ACT OF 1906.

[Kentucky, Acts 1906, ch. 90, p. 367.]

AN ACT Creating a state board of agriculture, forestry, and immigration, specifying the duties thereof, and appropriating money therefor.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

SECTION 1. That sections 37 and 38 of chapter 4 of the Kentucky Statutes, being a part of an act of April 2, 1894, be, and the same is hereby, repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

SEC. 2. That there be, and is hereby, created a state board of agriculture, forestry, and immigration, to consist of nine members, namely, the commissioner of agriculture, labor, and statistics, ex officio chairman; the director of the Kentucky Experiment Station, at Lexington, Ky., an ex officio member, and one intelligent citizen from each of the appellate court districts in the State, to be selected and hold office as hereinafter provided; said members from the appellate districts to be experienced and practical farmers.

SEC. 3. Upon the passage of this act, the governor shall appoint, first, the director of the experiment station to serve until the 1st of January, 1908, and shall reappoint him every four years thereafter: Provided, That should the director of the experiment station resign or be removed from his office of director of said station, this fact shall terminate his membership on the said board, and the governor shall appoint his successor as director of the experiment station as his successor on said board; and, second, seven members, one from each appellate court district, two of whom shall serve until the 1st day of March, 1907; two of whom shall serve until the 1st day of March, 1908; and two of whom shall serve until the 1st day of March, 1909; and one of whom shall serve until the 1st day of March, 1910; or until their successors are elected and qualified, as provided hereinafter.

SEC. 10. Said board shall act as an immigration committee, and shall collect information as to wages paid for labor in the different sections of the State, and the kind of labor needed, and shall cause the same to be printed and distributed. It shall also ascertain the class of immigrants coming to this State, and shall collect statistics showing as nearly as possible the number of persons and their destination emigrating from the State, and the causes leading thereto. For the purposes specified in this section they may expend as much as two thousand dollars annually of the amount appropriated in this act, but it is not obligatory upon them to expend any portion of the appropriation unless, in their judgment, it is necessary to do so in the furtherance of the welfare of the State.

SEC. 11. The commissioner of agriculture, labor, and statistics may appoint a clerk and stenographers of the board, subject to the approval of said board. The clerk shall be an able, well-qualified man for the place, and shall give his entire time to the services of the State. He may act as an assistant commissioner or as an instructor at the county institutes, but shall receive no additional pay therefor, except his actual expenses, or perform other duties as

signed him by the commissioner. The commissioner shall collect each year a report of the work done by the state and county institutes, or such part of the work as he may deem valuable information for the citizens. Twenty-five thousand copies of his institute report shall be published annually in book form, and shall be distributed free as nearly as possible in proportion to the agricultural population of the several counties, and the board is hereby authorized to have same printed. The board may expend as much as three thousand dollars per annum for salaries of clerks and stenographers, which sum, or any part thereof, shall be paid out of the appropriation made for the use of this board.

SEC. 12. The members of this board shall receive five dollars per day and actual traveling expenses while attending meetings of the board, but the total number of days the board may be in session shall not exceed thirty per year.

SEC. 13. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of twenty thousand dollars per annum, in addition to the amount already appropriated for the benefit of the bureau of agriculture, labor, and statistics, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the use of the said bureau of agriculture, labor, and statistics. The clerk of the board shall certify to all expenditures of the board to the chairman, who, in turn, shall certify them to the governor for his approval, and upon his approval he shall authorize the auditor of public accounts to draw his warrant upon the treasurer for the amount.

SEC. 14. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.

Approved, March 21, 1906.

LOUISIANA.

DIGEST OF IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

Act of 1866 (an act to organize a bureau of immigration, to prescribe the duties thereof, and to provide for the expenses of the same). The act of 1866 granted power to establish a bureau of immigration in New Orleans for the purpose of encouraging immigration to the State by diffusing information abroad and protecting and assisting such immigrants as may settle therein. The governor shall appoint a bureau chief at the annual salary of $3,500. It shall be the duty of the chief to collect, compile, publish, and diffuse complete data about the State's interests, resources, and advantages.

Act of 1869 (an act to reorganize the bureau of emigration, and for measures to develop the resources and increase the population and wealth of the State).—The act of 1869 provides for the appointment of six commissioners of emigration "to attract emigration and capital to Louisiana, and to aid in developing her resources." The commissioners shall have general supervision of measures for inducing, regulating, or excluding immigration. Masters of vessels shall report general facts about foreign passengers entering Louisiana ports. Provision is made for bonds and commutation. Foreigners likely to become a public charge shall be excluded, unless bond is given to indemnify the State against expense. Provision shall be made for foreigners who may become public charges. Agents and clerks shall be appointed. An annual report shall be submitted to the legislature. The governor shall fill vacancies on the board. Penalties accruing shall be sued for and recovered. Commissioners shall not make contracts with the board. Property of deceased emigrants shall be duly cared for and distributed. The commissioners shall keep a complete register of emigrants; and shall publish statistical data about all matters of interest to the settler or investor. Emigrant depots shall be maintained and emigrants cared for temporarily. A labor exchange shall be conducted. Information about lands and homesteads shall be furnished emigrants.

