TREA SURY D EPA RTM ENT. IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. MARCH 11, 1893. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1893. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. IMMIGRATION LAWS AID REGULATIONS. 113 1893. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1893. Treasury Department, Document No. 1591, Secretary—Immigration. REGULATION OF IMMIGRATION. Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D. C., March 11,1893. Article 1. Collectors of customs will collect, as provided in section 1 of the act of August 3, 1882, a duty of 50 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 of the United States, ex- cept such vessels as are employed exclusively between the ports of the United States and the ports of the Dominion of Canada or of the ports of Mexico, as provided in section 22 of the act of June 26, 1884. Art. 2. All such moneys collected must be deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States on account of “ Immigrant fund” with an assistant treasurer of the United States, or national bank de- positary, in the same manner as other miscellaneous collections are re- ported. Separate accounts of the receipts and expenditures of money under the act must be rendered monthly to the Secretary of the Treas- ury, on forms to be furnished by the Government for the purpose. Art. 3. Collectors of customs on the Canadian frontier, and at all points where commissioners of immigration are not employed, are charged within their respective districts with the execution of the laws pertaining to immigration, and all importation of laborers under con- tract or agreement to perform labor in the United States. They will employ all customs, immigration, and other officers assigned to them for duty in the enforcement of the immigration acts; and all such offi- cers are hereby designated and authorized to act as immigration officers. Art. 4. Whenever it shall be necessary, in making the examination of immigrants, to temporarily remove them from the vessel upon which they arrived to a desirable place provided for the examination, such immigrants shall not be regarded as landed so long as they are under- going the examination, and are in charge of the officers whose duty it is to make such examination ; and such removal shall not be con- sidered a landing during the pendency of any question relating to such examination, or while awaiting their return as provided by law. Art. 5. The commissioner of immigration shall enter of record the name of every immigrant found upon examination to be within either of the prohibited classes, with a statement of the decision in each case, and 4 at the same time give notice in writing to the master, agent, consignee, or owner of the vessel upon which such immigrant arrived, together with the grounds of refusal to land such immigrant, that said vessel is required return such immigrant to the port whence he came. Art. 6. The regular examination of immigrants under the special inquiry required by statute will be separate from the public, but any immigrant who is refused permission to land, or pending an appeal in his case, will be permitted to confer with friends or counsel in such manner as the commissioner may deem proper. Art. 7. Any immigrant claiming to be aggrieved by the decision of the inspection officers may appeal therefrom, and such appeal shall stay his deportation until decision shall be had thereon. Such appeal shall be in writing, and shall specify the grounds of appeal, and shall be presented to the commissioner within twenty-four hours after notice of such decision, wTho shall at once forward such appeal to the Depart- ment with all the evidence in the case and his views thereon. Any examining inspector dissenting from a decision to admit an im- migrant may appeal therefrom, which appeal shall be in writing and specify the grounds thereof, and shall be forwarded by the commissioner to the Department in like manner as in cases of an appeal by an immi- grant. Art. 8. Upon a decision of the appeal the immigrant shall be at once landed or deported in accordance with such decision, and, in case landing is refused, the master, agent, consignee, or owner of the vessel by which the immigrant arrived shall be notified of such decision by the commissioner, and that the immigrant will be placed on board said vessel to be returned as aforesaid. Art. 9. The expenses for the keeping and maintenance of such im- migrants as are ordered to be returned pending the decision of their right to land and the subsequent expenses for the keeping and main, tenance of those ordered to be returned, and the expense of their return shall be borne by the owner or owners of the vessel on which they came. Art. 10. At least twenty-four hours before the sailing of the vessel upon which immigrants are ordered to be returned, the master, agent, consignee, or owner of such vessel shall notify the commissioner of the proposed hour of sailing, who shall thereupon place on board all im- migrants to be returned by such vessel as aforesaid, and in case any master, agent, consignee, or owner of such vessel shall refuse to receive such immigrants on board, or shall neglect to retain them thereon, or shall refuse or neglect to return them to the port from which they came, or to pay the cost of their maintenance while on land, such master, 5 agent, consignee, or owner shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $300 for each and every offense, and any such vessel shall not have clearance from any port of the United States while any such fine is unpaid. Art. 11. No vessel bringing immigrants in the steerage or in apart- ments other than in the first or second cabin, from ports where con- tagious or infectious diseases are prevailing, shall be admitted to entry unless it appear by the certificate of the consular officer at such port that said immigrants have been detained at the port of embarkation at least five days under medical observation in specially designated bar- racks or houses set apart for their