SEC. 6. That for every violation of any of
the provisions of section five of this Act the
person, partnership, company, or corporation
violating the same, by knowingly assisting,
encouraging, or soliciting the migration or im-
portation of any alien to the United States to
perform labor or service of any kind by reason
of any offer, solicitation, promise, or agree-
ment, express or implied, parole or special, to
or with such alien, shall forfeit and pay for
every such offense the sum of one thousand
dollars, which may be sued for and recovered
by the United States, or by any person who
shall first bring his action therefor in his own
name and for his own benefit, including any
such alien thus promised labor or service of
any kind as aforesaid, as debts of like amount
are now recovered in the courts of the United
States; and separate suits may be brought for
each alien thus promised labor or service of
any kind as aforesaid. And it shall be the
duty of the district attorney of the proper dis-
trict to prosecute every such suit when brought
by the United States.

SEC. 7. That it shall be unlawful and be deemed a violation of section five of this Act to assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien by a promise of employ

parol or special, express or implied, made previous to the importation or migration of such alien or aliens, foreigner or foreigners, to perform labor or service of any kind in the United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia.

Section 3, act of February 26, 1885.

SEC. 3. That for every violation of any of
the provisions of section one of this act the
person, partnership, company, or corporation
violating the same, by knowingly assisting,
encouraging or soliciting the migration or im-
portation of any alien or aliens, foreigner or
foreigners, into the United States, its Terri-
tories, or the District of Columbia, to perform
labor or service of any kind under contract or
agreement, express or implied, parol or special,
with such alien or aliens, foreigner or foreign-
ers, previous to becoming residents or citizens
of the United States, shall forfeit and pay for
every such offense the sum of one thousand
dollars, which may be sued for and recovered
by the United States or by any person who
any such alien or foreigner who may be a
shall first bring his action therefor, including
party to any such contract or agreement, as
debts of like amount are now recovered in the
circuit courts of the United States; the pro-
ceeds to be paid into the Treasury of the
United States; and separate suits may be
brought for each alien or foreigner being a
party to such contract or agreement aforesaid.
And it shall be the duty of the district attor-
ney of the proper district to prosecute every
such suit at the expense of the United States.

Act of March 3, 1891, section 6.

SEC. 6. That any person who shall bring into or land in the United States by vessel or other

SEC. 6. That for every violation of any of
the provisions of section five of this Act the
person, partnership, company, or corporation
violating the same, by knowingly assisting,
encouraging, or soliciting the migration or im-
portation of any alien [or aliens, foreigner or
foreigners, to the United States to perform
labor or service of any kind by reason of any
offer, solicitation, promise, or agreement, ex-
press or implied, parole or special, to or with
such alien or aliens, [foreigner or foreigners,]
shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the
sum of one thousand dollars, which may be
sued for and recovered by the United States,
or by any person who shall first bring his ac-
tion therefor in his own name and for his own
benefit, including any such alien [or foreigner]
thus promised labor or service of any kind as
aforesaid, as debts of like amount are now re-
covered in the courts of the United States;
and separate suits may be brought for each
alien or foreigner] thus promised labor or
service of any kind as aforesaid. And it shall
be the duty of the district attorney of the
proper district to prosecute every such suit
when brought by the United States.

SEC. 9. That any person, including the master, agent, owner, or consignee of any vessel, who shall bring into or land in the United States, by vessel or otherwise, or who shall

ment through advertisements printed and
published in any foreign country; and any
alien coming to this country in consequence
of such an advertisement shall be treated as
coming under a promise or agreement as con-
templated in section two of this Act, and the
penalties imposed by section six of this Act
shall be applicable to such a case: Provided,
That this section shall not apply to States or
Territories, the District of Columbia, or places
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States
advertising the inducements they offer for im-
migration thereto, respectively.

SEC. 8. That no transportation company or
owner or owners of vessels or others engaged
in transporting aliens into the United States
shall, directly or through agents, either by
writing, printing, or oral representations, so-
licit, invite, or encourage the immigration of
any aliens into the United States except by
ordinary commercial letters, circulars, adver-
tisements, or oral representations, stating the
sailings of their vessels and terms and facili-
ties of transportation therein; and for a viola-
tion of this provision any such transportation
company and any such owner or owners of
vessels, and all others engaged in transport-
ing aliens to the United States, and the agents
by them employed, shall be subjected to the
penalties imposed by section six of this Act.

