The Problem of the Immigrant: A Brief Discussion, with a Summary of Conditions, Laws, and Regulations Governing the Movement of Population to and from the British Empire, United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Denmark, Scandinavia and Russia |
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Act approved March admission agents alien American appointed Article Austria-Hungary Austrian authorities board of special British Canada certificate chief immigration officer citizens commission Commissioner of Immigration Commissioner-General of Immigration Commonwealth consignee contract Cunard Steamship Company deemed deported deposit districts duty embarkation emigrant traffic emigration agencies emigration business emigration law enforcement examination expense Federal Council Fiume Foreign Affairs foreign countries France furnished Government gration head tax Hungarian Hungary immi immigrant fund immigration officers imprisonment inspection Italian Italy labour or service land leave lists or manifests master ment Minister offence Orange River Colony owner passage passenger passport patent penalty person place of destination police population port of arrival prescribed prohibited immigrant punished purpose Regulations March 13 RULE Russia sailing Secretary ship special inquiry square miles steamship sub-agents supervision Swiss Switzerland territory thereof tickets tion transportation companies transportation of emigrants Treasury United Kingdom vessel violation Zealand
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Page 81 - ... the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States...
Page 79 - ... 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 88 - SEC. 9. That it shall be unlawful for any person, including any transportation company other than railway lines entering the United States from foreign contiguous territory...
Page 130 - The cost of their maintenance while on land, as well as the expense of the return of such aliens, shall be borne by the owner or owners of the vessels on which they respectively came...
Page 120 - Every alien who may not appear to the examining immigrant inspector at the port of arrival to be clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to land shall be detained for examination in relation thereto by a board of special inquiry.
Page 80 - ... the master, agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel 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.
Page 84 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the transportation, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United States...
Page 75 - The money thus collected shall be paid into the United States Treasury, and shall constitute a permanent appropriation to be called the "immigrant fund," to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury to defray the expense of regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States under...
Page 84 - 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.
Page 98 - States for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, and that also, according to the best of his knowledge and belief, the information in said lists or manifests concerning each of said aliens named therein Is correct and true in every respect. SEC. 14. That the surgeon of said vessel sailing therewith shall also sign each of said lists or manifests anil make oath or affirmation in like manner...