Immigration : $b A world movement and its American significanceFairchild, Henry Pratt
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Immigration : $b A world movement and its American significance
Fairchild, Henry Pratt
Emigration and immigration; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Act of March 3, 1891. SECTION 1. The following additions are made to the
excluded classes: paupers or persons likely to become a public charge,
persons suffering from a loathsome or a contagious disease, polygamists,
and 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 specifically
proved that he does not belong to one of the excluded classes, including
contract laborers.
SECTION 3. Assisting or encouraging immigration by promise of employment
through advertising in a foreign country is declared illegal, with the
exception of the advertisements of state agencies.
SECTION 4. Encouragement or solicitation of immigration by steamship or
transportation companies, except by means of regular advertisements
giving an account of sailings, facilities, and terms is declared
illegal.
SECTION 5. The following are added to the excepted classes under the
contract labor law: ministers of any religious denomination, persons
belonging to any recognized profession, professors of colleges and
seminaries. Relatives and friends of persons in this country are not
hereafter to be excepted.
SECTION 6. Persons bringing in aliens not legally entitled to enter are
made liable to a fine of not more than $1000, or imprisonment for not
more than one year, or both.
SECTION 7. The office of Superintendent of Immigration is created, to be
under the Secretary of the Treasury.
SECTION 8. Shipmasters shall file with the proper officers a manifest,
giving the name, nationality, last residence, and destination of each
alien passenger. Inspection is to be made by inspection officers before
landing, or a temporary landing may be made at a specified place. The
medical examination is to be made by surgeons of the Marine Hospital
Service. During the temporary landing, aliens are to be properly fed and
cared for. Right of appeal granted. Landing, or allowing to land, alien
passengers at any other time or place than that specified by the
inspectors is made an offense punishable by a (maximum) fine of $1000,
or imprisonment for one year, or both. The Secretary of the Treasury is
empowered to prescribe rules for the inspection of immigrants along the
borders of Canada, British Columbia, and Mexico. The duties and powers
previously vested in the state boards are now to go to the regular
inspection officers of the United States.
SECTION 10. All aliens who unlawfully come to the United States are to
be immediately sent back on the vessel in which they came, all expenses
in the meantime to be borne by the shipowner.
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