exclusive use, and that their clothing, baggage, and personal effects have been disinfected before being placed on board by one of the following methods : (1) Boiling in water not less than thirty minutes. (2) Exposure to steam not less than thirty minutes, the steam to be of a temperature not less than 100° C. (212° F.), nor greater than 115° C. (239° F.), and unmixed with air. (3) Solution of carbolic acid of a 2 per cent strength. This method (No. 3) may be applied only to leather goods, such as trunks, satchels, boots, shoes ; to rubber goods, etc., the articles to be saturated with the solution. (4) Articles that would be destroyed or injured when subjected to any of the above methods may be disinfected by immersion in solution of bichloride of mercury, 1 part to 2,000, until all parts are thoroughly saturated, due precaution being taken against mercurial poisoning. The above restrictions will also be applied to vessels bringing immi- grants from noninfected ports, but who come from infected localities. Art. 12. There shall be delivered to the commissioner of immigra- tion at the port of arrival by the master or commanding officer of the vessel, lists or manifests, made at the time and place of embarkation, of such immigrants, which shall, in answer to questions at the top of said lists or manifests, state as to each of said passengers— (1) Full name. (2) Age. (3) Sex. (4) Whether married or single. (5) Calling or occupation. (6) Whether able to read or write. (7) Nationality. (8) Last residence. (9) Seaport for landing in the United States. 6 (10) Final destination in the United States. (11) Whether having a ticket through to such final destination. (12) Whether the immigrant has paid his own passage or whether it has been paid by other persons, or by any corporation, society, mu- nicipality, or government. (13) Whether in possession of money, and if so, whether upward of $30, and how much, if $30 or less. (14) Whether going to join a relative, and if so, what relative, and his name and address. (15) Whether ever before in the United States, and if so, when and where. (16) Whether ever in prison, or almshouse, or supported by charity. (17) Whether a polygamist. (18) Whether under contract, express or implied, to perform labor in the United States. (19) The immigrant’s condition of health, mentally and physically, and whether deformed or crippled; and, if so, from what cause. Art. 13. Such manifests or lists shall be accompanied by the fore- going interrogatories and answers thereto in the language of the im- migrant which shall be signed by him in the presence of the agent granting him transportation; and there shall be indorsed thereon, in the language of the immigrant, a notice that, if upon his arrival in the United States it is found that such interrogatories have not been correctly answered, he will be immediately returned ; also, that he will be required to make oath to the truth of such answers, if it be called for by the commissioner of immigration at the port of arrival in the United States, and that a false oath will subject him to fine or imprisonment. Art. 14. Said immigrants shall be listed in convenient groups, and no one list or manifest shall contain more than thirty names. There shall be delivered to each such immigrant or head of a family, prior to or at the time of embarkation, a ticket, on which shall be written his name, a number or letter, designating the list and his number on the list for convenience of identification on arrival. Each list or mani- fest shall be verified by the signature and the oath or affirmation of the master or commanding officer, or of the officer, first or second, be- low him in command, and of the surgeon of said vessel or other medi- cal officer, as provided in sections 2 and 3 of the act of March 3, 1893. Art. 15. In case of the failure of said master or commanding officer of said vessel to deliver to the said inspector of immigration lists or manifests, verified as aforesaid, containing the information above re- 7 quired as to all immigrants on board, there shall be paid to the collector of customs at the port of arrival the sum of $10 for each immigrant qualified to enter the United States concerning whom the above infor- mation is not contained in any list, as aforesaid, or said immigrant shall not be permitted so to enter the United States, but shall be re- turned like other excluded persons. Art. 16. The certificate required by section 8 to be filed by the Sec- retary of the Treasury shall be filed upon the first days of January and July of each year. Art. 17. These regulatious shall take immediate effect, except as to the last paragraph of article 7 and articles 11 to 16, inclusive, and as to those articles they will take effect on the 3d day of May, 1893. J. G. CARLISLE, Secretary. AN ACT to regulate immigration. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be levied, col- lected, 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. The said duty shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port to which such passenger shall come, or if there be no collector at such port, then to the collector of customs nearest thereto, by the master, owner, agent, or consignee of every such vessel, within twenty-four hours after the entry thereof into such port. The money thus collected shall be paid into the United States Treasury, and shall constitute a fund to be called the immigrant fund, and shall be used, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to defray the expense of regulating immigration under this act, and for the care of immigrants arriving in the United States, for the relief of such as are in distress, and for the general purposes and expenses of carrying this act into effect. The duty imposed by this section shall be a lien upon the vessels which shall bring such pas- sengers into the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against the owner or owners of such vessels; and the payment of such duty may be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy. Pro- vided, That