San Andreas independent., 1858-05-08
AN ACT.
To prevent the further immigration of Chinese or Mon
goliaus to this State.

To prevent the further immigration of Chinese or Mon
goliaus to this State
The People Of the State Of California, represented
an Senate and assembly, do enact as folloacs :
SECTION l. On and after the first day of Oc-
tober, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and
htty-elght any person or persons of the Chi
nese or Mongolian races shall not be permit
ted to enter this State, or land therein, at any
port or part thereof; and it shall be unlawful
for any man or person, whether captain or COM
mander, or other person in charge of or inter-
ested in, or employed on board of or passen-
ger upon any vessel or vessels, of any nature
or description whatsoever, to knowingly allow
or permit any Chinese or Mongolian, on and
after such time, to enter any of the ports of
this State, to land therein, or at any place or
places within the borders of this State; and
any person or persons violating any of the pro-
visions of this Act, shall be held and deemed
guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to fine in any sum
not less than four hundred dollars nor more
than six hundred dollars, for each and every
offence, or Imprisonment in the county jail of
the county in which the said offence was COM
mitted, for a period of not less than three
months nor more than one year, or by both
such fine and Imprisonment.
Sec. 2. The landing Of each and every Chi
nese or Mongollan person or persons, shall be
deemed and held as a distinct and separate
offence, and punished accordingly.
SEC 3. Any captain or commander, or any
person owning an interest in, or being employed
upon any vessel or vessels having on board
any Chinese or Mongolians, which may be by
storm or distress, or other unavoidable acci-
dent driven ashore upon any of the coasts of
this State, or within any of the ports of this
State, and from which any Of said Chinese or
Mongolians may be landed within this State,
shall not be held liable under the provisions
of this Act; prorided, hoWerer, the fact of it
being an unavoidable necessity or accident be
fully shown, to the satisfaction of the Court or
Judge having the hearing of said case before
him; and Procided further, that said person or
persons, having charge of or being employed
upon or being interested in any vessel or ves-
sells thus driven ashore upon any of the coasts
of this State, and from which any Chinese or
Mongolians shall be landed, shall Immediately
thereafter use all due diligence in their power
to cause each and all of said Chinese or Mon
golians to be Immediately re-shipped, or in
other ways conveyed from within the borders
of this State, which fact shall also be made to
appear to the satisfaction of the Court, or the
Judge having the hearing of the same.
SEC. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the Secretary
OF State, as soon as practicable after the pas
sage ofthis Act, to cause the same to be trans
lated into the Chinese language, and shall
cause one thousand copies of the same to be
published in said language, for distribution
among the Chinese residents in this State and
tie sum of five hundred dollars is hereby set
apart, out of any funds in the Treasury, not
otherwise appropriated, to defray the cost of
said translation, publication and distribution
and 1t shall also be the duty of the Secretary
OF State to furnish a translated copy of this
Act to each of the Commercial Agents of the
United States IN the ports of China.
Approved April 26th, 1853