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termination of the war apply for readmission to this country, after being honorably discharged or granted furlough abroad by the proper military or naval authorities, or after being rejected on final examination in connection with their enlistment or conscription, shall, within two years after the termination of the war, be readmitted; and that any alien of either of the foregoing descriptions who would otherwise be excluded under said section of the Immigration Act on the ground that he is idiotic, imbecile, feeble-minded, epileptic, insane, or has had one or more attacks of insanity, or on the ground that he is afflicted with constitutional psychopathic inferiority, tuberculosis, a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, or mental defect, shall be readmitted if it is proved that the disability was acquired while the alien was serving in the military or naval forces of the United States or of any one of the nations cobelligerent of the United States in the present war or in an independent force of the kind hereinbefore described, if such alien returns to a port of the United States within two years after the termination of the war, and that the head tax provided in the Immigration Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not be collected from aliens. readmitted into the United States under the provisions of this resolution.

Approved October 19, 1918.

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AN ACT TO DEPORT CERTAIN UNDESIRABLE ALIENS AND TO DENY READMISSION

TO THOSE DEPORTED

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That aliens of the following classes in addition to those for whose expulsion from the United States provision is made in the existing law, shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into his custody and deported in the manner

For the purposes of this resolution, the war ended March 3, 1921. (Pub. Res. 64, approved March 31, 1921, vol. 41, Stat. L., p. 1359.)

provided in sections 19 and 20 of the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States," if the Secretary of Labor, after hearing, finds that such aliens are undesirable residents of the United States, to wit:

(1) All aliens who are now interned under section 4067 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the proclamations issued by the President in pursuance of said section under date of April 6, 1917, November 16, 1917, December 11, 1917, and April 19, 1918, respectively.

(2) All aliens who since August 1, 1914, have been or may hereafter be convicted of any violation or conspiracy to violate any of the following acts or parts of acts, the judgment on such conviction having become final, namely:

(a) An act entitled "An act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes," approved June 15, 1917, or the amendment thereof approved May 16, 1918;

(b) An act entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes," approved October 6, 1917;

(c) An act entitled "An act to prevent in time of war departure from and entry into the United States contrary to the public safety," approved May 22, 1918;

(d) An act entitled "An act to punish the wilful injury or destruction of war material or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes," approved April 20, 1918;

(e) An act entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto;

(f) An act entitled "An act to punish persons who make threats against the President of the United States," approved February 14, 1917;

(g) An act entitled "An act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes," approved October 6, 1917, or any amendment thereof;

(h) Section 6 of the Penal Code of the United States.

(3) All aliens who have been or may hereafter be convicted of any offense against section 13 of the said Penal Code committed during the period of August 1, 1914, to April 6, 1917, or of a conspiracy occurring within said period to commit an offense under said section 13, or of any offense committed during said period against the act entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," approved July 2, 1890, in aid of a belligerent in the European war.

Sec. 2. That in every case in which any such alien is ordered expelled or excluded from the United States under the provisions of this act the decision of the Secretary of Labor shall be final.

Sec. 3. That in addition to the aliens who are by law now excluded from admission into the United States all persons who shall be expelled under any of the provisions of this act shall also be excluded from readmission.

Approved May 10, 1920.

AN ACT APPROVED JUNE 5, 1920

An Act To amend section 3 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States," approved February 5, 1917. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States," approved February 5, 1917, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

Provided further, That an alien who can not read may, if otherwise admissible, be admitted if, within five years after this act becomes law, a citizen of the United States who has served in the military or naval forces of the United States during the war with the Imperial German Government, requests that such alien be admitted, and with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, marries such alien at a United States immigration station.

Approved June 5, 1920.

APPENDIX B

AN ACT APPROVED MAY 19, 1921, AS AMENDED BY PUBLIC RESOLUTION NO. 55,

APPROVED MAY 11, 1922

An Act To limit the immigration of aliens into the United States.* 47

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of the act entitled "An act to limit the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved May 19, 1921, is extended to and including June 30, 1924.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That as used in this act

The term "United States" means the United States, and any waters, territory, or other place subject to the jurisdiction thereof except the Canal Zone and the Philippine Islands; but if any alien leaves the Canal Zone or any insular possession of the United States and attempts to enter any other place under the jurisdiction of the United States nothing contained in this act shall be construed as permitting him to enter under any other conditions than those applicable to all aliens.

The word "alien " includes any person not a native-born or naturalized citizen of the United States, but this definition shall not be held to include Indians of the United States not taxed nor citizens of the islands under the jurisdiction of the United States.

The term "Immigration Act" means the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States "; and the term "immigration laws" includes such act and all laws, conventions, and treaties of the United States relating to the immigration, exclusion, or expulsion of aliens.

"Regulations provided.

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