Act of 1874.-The act of 1874 repeals the act of 1869, creating the commission of immigration, to establish a bureau of immigration, together with proper police regulations for the government, supervision, and protection of immigrants arriving at the port of New Orleans; to save the State harmless from the importation from foreign countries of such persons as are apt to become charges upon the State; and to increase the revenue of the Charity Hospital. The essential provisions are otherwise similar to those of the act repealed.

Act of 1894 (agriculture and immigration).-An act was passed in 1894 to create a bureau of agriculture and immigration; to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the appointment of a commissioner of agriculture and immigration; to fix his salary; and to provide for the expenses of the bureau.

IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

ACT OF 1869.

[Louisiana State Laws, 1866, No. 105, p. 198.]

AN ACT To organize a bureau of immigration, to prescribe the duties thereof, and to provide for the expenses of the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the State of Louisiana, in general assembly convened, That a bureau of immigration shall be, and is hereby, established in the city of New Orleans for the purpose of encouraging immigration to the State of Louisiana by diffusing information abroad and protecting and assisting such immigrants as may settle therein.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That the bureau established by the first section of this act shall be under the charge of a citizen of the State of Louisiana, who shall be entitled chief of bureau.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That the chief of said bureau of immigration shall be appointed by the governor of the State, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, for the term of two years, whose salary shall be thirty-five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly on his own warrant on the state treasurer, approved by the auditor of public accounts.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall be the duty of the chief of the bureau of immigration to collect and have published in English, French, and German, and such other languages as he may think proper, statistical information setting forth the advantages of soil, climate, and productions which Louisiana presents to the enterprising immigrant; to publish and distribute abroad, in the aforesaid languages and such others as he may select, this act of the general assembly, and all other acts thereof as may relate to the encouragement of immigration and the protection of the immigrant; to appoint agents of immigration in foreign countries, whose salaries shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars each per annum, and whose members shall not exceed five, to assist any and all immigrants from said countries who may desire to settle in Louisiana by giving counsel and information; in making contracts for public means of transportation; to bring to the port of New Orleans at the lowest rates of passage possible such immigrants as may elect to come to said port, and to make arrangements with steamboats, railroads, and other public means of transportation to convey immigrants who may elect to settle in Louisiana to their places of destination in a comfortable manner and at the least expense possible; to use every effort to inform, advise, and assist immigrants to Louisiana in order to protect them against imposition or false information; to negotiate with any steamship company to place a line of two or more steamers between New Orleans and Bremen and other foreign ports from which large numbers of persons emigrate to the United States; to visit and examine all vessels landing at the port of New Orleans which have immigrants on board, and to make a register of such immigrants, showing names, age, places of birth, sex, profession, trade, and destination, which register shall be filed in his office; to

report to the bureau of immigration of the United States at Washington City all infractions of the passenger acts of the United States; to make a report annually to the general assembly of the State of the number of immigrants who have arrived, with a tabular statement showing ages, places of birth, sex, trade, profession, and destination of all immigrants who may have arrived during the year at the port of New Orleans, together with such information and recommendations as in his opinion may promote immigration to the State of Louisiana, together with a full statement of the expenses and operations of the bureau: Provided, Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to make the State liable for the passage money of any immigrant coming into this State.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That the chief of bureau shall have power to appoint one or more clerks, as may be found necessary, not to exceed three, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and is hereby appropriated to pay the salaries of the chief of the bureau of immigration and expenses of said bureau, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

J. B. ELAM,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

AN ACT To reorganize the bureau of emigration and for measures to develop the resources and increase the population and wealth of the State of Louisiana.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the State of Louisiana in general assembly convened, That in order to attract emigration and capital to Louisiana and to aid in developing her resources, the governor is hereby authorized and directed, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint six commissioners, two of whom shall hold their office for the term of two years, two for four years, and two for six years, and upon the expiration of their several terms of office their places shall be filled, as aforesaid, for the term of six years. The governor of this State and the president of the German Society shall, by virtue of their respective offices, be commissioners as aforesaid. The said commissioners shall be known as the "commissioners of emigration," and by that title shall be capable of suing and being sued. The said commissioners shall appoint one of their number to act as president of