no greater sum shall be expended for the purposes herein- before mentioned, at any port, than shall have been collected at such port. • ■ Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 'charged with the duty of executing the provisions of this act and with supervision over the business of immigration to the United States, and for that purpose he shall have power to enter into contracts with such State commission, board, or officers as may be designated for that purpose by the governor of any State to take charge of the local affairs of im- migration in the ports within said State, and to provide for the sup- port and relief of such immigrants therein landing as may fall into dis- tress or need public aid, under the rules and regulations to be pre- 8 scribed by said Secretary; and it shall be the duty of such State com- mission, board, or officers so designated to examine into the condition of passengers arriving at the ports within such State in any ship or vessel, and for that purpose all or any of such commissioners or officers or such other person or persons as they shall appoint, shall be author- ized to go on board of and through any such ship or vessel; and if on such examination there shall be found among such passengers any con- vict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or her- self without becoming a public charge, they shall report the same in writing to the collector of such port, and such person shall not be per- mitted to land. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish such reg- ulations and rules and issue from time to time such instructions not inconsistent with law as he shall deem best calculated to protect the United States and immigrants into the United States from fraud and loss, and for carrying out the provisions of this act and the immigra- tion laws of the United States; and he shall prescribe all forms of bonds, entries, and other papers to be used under and in the enforce- ment of the various provisions of this act. Sec. 4. That all foreign convicts except those convicted of political offences, upon arrival, shall be sent back to the nations to which they belong and from whence they came. The Secretary of the Treasury may designate the State board of charities of any State in which such board shall exist by law, or any commission in any State, or any per- son or persons in any State whose duty it shall be to execute the pro- visions of this section without compensation. The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations for the return of the aforesaid persons to the countries from whence they came, and shall furnish in- structions to the board, commission, or persons charged with the ex- ecution of the provisions of this section as to the mode of procedure in respect thereto, and may change such instructions from time to time. The expense of such return of the aforesaid persons not permitted to land shall be borne by the owners of the vessels in which they came. Sec. 5. That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved August 3, 1882. Original Act. AN ACT to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the transporta- tion, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien or aliens, auy foreigner or foreigners, into the United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia, under contract or agreement, parol or special, express or implied, made previous to the importation or migration of such alien or aliens, foreigner or foreigners, to perform labor or service of any kind in the United States, its Terri- tories, or the District of Columbia. 9 Sec. 2. That all contracts or agreements, express or implied, parol or special, which may hereafter be made by and between any person, company, partnership, or corporation, and any foreigner or foreigners, alien or aliens, to perform labor or service or having reference to the performance of labor or service by any person in the United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia, previous to the migration or importation of the person or persons whose labor or service is con- tracted for into the United States, shall be utterly void and of no effect. Sec. 3. That for every violation of any of the provisions of section one of this act the person, partnership, company, or corporation violating the same, by knowingly assisting, encouraging or soliciting the migra- tion or importation of any alien or aliens, foreigner or foreigners, into the United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia, to per- form labor or service of any kind under contract or agreement, express or implied, parol or special, with such alien or aliens, foreigner or for- eigners, previous to becoming residents or citizens of the United States, shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the sum of one thousand dol- lars, which may be sued for and recovered by the United States or by any person who shall first bring his action therefor, including any such alien or foreigner who may be a party to any such contract or agree- ment, as debts of like amount are now recovered in the circuit courts of the United States; the proceeds to be paid into the Treasury of the United States; and separate suits maybe brought for each alien or foreigner being a party to such contract or agreement aforesaid. ,Aud it shall be the duty of the district attorney of the proper district to prosecute every such suit at the expense of the United States. Sec. 4. That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the United States on any such vessel, and land, or permit to be landed, from any foreign port or place, any alien laborer, mechanic, or artisan who, previous to embarkation on such vessel, had entered into contract or agreement, parol or special, express or implied, to perform labor or service in the United States, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor. and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not f more than five hundred dollars for each and every such alieu laborer, mechanic or artisan so brought as aforesaid, and may also be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months. Sec. 5. