competent person as commissioner of immigration, labor, and statistics, who shall have charge of said bureau, and who shall hold his office for the term provided in said article 13 of the constitution. He shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year and all necessary traveling expenses not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum while traveling in the discharge of his official duties, to be paid as is the salary and fees of other State officers. The secretary of state shall provide suitable room for the use of said bureau and furnish the necessary fuel, light, and appurtenances. All books, papers, and documents in the office of said commissioner shall be deemed public records of the State and shall be transferred by him to his successor in office.

SEC. 3. It shall be, and is hereby, made the duty of said commissioner to collect and compile all reliable data and information at his command concerning the climate, soil, and various resources of the State; its agricultural, horticultural, mineral, timber, and grazing lands, and industries, and the development thereof; the water courses and lakes of the State in reference to irrigation, manufacturing, mechanical, and other uses; the various crop products and the adaptability of different soils and localities for the production of different crops; the number, kinds, and value of domestic animals in the State, with the useful information regarding the same; the number of public schools, educational institutions, churches, charitable and fraternal organizations; health and pleasure resorts and health statistics of the State; the number and mileage of railroads and other transportation lines; the number and capacity of irrigation canals and the lands covered by the same; the number and location of newspapers and periodicals in the State; the amount of public and school lands and that belonging to various public institutions of the State; the wages and hours of labor, both skilled and common, and its relation to capital; and, generally, any information which, if disseminated abroad, would tend to the development of the State by inducing population and capital within its borders. Said commissioner shall also inform himself in regard to suitable locations. for agricultural and horticultural colonies in the State, and use all facilities at his command for encouraging and promoting desirable enterprises of this kind. To this end, he shall endeavor to secure low rates of transportation favorable to immigrants by urging the cooperation of railroads and other corporations interested in the settlement of the State. He shall also open correspondence with, and answer any and all inquiries from, those seeking information in regard to the resources of the State.

SEC. 4. In order to enable said commissioner to secure the aboverequired information, he is hereby clothed with the power to call upon officers of State, county assessors, superintendents of public instruction, and other officers for such information as he may desire and deem valuable in his department.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to keep in his office for exhibit such samples of the productions of the State, including grains, grasses, fruits, vegetables, minerals, manufactured articles, and other products as may be contributed by towns and counties, without expenses to the State, the same to be arranged

so that each town or county shall receive due credit therefor. He shall, whenever practicable, organize and encourage local exhibits at such points as would tend to advertise the resources of the State, and whenever funds are available for such purposes shall also make, or cause to be made, exhibits of the products and industries of the State at such industrial and international exhibitions in other States as the governor shall direct.

SEC. 6. Said commissioner shall cause to be printed and distributed such pamphlets, circulars, cards, and maps, and to publish from time to time through the public press such information as, in the judgment of said commissioner, would tend to carry out the objects sought by this act and result in the largest possible benefit to the State.

SEC. 7. Said commissioner shall receive the salary and mileage hereinbefore provided for and be allowed the actual cost of the printing and supplies necessary for the publication and distribution of the matter heretofore mentioned: Provided, That the allowance for such printing and supplies shall not exceed the aggregate sum of two thousand dollars in any one year.

SEC. 8. The commissioner shall, on or before the 1st day of January in each year, transmit to the governor a full and complete report of the doings of his office (including a tabulated statement of all statistics accumulated in his office) and a detailed and itemized account of the expenses thereof.

SEC. 9. The commissioner shall collect information on the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor, and the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity, and assort, systemize, print, and present in annual reports to the governor on or before the 1st day of January in each year statistical details relating to all departments of labor in this State, including the penal institutions thereof, particularly concerning hours of labor, the number of laborers and mechanics employed, the number of apprentices in each trade, with the nativity of such laborers, mechanics, and apprentices, wages earned, the savings from the same, the culture, moral and mental, with age and sex, of laborers employed, and number and character of accidents, the sanitary conditions of institutions and other places where labor is employed, as well as the influence of the several kinds of labor and the use of intoxicating liquors upon the health and mental condition of the laborer, the restrictions, if any, which are put upon apprentices when indentured, the proportion of married laborers and mechanics who live in rented houses, with the annual rental of same, the average number of members in the families of married laborers and mechanics; the value of property owned by laborers and mechanics, together with the value of property owned by such laborers or mechanics (if foreign-born) upon their arrival in this country, and the length of time they have resided here, the subject of cooperation, strikes, and other labor difficulties, trades unions, and other labor organizations, and their effect upon labor and capital, with such other matter relating to the commercial, industrial, and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and permanent prosperity of the respective industries of the State, as such bureau may be able

to gather, accompanied by such recommendations relating thereto as the bureau shall deem proper.

SEC. 10. That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the salary of said commissioner and the expenses of his office, as in this act provided, for the period of two years from and after this act shall take effect.

SEC. 11. Whereas an emergency exists, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, March 2, 1899.

INDIANA.

DIGEST OF IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAW.

Act of 1885 (an act to prohibit the importation and migration of aliens, foreigners, and others under contract or agreement to perform labor within the State of Indiana).-The tide of immigration flowing westward from eastern seaports of the United States has required legislative restriction rather than acceleration by the people of Indiana. Accordingly, an act was passed in 1885 to "prohibit the importation and migration of aliens, foreigners, and others under contract or agreement to perform labor within the State of Indiana." Any contracts for labor or service made with proposed immigrants prior to becoming residents or citizens of this country shall be void. And any persons or association of persons violating this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined from $100 to $5,000. Temporary foreign residents of the United States may contract for secretaries, servants, or domestics. Skilled labor not available in this country may be employed under contract. Professional actors, artists, singers, lecturers, and personal and domestic servants are excepted from the operation of this law. Individuals may assist relatives and friends to migrate to the State to settle.

IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAW.

ACT OF 1885.

[Indiana State Laws, 1885, ch. 51, p. 153.]

AN ACT To prohibit the importation and migration of aliens, foreigners, and others under contract or agreement to perform labor within the State of Indiana.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana:

SECTION 1. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsover, to prepay transportation or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the State of Indiana under contract or agreement, 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 this State.

SEC. 2. That all contracts or agreements, express or implied, parol or special, which may hereafter be made by 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 State of Indiana 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.

SEC. 3. That for every violation of any of the provisions of section 1 of this act the person, partnership, company, or corporation violating the same by knowingly assisting, encouraging, or soliciting migration or importation of any alien or aliens, or of any foreigner or foreigners, into the State of Indiana 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 foreigners, previous to becoming residents or citizens of the United States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars.

SEC. 4. 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 a 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 temporarily residing in the United States, nor shall this 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 State of Indiana in or upon any new industry not at present established in the State: Provided, That skilled labor for that purpose can not otherwise be obtained; nor shall the provisions of this act apply to professional actors, artists, lecturers, or singers, nor to persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting any individual from assisting any member of his family, or relative, or personal friend to migrate from any foreign country to the State for the purpose of settlement here.

Approved, April 8, 1885.