Immigration Laws and Regulations, March 11, 1893U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - 16 pages |
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act of February act of March ACT to prohibit agent agreement to perform alien immigrants alien or aliens aliens under contract almshouse amended America in Congress appeal become a public collector of customs commanding officer Congress assembled consignee contract or agreement decision deemed guilty District of Columbia dollars duty eighteen hundred enter the United expense express or implied February twenty-sixth final destination foreign port foreigner or foreigners foreigners and aliens hereby hundred and eighty-five hundred and ninety-one immi immigrants on board immigration of foreigners importation or migration inspec inspection officers labor or service lists or manifests MARCH 11 March third master or commanding misdemeanor moral turpitude parol or special passengers named therein perform labor permitted to land person or persons polygamist port of arrival public charge Secretary Senate and House ship or vessel special inquiry steamship or transportation superintendent of immigration surgeon ticket tion TREASURY DEPARTMENT violation
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Page 14 - SEC. 12. That upon the arrival of any alien by water at any port within the United States it shall be the duty of the master or commanding officer of the steamer, sailing or other vessel...
Page 12 - That the office of superintendent of immigration is hereby created and established, and the President, by and with the advice and consent; of the Senate, is authorized and directed to appoint such officer, whose salary shall be four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. The superintendent of immigration shall be an officer in the Treasury Department, under the control and supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury...
Page 12 - ... into the United States except by ordinary commercial letters, circulars, advertisements, or oral representations, stating the sailings of their vessels and the terms and facilities of transportation therein ; and for a violation of this provision any such steamship or transportation company, and any such owners of vessels, and the agents by them employed, shall be subjected to the penalties imposed by the third section of said act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for...
Page 9 - States, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such alien laborer, mechanic or artisan so brought as aforesaid, and may also be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months.
Page 8 - ... any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge...
Page 14 - ... and any such vessel shall not have clearance from any port of the United States while any such fine is unpaid.
Page 11 - That the following -classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the united States : All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars...
Page 3 - That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of fifty cents for each and every passenger not a citizen of the United States who shall come by steam or sail vessel from a foreign port to any port within the United States.
Page 14 - The cost of their maintenance while on land, as well as the expense of the return of such aliens, shall be borne by the owner or owners of the vessels on which they respectively came...
Page 7 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of two dollars for each and every passenger not a citizen of the United States, or of the Dominion of Canada, the Republic of Cuba, or of the Republic of Mexico, who shall come by steam, sail, or other vessel from any foreign port to any port within the United States...