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any citizen or subject of any foreign country temporarily residing in the United States, either in private or ofticial capacity, from engaging, under contract or otherwise, persons not residents or citizens of the United States to act as private secretaries, servants, or domestics for such foreigner temporarily residing in the United States as aforesaid; nor shall this act be so construed as to prevent any person, or persons, partnership, or corporation from engaging, under contract or agree- ment, skilled workmen in foreign countries to perform labor in the United States in or upon any new industry not at present established in the United States: Provided, That skilled labor for that purpose can not be otherwise obtained ; nor shall the provisions of this act apply to professional actors, artists, lecturers, or singers, nor to persons em- ployed strictly as personal or domestic servants : Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting any individual from assist- ing any member of his family or any relative or personal friend, to migrate from any foreign country to the United States, for the purpose of settlement here. 10 Sec. 6. That all laws or parts of laws conflicting herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, February 26, 1885 (23 Stat., 332). Amendatory Act. AN ACT to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, the Territories, and the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act to prohibit the im- portation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia, approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty five, and to provide for the enforcement thereof, be amended by adding the following: “ Sec. 6. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby charged with the duty of executing the provisions of this act, and for that purpose he shall have power to enter into contracts with such State commis- sion, board, or officers as may be designated for that purpose, by the governor of any State to take charge of the local affairs of immigration in the ports within said State, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by said Secretary; and it shall be the duty of such State commission, board, or officers so designated to examine into the condi- tion of passengers arriving at the ports within such State in any ship or vessel, and for that purpose all or any of such commissioners or officers, or such other person or persons as they shall appoint, shall be authorized to go on board of and through any such ship or vessel; and if in such examination there shall be found among such passengers any person included in the prohibition in this act, they shall report the same in writing to the collector of such port, and such person shall not be permitted to land. *‘Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish such regulations and rules, and issue from time to time such instructions, not inconsistent with law, as he shall deem best calculated for carrying out the provisions of this act; and he shall prescribe all forms of bonds, entries, and other papers to be used under and in the enforcement of the various provisions of this act. “Sec. 8. That all persons included in the prohibition in this act, upon arrival, shall be sent back to the nations to which they belong and from whence they came. The Secretary of the Treasury may des- ignate the State board of charities of any State in which such board shall exist by law, or any commission in any State, or any person or persons in any State, whose duty it shall be to execute the provisions of this section and shall be entitled to reasonable compensation there- for to be fixed by regulation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treas- ury. The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations for the return of the aforesaid persons to the countries from whence they came, and shall furnish instructions to the board, commission, or persons charged with the execution of the provisions of this section as to the time of procedure in respect thereto, and may change such instructions from time to time. The expense of such return of the aforesaid per- sons'not permitted to land shall be borne by the owners of the vessels in which they came. And any vessel refusing to pay such expenses 11 shall not thereafter be permitted to land at or clear from any port of the United States. And such expenses shall be a lien on said vessel. That the necessary expense in the execution of this act for the present fiscal year, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated. “Sec. 9. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. “Sec. 10. That this act shall take effect at the expiration of thirty days after its passage.” Approved, February 23, 1887 (24 Stat., 414). Amendment to the Alien Contract-La boh Law Contained in the Deficiency Bill, Approved October 19, 1885 (25 St at., 566). That the act approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to amend an act to prohibit the impor- tation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia,” be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in case that he shall be sat- isfied that an immigrant has been allowed to land contrary to the pro- hibition of that law, to cause such immigrant within the period of one year after landing or entry, to be taken into custody and returned to the country from whence he came, at the expense of the owner of the importing vessel; or, if he entered from an adjoining country, at the expense of the person previously contracting for the services. AN ACT in amendment to the various acts relative to immigration and the importa- tion of aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United JStates, in ac- cordance with the existing acts regulating immigration, other than those concerning Chinese laborers: All idiots, insane persons, paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, persons