Modified Percentage Plan for Restriction of Immigration: Hearings...May 22, 1920 |
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... might have been detected by means of a competent medical examination at such time , such person or transportation company , or the master , agent , owner , or consignee of any such vessel shall pay to the collector of customs of the ...
... might have been detected by means of a competent medical examination at such time , such person or transportation company , or the master , agent , owner , or consignee of any such vessel shall pay to the collector of customs of the ...
Common terms and phrases
ability to read act of February admission admitted agricultural ALBERT JOHNSON alien entering amended to read American American-born children amount of immigration amount of unemployment assimilate cent CHAIRMAN Chinese Government cities citizens citizenship collector of customs commission Congress constitute group unity Doukhobors English language entering the United Europe excluding agriculturists facts favor February 18 fiscal foreign gentlemen's agreement Georgian given ethnic group GULICK Hutterites illiterates immigration board immigration laws irritating Italy Japanese Government June 29 Let me ask literacy test live matter maximum number maximum permissible immigration Mennonites native Hawaiian number of aliens officials passports percentage permanent secretary persons physical defect polygamy population port of arrival port of entry proposed bill RAKER read as follows read English regard regulations repeal residing in continental Russia Secretary of Labor statement statistics SwOPE term ethnic group tion transients transportation company unlawful WELTY
Popular passages
Page 8 - ... resided continuously within the United States five years at least, and within (he State or Territory where such court is at the time held one year at least, and that during that time he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Page 6 - ... persons who are members of or affiliated with any organization entertaining and teaching disbelief in or opposition to organized government, or who advocate or teach 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 or of any other organized government...
Page 7 - ... might have been detected by means of a competent medical examination at such time, such person shall pay to the collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of...
Page 6 - States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials ; prostitutes, or women or girls coming into the United States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose...
Page 6 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown, on special inquiry, that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes...
Page 7 - ... collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every violation of the provisions of this section...
Page 6 - ... 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 or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character, shall be permitted to enter the United States or any Territory or place subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
Page 8 - of section 4 of the Act of June 29, 1906, entitled "An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and to provide a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States...
Page 6 - ... persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease...
Page 7 - Provided further, That nothing contained in this section shall be construed to subject transportation companies to a fine for bringing to ports of the United States aliens who are by any of the provisos or exceptions to section 3 of this Act exempted from the excluding provisions of said section.