SEC. 2. That the following classes of aliens
shall be excluded from admission into the
United States: All idiots, insane persons,
epileptics, and persons who have been insane
within five years previous; persons who have
had two or more attacks of insanity at any
time previously; paupers; persons likely to
become a public charge; professional beggars;
persons afflicted with a loathsome or with a
dangerous contagious disease; persons who
have been convicted of a felony or other crime
or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude;
polygamists, anarchists, or persons who be-
lieve in or advocate the overthrow by force or
violence of the Government of the United
States, or of all government or of all forms of
law, or the assassination of public officials;
prostitutes, and persons who procure or at-
tempt to bring in prostitutes or women for
the purpose of prostitution; persons whose
migration to the United States has been in-
duced by offers, solicitations, promises, or
agreements, parole or special, express or im-
plied, of labor or work, or service of any kind,
skilled or unskilled, in the United States, and
those who have been, within one year from the
date of the application for admission to the
United States, deported as being under offers,
solicitations, promises, or agreements to per-
form labor or service of some kind therein;
and also any person whose ticket or passage

Section 1, act approved March 3, 1891.

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

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled. That the following classes
of aliens shall be excluded from admission into
the United States, in accordance with the ex-
isting acts regulating immigration, other than
those concerning Chinese loborers: All idiots,
insane persons, paupers or persons likely to
become a public charge, persons suffering
from a loathsome or a dangerous contagious
disease, persons who have been convicted of a
felony or other infamous crime or misdemeanor
involving moral turpitude, polygamists, and
also any person whose ticket or passage is
paid for with the money of another or who is
assisted by others to come, unless it is affirma-
tively and satisfactorily shown on special
inquiry that such person does not belong to
one of the foregoing excluded classes, or to the
class of contract laborers excluded by the act
of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-five, but this section shall not be
held to exclude persons living in the United
States from sending for a relative or a friend
who is not of the excluded classes under such
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury

proval of the Secretary of the Treasury, by
agreement with [foreign transportation lines,
as provided in section [thirty-three] thirty-
four of this Act, may arrange in some other
manner for the payment of the duty imposed
by this section upon railway or other transporta-
tion lines bringing aliens [seeking admission
overland from Canada, Mexico, or Cuba, either
as to all or as to any such aliens.

SEC. 2. That the following classes of aliens
shall be excluded from admission into the
United States: All idiots, insane persons,
epileptics, and persons who have been insane
within five years previous; persons who have
had two or more attacks of insanity at any
time previously; paupers; persons likely to
become a public charge; persons afflicted with
a loathsome or with a dangerous contagious
disease; persons who have been convicted of
a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involv-
ing moral turpitude; polygamists; anarchists,
or persons who believe in or advocate the
overthrow by force or violence of all govern-
ment or of all forms of law, or the assassination
of public officials; prostitutes, and persons
who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes
or women for the purpose of prostitution; per-
sons whose migration to the United States
has been induced by offers, solicitations, prom-
ises, or agreements, parole or special, express
or implied, of labor or work, or service of any
kind, skilled or unskilled, in the United States,
and those who have been, within one year
from the date of the application for admission
to the United States, deported as being under
offers, solicitations, promises, or agreements
to perform labor or service of some kind there-
in; and also any person whose ticket or pas-
sage is paid for with the money of another, or
who is assisted by others to come, unless it is

is paid for with the money of another, or who
is assisted by others to come, unless it is af-
firmatively and satisfactorily shown that such
person does not belong to one of the foregoing
excluded classes; but this section shall not be
held to prevent persons living in the United
States from sending for a relative or friend
who is not of the foregoing excluded classes:
Provided, That nothing in this Act shall ex-
clude persons convicted of an offense purely
political, not involving moral turpitude: And
provided further, That skilled labor may be im-
ported, if labor of like kind can not be found
in this country: And provided further, That the
provisions of this law applicable to contract
labor shall not be held to exclude professional
actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of
any religious denomination, professors for col-
leges or seminaries, persons belonging to any
recognized learned profession, or persons em-
ployed strictly as personal or domestic serv-
ants.

may prescribe: Provided, That nothing in this
act shall be construed to apply to or exclude
persons convicted of a political offense, not-
withstanding said political offense may be
designated as a "felony, crime, infamous
crime, or misdemeanor, involving moral tur-
pitude" by the laws of the land whence he
came or by the court convicting.

Act of March 3, 1875, section 5.

SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for aliens
of the following classes to immigrate into the
United States, namely, persons who are under-
going a sentence for conviction in their own
country of felonious crimes other than polit-
ical offenses, or whose sentence has been re-
mitted on condition of their immigration, and
women "imported for the purposes of prosti-

tution."

Section 5, act of February 26, 1885.

SEC. 5. That nothing in this act shall be so
construed as to prevent any citizen or subject
of any foreign country temporarily residing in
the United States, either in private or official
capacity, from engaging, under contract or
otherwise, persons not residents or citizens of
the United States to act as private secretaries,
servants, or domestics for such foreigner tem-
porarily residing in the United States as afore-
said; nor shall this act be so construed as to
prevent any person, or persons, partnership,
or corporation from engaging, under contract
or agreement, skilled workmen in foreign
countries to perform labor in the United States
in or upon any new industry not at present
established in the United States: Provided,
That skilled labor for that purpose can not be
otherwise obtained; nor shall the provisions

affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that
such person does not belong to one of the fore-
going excluded classes; but this section shall
not be held to prevent persons living in the
United States from sending for a relative or
friend who is not of the foregoing excluded
classes: Provided, That nothing in this Act
shall exclude persons convicted of an offense
purely political, not involving moral turpi-
tude: And provided further, That skilled labor
may be imported, if labor of like kind unem-
ployed can not be found in this country: And
provided further, That the provisions of this
law applicable to contract labor shall not be
held to exclude professional actors, artists,
lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious
denomination, professors for colleges or semi
naries, persons belonging to any recognized
learned profession, or persons employed strictly
as personal or domestic servants.