suffering from a loath- some or a dangerous contagious disease, persons who have been con- victed of a felony or other infamous crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, polygamists, and also 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, or to the class of contract laborers excluded by the act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty five, but this section shall not be held to exclude persons living in the United States from sending for a relative or a friend who is not of the excluded classes under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe : • Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to.or ex- clude persons convicted of a political offense, notwithstanding said po- litical offense may be designated as a “felony, crime, infamous crime, or misdemeanor, involving moral turpitude” by the laws of the land whence he came or by the court convicting. 12 Sec. 2. That no suit or proceeding for violations of said act of Feb- ruary twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, prohibiting the importation and migration of foreigners under contract or agreement to perform labor shall be settled, compromised, or discontinued without the consent of the court entered of record with reasons therefor. Sec. 3. That it shall be deemed a violation of said act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien by promise of employment through advertisements printed and published in any foreign country ; and any alien coming to this country in consequence of such an adver- tisement shall be treated as coming under a contract as contemplated by such act; and the penalties by said act imposed shall be applicable in such a case : Provided, This section shall not apply to States and immi- gration bureaus of States advertising the inducements they offer for immigration to such States. Sec. 4. That no steamship or transportation company or owners of vessels shall directly, or through agents, either by writing, printing, or oral representations, solicit, invite or encourage the immigration of any alien into the United States except by ordinary commercial letters, cir- culars, 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 em- ployed, shall be subjected to the penalties imposed by the third section of said act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty- five, for violations of the provisions of the first section of said act. Sec. 5. That section five of said act of February twenty-sixth, eight- een hundred and eighty-five, shall be, and hereby is, amended by add- ing to the second proviso in said section the words “nor to ministers of any religious denomination, nor persons belonging to any recognized profession, nor professors for colleges and seminaries,” and by exclud- ing from the second proviso of said section the words “or any relative or personal friend.” Sec. fi. That any person who shall bring into or land in the United States by vessel or otherwise, or who shall aid to bring into or land in the United States by vessel or otherwise, any alien not lawfully enti- tled to enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thou- sand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Sec. 7. 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 offi- cer, 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 Secre- tary of the Treasury, to whom he shall make annual reports in writing of the transactions of his office, together with such special reports, in writing, as the Secretary of the Treasury shall require. The Secretary shall provide the superintendent with a suitably furnished office in the city of Washington, and with such books of record and facilities for the discharge of the duties of his office as may be necessary. He shall have a chief clerk at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and two first-class clerks. 13 Sec. 8. That upon the arrival by water at any place within the United States of any alien immigrants it shall be the duty of the com- manding officer and the agents of the steam or sailing vessel by which they came to report the name, nationality, last residence, and destina- tion of every such alien, before any of them are landed, to the proper inspection officers, who shall thereupon go or send competent assistants on board such vessel and there inspect all such aliens, or the inspec- tion officers may order a temporary removal of such aliens for exam- ination at a designated time and place, and then and there detain them until a thorough inspection is made. But such a removal shall not be considered a landing during the pendency of such examination. The medical examination shall be made by surgeons of the Marine-Hospital Service. In cases where the services of a marine-hospital surgeon can not be obtained without causing unreasonable delay, the inspector may cause an alien to be examined by a civil surgeon and the Secretary of the Treasury shall fix the compensation for such examination. The inspection officers and their assistants shall have power to ad- minister oaths, and to take and consider testimony touching the right of any such aliens to enter the United States, all of which shall be entered of record. During such inspection after temporary re moval the superintendent shall cause such aliens to be properly housed, fed, and cared for, and also, in his discretion, such as are de- layed in proceeding to their destination after inspection. All decisions made by the inspection officers or their assistants touching the right of any alien to land, when adverse to such right, shall be final unless appeal be taken to the superintendent of immigration, whose action shall be subject to review by the Secretary of the Treasury. It shall be the duty of the aforesaid officers and agents of such vessel to adopt due precautions to prevent the landing of any alien immigrant at any place or time other than that designated by the inspection officers, and any such officer or agent or person in charge of such vessel who shall either knowingly or negligently