SEC. 9. That any person, including the mas-
ter, agent, owner, or consignee of any vessel,
who shall willfully bring into or land in the
United States, by vessel or otherwise, or who
shall willfully attempt, by himself or through
another, to bring into or land in the United
States, by vessel or otherwise, any alien not
duly admitted by an immigrant inspector, or
not lawfully entitled to enter the United

SEC. 3. That it shall be deemed a violation
of said act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-five, to assist or encour-
age the importation or migration of any alien
by promise of employment through advertise-
ments printed and published in any foreign
country; and any alien coming to this country
in consequence of such an advertisement shall
be treated as coming under a contract as con-
templated by such act; and the penalties by
said act imposed shall be applicable in such a
case: Provided, This section shall not apply to
States and immigration bureaus of States ad-
vertising the inducements they offer for immi-
gration to such States.

attempt, by himself or through another, to
bring into or land in the United States, by
vessel or otherwise, any alien not duly admit-
ted by an immigrant inspector, or not lawfully
entitled to enter the United States, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on
conviction, be punished by a fine not exceed-
ing one thousand dollars for each and every
alien so landed or attempted to be landed, or
by imprisonment for a term not [exceeding one
year] less than three months nor more than two
years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 7. That it shall be unlawful and be
deemed a violation of section five of this Act
to assist or encourage the imporation or mi-
gration of any alien by a promise of employ-
ment through advertisements printed and pub-
lished in any foreign country; and any alien
coming to this country in consequence of such
an advertisement shall be treated as coming
under a promise or agreement as contemplated
in section two of this Act, and the penalties
imposed by section six of this Act shall be ap-
plicable to such a case: Provided, That this
section shall not apply to States or Territories,
the District of Columbia, or [place] places sub-
ject to the jurisdiction of the United States
advertising the inducements they offer for im-
migration thereto, respectively.

SEC. 8. That no transportation company or
owner or owners of vessels or others engaged
in transporting aliens into the United States,
shall, directly or through agents, either by
writing, printing, or oral representations,
solicit, invite, or encourage the immigration
of any aliens into the United States except by
ordinary commercial letters, circulars, adver-
tisements, or oral representations, stating the

States, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished
by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars
for each and every alien so landed or attempted
to be landed, or by imprisonment for a term
not less than three months nor more than two
years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 10. That it shall be unlawful for any
person, including any transportation company
other than railway lines entering the United
States from foreign contiguous territory, or
the owner, master, agent, or consignee of any
vessel, to bring to the United States any idiot,
insane alien, or any alien afflicted with a
loathsome or with a dangerous contagious dis-
ease; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction
of the Secretary of the Treasury that any alien
so brought to the United States was afflicted
with such a disease at the time of foreign em-
barkation, and that the existence of such dis-
ease might have been detected by means of a
competent medical examination at such time,
such person or transportation company or the
master, agent, owner, or consignee of any
such vessel shall pay to the collector of cus-
toms for the customs district in which the
port of arrival is located the sum of one hun-
dred dollars for each and every violation of
the provisions of this section; and no vessel
shall be granted clearance papers while any
such sum remains unpaid.

SEC. 11. That the decision of the board of
special inquiry, hereinafter provided for, based
upon the certificate of the examining medical
officer, shall be final as to the rejection of aliens
afflicted with a loathsome or with a dangerous
contagious disease, or with any mental or phys-

resentations, stating the sailings of their ves-
sels and the terms and facilities of transpor-
tation therein; and for a violation of this pro-
vision any such steamship or transportation
company, and any such owners of vessels, and
the agents by them employed, shall be sub-
jected to the penalties imposed by the third
section of said act of February twenty-sixth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for viola-
tions of the provisions of the first section of
said act.

[There is no existing legislation providing
for other punishment for bringing diseased
aliens to the United States than the return of
such aliens to the country whence they came.]

[No existing legislation upon this point.]

sailings of their vessels and terms and facili-
ties of transportation therein; and for a viola-
tion of this provision any such transportation
company and any such owner or owners of
vessels, and all others engaged in transport-
ing aliens to the United States, and the agents
by them employed, shall be subjected to the
penalties imposed by section six of this Act.

