Exceptions

hibitors at.

Fairs and ex- any foreign nation, of any concession or privilege from positions: any fair or exposition authorized by Act of Congress in favor of ex from bringing into the United States, under contract, such mechanics, artisans, agents, or other employees, natives of their respective foreign countries, as they or any of them may deem necessary for the purpose of making preparation for installing or conducting their exhibits or of preparing for installing or conducting any business authorized or permitted under or by virtue of or pertaining to any concession or privilege which may have been or may be granted by any said fair or exposition in connection with such exposition, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, both as to the admission and return of such person or persons.

Approved April 29, 1902 (32 Stat., part 1, p. 176).

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ACT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1905.

AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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Head tax:

when errone

Provided, That the Commissioner-General of ImmigraRefund of, tion, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and ously collected, Labor, shall have power to refund head tax heretofore and hereafter collected under section one of the immigration Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that such collection was erroneously made."

Approved February 3, 1905 (33 Stat., part 1, p. 631).

ACT OF FEBRUARY 6, 1905.

AN ACT to amend an Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," and to amend an Act approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," and to amend an Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An Act to establish a standard of value and to provide for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands," and to provide for the more efficient administration of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.

a See Rules 1 and 41.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

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lands:

therein;

immi

SEC. 6. That the immigration laws of the United States Philippine Isin force in the Philippine Islands shall be administered Enforce by the officers of the general government thereof desig- ment nated by appropriate legislation of said government, and gration laws all moneys collected under said laws as duty or head tax Collection on alien immigrants coming into said islands shall not be covered into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States, but shall be paid into the treasury of said islands to be used and expended for the government and benefit of said islands.

head tax there

ACT OF MARCH 3, 1905.

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *

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Provided, That the annual subscriptions for publica- Subscriptions: tions for use in the immigration service at large may be paid in advance.

Approved March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., part 1, p. 1156).

To be paid in advance.

ACT OF JUNE 29, 1906.

AN ACT to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States.

migration:

Title changed
Bureau

of

and Naturaliza

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representctives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the designation of the Bureau of Immigra- Bureau of Imtion in the Department of Commerce and Labor is hereby changed to the "Bureau of Immigration and Naturaliza to tion," which said Bureau, under the direction and control Immigration of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, in addition to tion. the duties now provided by law, shall have charge of all matters concerning the naturalization of aliens. That it shall be the duty of the said Bureau to provide, for use at the various immigration stations throughout the United States, books of record, wherein the commissioners of immigration shall cause a registry to be made in the case of each alien arriving in the United States from and after the passage of this Act of the name, age, occupation, personal description (including height, complexion, color of

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hair and eyes), the place of birth, the last residence, the intended place of residence in the United States, and the date of arrival of said alien, and, if entered through a port, the name of the vessel in which he comes. And it shall be the duty of said commissioners of immigration to cause to be granted to such alien a certificate of such registry, with the particulars thereof."

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Approved June 29, 1906 (34 Stat., part 1, p. 596).

Head tax:

Το paid;

By paid.

ACT OF FEBRUARY 20, 1907.

AN ACT to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United
States.

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 tax of four dollars for every alien entering the United whom States. The said tax shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port or customs district to which said alien shall come, or, if there be no collector at such port or whom district, then to the collector nearest thereto, by the

fines, and rent

tute

fund:

used.

master, agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel, transportation line, or other conveyance or vehicle bringing Head tax such alien to the United States. The money thus colals, to consti- lected, together with all fines and rentals collected under the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States, shall be paid into the Treasury of the Immigrant United States, and shall constitute a permanent appropriation to be called the "immigrant fund," to be used For what under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to defray the expense of regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States under said laws, including the contract labor laws, the cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digest thereof, for the use of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, and the salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said laws. The tax imTo be lien posed by this section shall be a lien upon the vessel, or other vehicle of carriage or transportation bringing such aliens to the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against the owner or owners of such vessel, or other vehicle, and the payment of such tax may Classes ex be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy. That the said tax shall not be levied upon aliens who shall enter

Head tax:

upon vessel;

How pay

ment enforced;

empted from payment of;

a For naturalization laws and regulations drawn thereunder, see pamphlet entitled "Naturalization Laws and Regulations." For specific exceptions, see Rule 2.

c For method of depositing fines and rentals, see Rule 3; for procedure in collecting fines and reporting suits for collection, see Rules 28, 29, and 30.

Head tax:

account aliens

more

than $2,500,

fund;

the United States after an uninterrupted residence of at least one year, immediately preceding such entrance, in the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Cuba, or the Republic of Mexico, nor upon otherwise admissible residents of any possession of the United States, nor upon aliens in transit through the United States, nor upon aliens who have been lawfully admitted to the United States and who later shall go in transit from one part of the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory: a Provided, That the Commis- Payment on sioner-General of Immigration, under the direction or from contiguwith the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and ous territory; Labor, by agreement with transportation lines, as provided in section thirty-two of this Act, may arrange in some other manner for the payment of the tax imposed by this section upon any or all aliens seeking admission from foreign contiguous territory: Provided further, No That if in any fiscal year the amount of money collected 000 to go into under the provisions of this section shall exceed two immigrant million five hundred thousand dollars, the excess above that amount shall not be added to the "immigrant fund:" Provided further, That the provisions of this section shall Exceptions— not apply to aliens arriving in Guam, Porto Rico, or Rico, and HaHawaii; but if any such alien, not having become a citi-waii. zen of the United States, shall later arrive at any port or place of the United States on the North American Continent the provisions of this section shall apply: Provided Passports: further, That whenever the President shall be satisfied If limited that passports issued by any foreign government to its detriment lacitizens to go to any country other than the United bor conditions, States or to any insular possession of the United States rejected. or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President may refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental territory of the United States from such other country or from such insular possessions or from the Canal Zone.d

Guam, Porto

and used to

holders to be

Excluded

classes:

sane, etc.;.

SEC. 2. That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane Idiots, Inpersons, 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

a See paragraph (f), Rule 2.

See Rules 2, 25, and 27.

c See Rule 2.

e

d For President's proclamation and regulations drawn thereunder, see Rule 21.

e For provisions for landing under bond persons likely to become public charges and persons certified for physical defects, see Rule 20.

Excluded beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a classes: loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; " persons not Mentally or comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded fective; classes who are found to be and are certified by the

Diseased;

physically de

Convicts;

Polygamists;

etc.;

Contract laborers;

b

a

examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy, Anarchists; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of Prostitutes, 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; persons who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women or girls for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons hereinafter called contract laborers, who have been induced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled; those who have been, within one year from the date of application for admission to the United States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described; 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 that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes, and that said ticket or passage was not paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government, either directly or indiChildren un- rectly; all children under sixteen years of age, unaccompanied by one or both of their parents, at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor or under such regulations as he may from time to time prescribe: ProExceptions- vided, That nothing in this Act shall exclude, if otherOffenses po- wise admissible, persons convicted of an offense purely political, not involving moral turpitude: Provided further, That the provisions of this section relating to the payments for tickets or passage by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government shall not apply to the tickets or passage of aliens in immediate

Assisted;

der 16;

litical;

Transits;

a For provision for placing in hospital, "with the express permission of the Secretary," persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, see Rule 10.

For provisions for landing under bond persons likely to become public charges and persons certified for physical defects, see Rule 20.

c For regulations, see Rule 5.