Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4421

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - Emigration and immigration law - 484 pages
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

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Page 226 - States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 124 - That the following -classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the united States : All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons, 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...
Page 133 - States, he shall cause such alien within the period of three years after landing or entry therein to be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came...
Page vi - ... anarchists, or persons who believe 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...
Page 113 - He shall establish such rules and regulations, prescribe such forms of bond, reports, entries and other papers, and shall issue from time to time such instructions, not inconsistent with law, as he shall deem best calculated for carrying out the provisions of this Act and for protecting the United States and aliens migrating thereto from fraud and loss...
Page 99 - ... shall certify, for the information of the immigration officers and the boards of special inquiry hereinafter provided for, any and all physical and mental defects or diseases observed by said medical officers in any such alien ; or, should medical officers of the United States Public Health Service be not available, civil surgeons of not less than four years...
Page 123 - ... agents of such vessel to adopt due precautions to prevent the landing of any alien immigrant at any place or time other than that designated by the inspection officers, and any such officer or agent or person in charge of such vessel who shall either knowingly or negligently land or permit to land any alien immigrant at any place or time other than that designated by the inspection officers shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by...
Page 295 - ... territories respectively; also to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce; and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation, respectively, shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce...
Page 123 - ... them thereon, or shall refuse or neglect to return them to the port from which they came, or to pay the cost of their maintenance while on land, such master...
Page 226 - State's, by vessel or otherwise, any alien not duly admitted by an immigrant inspector or not lawfully entitled to enter the United States...

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