ment of Commerce and Labor," and the act approved March 4, 1913, entitled "An act to establish a Department of Labor," the authority, power, and jurisdiction in relation to the exclusion of Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent vested by law in collectors of customs are conferred upon and vested in officers in charge of districts (or inspectors acting under their direction) as follows,1 such officers being under the control of the Commissioner General of Immigration, and, pursuant to the said authority, the Chinese and immigrant inspectors in the United States Immigration Service are hereby designated to exercise the powers of arrest conferred upon United States customs officials and collectors of internal revenue and their deputies, by section 6 of the act approved May 5, 1892 (27 Stat., p. 25), as amended by section 1 of the act approved November 3, 1893 (28 Stat. L., 7). 1 For list of offices, see p. 171. LIST OF DISTRIBUTION BRANCHES, DIVISION OF INFORMATION, BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION, SHOWING HEADQUARTERS, TERRITORY, AND SUBBRANCHES. 2 Providence, R. I. Pittsburgh, Pa. New York City, U. S. Barge New York, New Jersey, New 3 Philadelphia, Pa., 135 South Sec- 4 Baltimore, Md., Stewart Build- | ing. necticut. Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, North Carolina..... 228 APPENDIX D. ACT ESTABLISHING THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU. [Act of Apr. 9, 1912, as amended by act of Mar. 4, 1913.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be established in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Children's Bureau. SEC. 2. That the said bureau shall be under the direction of a chief, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive an annual compensation of five thousand dollars. The said bureau shall investigate and report to said Department upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children employment, legislation affecting children in the several States and Territories. But no official, or agent, or representative of said bureau shall, over the objection of the head of the family, enter any house used exclusively as a family residence. The chief of said bureau may from time to time publish the results of these investigations in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor. SEC. 3. That there shall be in said bureau, until otherwise provided for by law, an assistant chief, to be appointed by the Secretary of Labor, who shall receive an annual compensation of two thousand four hundred dollars; one private secretary to the chief of the bureau, who shall receive an annual compensation of one thousand five hundred dollars; one statistical expert, at two thouand dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one special agent, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one special agent, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one messenger at eight hundred and forty dollars. SEC. 4. That the Secretary of Labor is hereby directed to furnish. sufficient quarters for the work of this bureau at an annual rental not to exceed two thousand dollars. SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPENDIX E. NATURALIZATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. NATURALIZATION LAWS. Act of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat. L., Part 1, p. 596), as amended in sections 16, 17, and 19 by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., Part 1, p. 1102); in section 13 by the act of Congress approved June 25, 19102 (36 Stat. L., l'art 1, p. 830); and by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. L., Part 1, p. 736), creating the Department of Labor. An Act To provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States, and establishing the Bureau of Naturalization. [Portion of act creating the Department of Labor.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby created an executive department in the Government to be called the Department of Labor, with a Secretary of Labor, who shall be the head thereof, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; * * * * * * SEC. 3. That the following-named offices, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service now and heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and all that pertains to the same, known as * * * the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, * * the Division of Naturalization, * * be, and the same hereby are, transferred from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision of the last-named department. The Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization is hereby divided into two bureaus, to be known hereafter as the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization, and the titles Chief Division of Naturalization and Assistant Chief shall be Commissioner of Naturalization and Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization. The Commissioner of Naturalization or, in his absence, the Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization, shall be the administrative officer in charge of the Bureau of Naturalization and of the administration of the naturalization laws under the immediate direction of the Secretary of Labor, to whom he shall report directly upon all naturalization matters annually and as otherwise required, * * * [Act of June 29, 1906, as amended by the acts above referred to.] That the Bureau of Naturalization, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Labor, shall have charge of all matters concerning the naturalization of aliens. That it shall be the duty of the 1 See pp. 250-252. 2 See p. 233. * See p. 233. |