SEC. 10. That it shall be unlawful for any
transportation company or the owner, master,
agent, or consignee of any vessel to bring to
any port within the United States any idiot or
insane alien, or any alien afflicted with a loath-
some or with a dangerous contagious disease;
and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the
Secretary of the Treasury that any alien so
brought to a port of the United States was
afflicted with such a disease at the time of for-
eign embarkation, and that the existence of
such disease might have been detected by
means of a competent medical examination at
such time, such transportation company or the
master, agent, owner, or consignee of any
such vessel shall pay to the collector of cus-
toms of the customs district in which the port
of arrival is located the sum of one hundred
dollars for each and every violation of the
provisions of this section; and no vessel shall
be granted clearance papers while any such
[fine imposed upon it] sum remains unpaid,
nor [shall such fine] shall the same be remitted.

SEC. 11. That the decision of the board of
special inquiry, hereinafter provided for, based
upon the certificate of the examining medical
officer, shall be final as to the rejection of aliens
afflicted with a loathsome or with a dangerous
contagious disease, or with any mental or phys-

ical disability which would bring such aliens
within any of the classes excluded from admis-
sion to the United States under section two of
this Act.

SEC. 12. That upon the certificate of a medi-
cal officer of the United States Marine-Hospital
Service to the effect that a rejected alien is
helpless from sickness, physical disability, or
infancy, if such alien is accompanied by
another alien whose protection or guardian-
ship is required by such rejected alien, the
master, agent, owner, or consignee of the ves-
sel in which such alien and accompanying
alien are brought shall be required to return
said alien and accompanying alien in the same
manner as vessels are required to return other
rejected aliens.

SEC. 13. That upon the arrival of any alien
by water at any port within the United States
it shall be the duty of the master or command-
ing officer of the steamer, sailing or other ves-
sel, having said alien on board to deliver to
the immigration officers at the port of arrival
lists or manifests made at the time and place
of embarkation of such alien on board such
steamer or vessel, which shall, in answer to
questions at the top of said lists, state as
to each alien the full name, age, and sex;
whether married or single; the calling or occu-
pation; whether able to read or write; the
nationality; the race; the last residence; the
seaport for landing in the United States;
the final destination, if any, beyond the port
of landing; whether having a ticket through
to such final destination; whether the alien
has paid his own passage, or whether it has
been paid by any other person or by any cor-
poration, society, municipality, or govern-
ment, and if so, by whom; whether in posses-
sion of fifty dollars, and if less, how much;
whether going to join a relative or friend,

[No existing legislation upon this point.]

Section 1, act of March 3, 1893.

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

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That, in addition to conform-
ing to all present requirements of law, upon
the arrival of any alien immigrants by water
at any port within the United States, it shall
be the duty of the master or commanding
officer of the steamer or sailing vessel having
said immigrants on board to deliver to the
proper inspector of immigration at the port
lists or manifests made at the time and place
of embarkation of such alien immigrants on
board such steamer or vessel, which shall, in
answer to questions at the top of said lists,
state as to each immigrant the full name, age,
and sex, whether married or single; the call-
ing or occupation; whether able to read or
write; the nationality; the last residence; the
seaport for landing in the United States; the
final destination, if any, beyond the seaport

ical disability which would bring such aliens within any of the classes excluded from admission to the United States under section two of this Act.

SEC. 12. That upon the certificate of a med-
ical officer of the United States Marine-Hospital
Service to the effect that a rejected alien is
helpless from sickness, physical disability, or
infancy, if such alien is accompanied by a per
son whose protection or guardianship is re-
quired by such rejected alien, the master, agent,
owner, or consignee of the vessel in which
such alien and accompanying person [is] are
brought shall be required to return said alien
and accompanying person in the same manner
as vessels are required to return other rejected
aliens.

SEC. 13. That upon the arrival of any alien or
aliens by water at any port within the United
States it shall be the duty of the master or com-
manding officer of the steamer, sailing or other
vessel, having said alien or aliens on board to
deliver to the immigration officers at the port
of arrival lists or manifests made at the time
and place of embarkation of such alien or
aliens on board such steamer or vessel, which
shall, in answer to questions at the top of said
lists, state as to each alien the full name, age,
and sex; whether married or single; the call-
ing or occupation; whether able to read or
write; the nationality; [the last residence]
the race; [the race] the last residence; the
seaport for landing in the United States; the
final destination, if any, beyond the port of
landing; whether having a ticket through to
such final destination; whether the alien has
paid his own passage, or whether it has been
paid by any other person or by any corpora-
tion, society, municipality, or government,
and if so, by whom; whether in possession of
[money] fifty dollars or upwards, and if [so]

Act of March 3, 1893.