land or permit to land any alien immi- grant at any place or time other than that designated by the inspection officers, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. That the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe rules for inspection along the borders of Canada, British Columbia, and Mexico so as not to obstruct or unnecessarily delay, impede, or annoy passengers inordi- nary travel between said countries: Provided, That not exceeding one inspector shall be appointed for each customs district, and whose salary shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars per year. All duties imposed and powers conferred by the second section of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, upon State commissions, boards, or officers acting under contract with the Secre- tary of the Treasury shall be performed and exercised, as occasion may arise, by the inspection officers of the United States. Sec. 9. That for the preservation of the peace and in order that arrests may be made for crimes under the laws of the States where the various United States immigrant stations are located, the officials in charge of such stations as occasion may require shall admit therein the proper State and municipal officers charged with the enforcement of such laws, and for the purposes of this section the jurisdiction of such officers and of the local courts shall extend over such stations. 14 Sec. 10. That all aliens who may unlawfully come into the United States shall, if practicable, be immediately sent back on the vessel by which they were brought in. 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 vessel on which such aliens came ; and if any master, agent, consignee, or owner of such vessel shall refuse to receive back on board the vessel such aliens, or shall neglect to detain them thereon, or shall refuse or neglect to return them to the port from which they came, or to pay the cost of their maintenance while on land, such master, agent, consignee, or owner shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not less than three hundred dollars for each and every offense; and any such vessel shall not have clearance from any port of the United States while any such fine is unpaid. Sec. 11. That any alien who shall come into the United States in violation of law may be returned as by law provided, at any time within one year thereafter, at the expense of the person or persons, vessel, transportation company, or corporation bringing such alien into the United States, and if that can not be done, then at the expense of the United States; and any alien who becomes a public charge within one year after his arrival in the United States from causes existing prior to liis landing therein shall be deemed to have come in violation of law and shall be returned as aforesaid. Sec. 12. That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to affect any prosecution or other proceeding, criminal or civil, begun under any existing act or any acts hereby amended, but such prosecu- tion or other proceedings, criminal or civil, shall proceed as if this act had not been passed. Sec. 13. That the circuit and district courts of the United States are hereby invested with full and concurrent jurisdiction of all causes, civil and criminal, arising under any of the provisions of this act; and this act shall go into effect on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Approved, March 3, 1891. AN ACT to facilitate the enforcement, of the immigration and contract-labor laws of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in addition to conforming to all present requirements of law, upon the arrival of any alien immi- grants by water at any port within the United States, it shall be the duty of the master or commanding officer of the steamer or sailing vessel having said immigrants on board to deliver to the proper in- spector of immigration at the port lists or manifests made at the time and place of embarkation of such alien immigrants on board such steamer or vessel, which shall, in answer to questions at the top of said lists, state as to each immigrant the full name, age, and sex, whether married or single; the calling or occupation ; whether able to read or write; the nationality; the last residence; the seaport for landing in the United States; the final destination, if any, beyond the seaport of landing; whether having a ticket through to such final destination; whether the immigrant has paid his own passage or- whether it lias been paid by other persons or by any corporation, society, municipality, or government; whether in possession of money, and if so, whether up- 15 wards of thirty dollars and liow much if thirty dollars or less ; whether going to join a relative, and if so, what relative and his name and ad- dress; whether ever before in the United States, and if so, when and where; whether ever in prison or almshouse or supported by charity ; whether a polygamist; whether under contract, express or implied, to perform labor in the United States ; and what is the immigrant’s con- dition of health mentally and physically, and whether deformed or crippled, and if so, from what cause. Sec. 2. That the immigrants shall be listed in convenient groups and no one list or manifest shall contain more than thirty names. To each immigrant or head of a family shall be given a ticket on which shall be written his name, a number or letter designating the list, and his number on the list, for convenience of identification on arrival. Each list or manifest shall be verified by the signature and the oath or affirmation of the master or commanding officer or of the officer first or second below him in command, taken before the United States con- sul or consular agent at the port of departure, before the sailing of said vessel, to the effect that he has made a personal examination of each and all of the passengers named therein, and that he has caused the surgeon of said vessel sailing therewith to make a physical exam- ination of each of said passengers, and