Government Pamphlets on Immigration, Volume 11911 - United States |
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... Europe the Catholic Church is being steadily dispossessed in Catholic countries of the control it once exercised ; and when in the United States the effects of democracy on the Catholic Church are plainly much wider and deeper than the ...
... Europe the Catholic Church is being steadily dispossessed in Catholic countries of the control it once exercised ; and when in the United States the effects of democracy on the Catholic Church are plainly much wider and deeper than the ...
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... European races would come to a natural end . People who exile themselves and encounter all the risks of a new start in life in a strange land must have some strong motive for such extraordinary conduct . At any rate , the decision . of ...
... European races would come to a natural end . People who exile themselves and encounter all the risks of a new start in life in a strange land must have some strong motive for such extraordinary conduct . At any rate , the decision . of ...
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... Europe . An amendment was offered by those opposed to the illiteracy test , providing for a commission for that purpose , and it was adopted . The commission , after nearly four years of investigation and study of the question both in ...
... Europe . An amendment was offered by those opposed to the illiteracy test , providing for a commission for that purpose , and it was adopted . The commission , after nearly four years of investigation and study of the question both in ...
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Like most of the immigration from southern and eastern Europe , those who entered the leading industries were largely single men or married men unaccompanied by their families . There is , of course , in practically all industrial ...
Like most of the immigration from southern and eastern Europe , those who entered the leading industries were largely single men or married men unaccompanied by their families . There is , of course , in practically all industrial ...
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... Europe had not then begun to affect economic conditions as they are now being affected . For the year 1910 the immigration was 1,041,570 , of whom 223,453 were from Italy alone . This was only about 7,000 less than the whole number that ...
... Europe had not then begun to affect economic conditions as they are now being affected . For the year 1910 the immigration was 1,041,570 , of whom 223,453 were from Italy alone . This was only about 7,000 less than the whole number that ...
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
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 10 - ... 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 customs district in which the port of arrival is...
Page 15 - ... no vessel shall be granted clearance papers pending the determination of the question of the liability to the payment of such fine, and in the event such fine is imposed, while it remains unpaid, nor shall such fine be remitted or refunded: Provided, That clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such questions upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine and costs, such sum to be named by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
Page 9 - ... 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 21 - When construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any...
Page 11 - ... name and complete address; whether ever before in the United States, and if so, when and where; whether ever in prison or almshouse or an institution or hospital for the care and treatment of the insane...
Page 18 - Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter the mode of appointing commissioners of immigration at the several ports of the United States as provided by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or the official status of such commissioners heretofore appointed.
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 15 - ... or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, or with any mental or physical disability which would bring such aliens within any of the classes excluded from admission to the United States under section three of this Act.
Page 16 - ... at any time within three years after entry, any alien who shall have entered the United States by water at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officials, or by...