them; and in Penalty for case of the failure for sixty days of any such company or any such owners to file such a certificate, or in case they file a false certificate, they shall pay a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the proper United States court, and said fine shall also be a lien upon any vessel of said company or owners found within the United States."

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Approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stat., 569).

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ACT OF AUGUST 18, 1894.

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * * *

The commissioners of immigration at the several ports of immigration: shall be appointed by the President, by and with the Appointed by advice and consent of the Senate, to hold their offices for the term of four years, unless sooner removed, and until their successors are appointed; and nominations for such offices shall be made to the Senate by the President as soon as practicable after the passage of this act." Approved August 18, 1894 (28 Stat., 372).

a See Rule 44 for time of filing.

See section 7, act March 3, 1891, and section 22, act February 20, 1907.

ACT OF MARCH 2, 1895.

AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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That the Superintendent of Immigration shall here- General: after be designated as Commissioner-General of Immi- Title gration, and, in addition to his other duties, shall have ated: Administracharge, under the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of tion contractthe administration of the alien contract-labor laws, etc.a labor placed under; Approved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 764).

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ACT OF JUNE 6, 1900.

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, and hereafter the Commissioner-General clusion laws of Immigration, in addition to his other duties, shall have placed under. charge of the administration of the Chinese-exclusion law and of the various acts regulating immigration into the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia, under the supervision and direction of the Secre tary of Commerce and Labor.

Approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 611).

ACT OF APRIL 29, 1902.

AN ACT to prohibit the coming into and to regulate the residence within the United States, its Territories, and all territory under its jurisdiction, and the District of Columbia, of Chinese and persons of Chinese descent.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * * *

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SEC. 3. That nothing in the provisions of this Act or any other Act shall be construed to prevent, hinder, or Exceptions restrict any foreign exhibitor, representative, or citizen in favor of exof any foreign nation, or the holder, who is a citizen of hibitors at.

a See section 7, act March 3, 1891, and section 22, act February 20, 1907.

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