that from his personal inspec- tion and the report of said surgeon he believes that no one of said passengers is an idiot or insane person, or a pauper or likely to become a public charge, or suffering from a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, or a person who has been convicted of a felony or other infa- mous crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, or a polygam- ist, or under a contract or agreement, express or implied, to perform labor in the United States, and that also, according to the best of his knowledge and belief, the information in said list or manifest concern- ing each of said passengers named therein is correct and true. Sec. 3. That the surgeon of said vessel sailing therewith shall also sign each of said lists or manifests before the departure of said vessel, and make oath or affirmation in like manner before said consul or con- sular agent, stating his professional experience and qualifications as a physician and surgeon, and that he has made a personal examination of each of the passengers named therein and that said list or manifest, according to the best of his knowledge and belief, is full, correct, and true in all particulars relative to the mental and physical condition of said passengers. If no surgeon sails with any vessel bringing alien immigrants, the mental and physical examinations and the verifications of the lists or manifests may be made by some competent surgeon em- ployed by the owners of the vessel. Sec. 4. That in the case of the failure of said master or commanding officer of said vessel to deliver to the said inspector of immigration lists or manifests, verified as aforesaid, containing the information above required as to all alien immigrants on board, there shall be paid to the collector of customs at the port of arrival the sum of ten dollars for each immigrant qualified to enter the United States concerning whom the above information is not contained in any list as aforesaid, or said immigrant shall not be permitted so to enter the United States, but shall be returned like other excluded persons. Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of every inspector of arriving alien immigrants to detain for a special inquiry, under section one of the immigration act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, every person who may not appear to him to be clearly and beyond 16 doubt entitled to admission, and all special inquiries shall be conducted by not less than four officials acting as inspectors, to be designated in writing by the Secretary of the Treasury or the superintendent of im- migration, for conducting special inquiries; and no immigrant shall be admitted upon special inquiry except after a favorable decision made by at least three of said inspectors; and any decision to admit shall be subject to appeal by any dissenting inspector to the superin- tendent of immigration, whose action shall be subject to review by the Secretary of the Treasury, as provided in section eight of said immi- gration act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Sec. 6. That section five of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety one, “in amendment of the various acts relative to immigra- tion and the importation of aliens under contract or agreement to per- form labor,” is hereby amended by striking out the words “second proviso” where they first occur in said section and inserting the words “first proviso” in their place ; and section eight of said act is hereby so amended that the medical examinations of arriving immigrants to be made by surgeons of the Marine-Hospital Service may be made by any regular medical officers of such Marine-Hospital Service detailed therefor by the Secretary of the Treasury ; and civil surgeons shall only be employed temporarily from time to time for specific emergencies. Sec. 7. That no bond or guaranty, written or oral, that an alien im- migrant shall not become a public charge shall be received from any person, company, corporation, charitable or benevolent society or asso- ciation, unless authority to receive the same shall in each special case be given by the Superintendent of Immigration, with the written ap- proval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 8. That all steamship or transportation companies, and other owners of vessels, regularly engaged in transporting alien immigrants to the United States, shall twice a year file a certificate with the Sec- retary of the Treasury that they have furnished to be kept conspic- uously exposed to view in the office of each of their agents in foreign countries authorized to sell emigrant tickets, a copy of the Jaw of March third, eighteeu hundred and ninety-one, and of all subsequent laws of this country relative to immigration, printed in large letters, in the language of the country where the copy of the law is to be ex- posed to view, and that they have instructed their agents to call the attention thereto of persons contemplating emigration before selling tickets to them ; and in case of the failure for sixty days of any such company or any such owners to file such a certificate, or in case they file a false certificate, they shall pay a fine of not exceeding five hun- dred dollars. to be recovered in the proper United States court, and said fine shall also be a lien upon any vessel of said company or owners found within the United States. Sec. 9. That after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, all exclusive privileges of exchanging money, transport- ing passengers or baggage, or keeping eating houses, and all other like privileges in connection with the Ellis Island immigrant station, shall be disposed of after public competition, subject to such conditions and limitations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Sec. 10. That this act shall not apply to Chinese persons; and shall take effect as to vessels departing from foreign ports for ports within the United States after sixty days from the passage of this act. Approved, March 3, 1893.