Sec. 3. That to the classes of aliens now ex-
cluded by law from admission into the United
States there shall be added all aliens other than
citizens of the Dominion of Canada, or the Re-
public of Mexico, or the Republic of Cuba, or bona
fide residents of the said Dominion or Republics
for a continuous period of at least one year prior
to seeking entrance to the United States, who have
attained the age of fifteen years and can not read
the English language or some other language,
except as hereinafter provided; but any alien other
than Chinese persons or persons of Chinese de-
scent now lawfully resident in the United States,
or any alien who may hereafter be lawfully ad-
mitted thereto, may bring into the United States to
join him as members of his family his wife, his
children under eighteen years of age, and his par-
ents or grandparents over fifty years of age, if they

Sec. 3. That to the classes of aliens now ex-
cluded by law from admission into the United
States there shall be added all aliens other than
citizens of the Dominion of Canada, or the Re-
public of Mexico, or the Republic of Cuba, or bona
fide residents of the said Dominion or Republics
for a continuous period of at least one year prior
to seeking entrance to the United States, who have
attained the age of fifteen years and can not read
the English language or some other language,
except as hereinafter provided; but any alien other
than Chinese persons or persons of Chinese de-
scent now lawfully resident in the United States,
or any alien who may hereafter be lawfully ad-
mitted thereto, may bring into the United States to
join him as members of his family his wife, his
children under eighteen years of age, and his par-
ents or grandparents over fifty years of age, if they

are otherwise admissible, whether they are so able to read or not.

That for the purpose of testing the ability of any alien to read, the inspection officers shall be furnished with copies of the Constitution of the United States, on uniform pasteboard slips, each slip containing not less than twenty nor more than twenty-five words of said Constitution, printed in double small pica type, in the various languages of the countries from which aliens migrate to the United States, or which they profess their ability to read. Each alien shall be required to read the words printed on the slip in the language he may designate; and if he shall fail to read such words intelligibly he shall be refused admission and returned to the country whence he came at the expense of the vessel, transportation company, or corporation which brought him; and no two aliens listed on the same manifest shall be tested with the same slip: Provided, That any alien, other than a citizen of the Dominion of Canada or of the Republic of Mexico, or a bona fide resident of the same Dominion or Republic for a continuous period of at least one year, whether able to read the English language or some other language or not able to do so, who shall enter the United States except at the seaports thereof, or at Vanceboro, Calais, Houlton, Fort Fairfield, Lowelltown, Maine; Newport, Saint Albans, Alburgh, Island Pond, Richford, Vermont; Rouse Point, Malone, Fort Covington, Ogdensburg, Morristown, Nyando Bridge, Cape Vincent, Niagara Falls, Lewiston, Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Port Huron, or Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan; Pembina, North Dakota; Sumas, Washington; Laredo, El Paso, or Eagle Pass, Texas; or Nogales, Arizona, shall be adjudged to have entered the country unlawfully, and shall be deported as by law provided: Provided further, That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to affect the right of aliens who are seamen or members of railway train crews to pass freely

are otherwise admissible, whether they are so able to read or not.

That for the purpose of testing the ability of any alien to read, the inspection officers shall be furnished with copies of the Constitution of the United States, on uniform pasteboard slips, each slip containing not less than twenty nor more than twenty-five words of said Constitution, printed in double small pica type, in the various languages of the countries from which aliens migrate to the United States, or which they profess their ability to read. Each alien shall be required to read the words printed on the slip in the language he may designate; and if he shall fail to read such words intelligibly he shall be refused admission and returned to the country whence he came at the ex-. pense of the vessel, transportation company, or corporation which brought him; and no two aliens listed on the same manifest shall be tested with the same slip: Provided, That any alien, other than a citizen of the Dominion of Canada or of the Republic of Mexico, or a bona fide resident of the same Dominion or Republic for a continuous period of at least one year, whether able to read the English language or some other language or not able to do so, who shall enter the United States except at the seaports thereof, or at Vanceboro, Calais, Houlton, Fort Fairfield, Lowelltown, Maine; Newport, Saint Albans, Alburgh, Island Pond, Richford, Vermont; Rouse's Point, Malone, Fort Covington, Ogdensburg, Morristown, Nyando Bridge, Cape Vincent, Niagara Falls, Lewiston, Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Port Huron, or Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan; Pembina, North Dakota; Sumas, Washington; Laredo, El Paso, or Eagle Pass, Texas; or Nogales, Arizona, shall be adjudged to have entered the country unlawfully, and shall be deported as by law provided: Provided further, That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to affect the right of aliens who are seamen or members of railway train crews to pass freely

SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for any
person, company, partnership, or corporation,
in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the trans-
portation or in any way to assist or encourage
the importation or migration of any alien into
the United States, in pursuance of any offer.
solicitation, promise, or agreement, parole or
special, expressed or implied, made previous
to the importation of such alien to perform
labor or service of any kind, skilled or un-
skilled, in the United States.

ORIGINAL ACT.

SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the transportation or in any way to assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien [or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners] into the United States, in pursuance of any offer, solicitation, promise, or agreement, parole or special, expressed or implied, made previous to the importation of such alien [or alieus, foreigner or foreigners], to perform labor or service of any kind, skilled or unskilled, in the United States.