Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-05-18

lector of customs of the district next adj
joining the foreign country to which said
Chinese laborer desires to 60 to issue
such certificate free of charge or cost
upon application of such Chinese labor
err and to enter the same upon registry
books to be kept by him for the purpose,
as provided for in section of this act.
SEC. 6. That in order to the faithful
execution of articles and 2 of the
treaty in this act before mentioned,
every Chinese person other than a labor
er who may be entitled by said treaty
and this act to come within the United
State, and who shall be about to come
to the United States, shall be identified
as SO entitled by the Chinese Govern
ment in such case, such identity to be
evidenced by certificate issued under
the authority of said Government, which
certificate shall be in the English Ian
guage or accompanied by translation
into English, stating such right to come,
and which certificate shall state the
name, title, or official rank, if any, the
age, height, and all physical peculiari-
ties, former and present occupation or
profession, and place of residence in
China of the person to whom the certifi-
cate is issued, and that such person is
entitled conformably to the treaty in this
act mentioned to comew within the United
States. Such certificate shall be prima
facie evidence of the facts set forth
therein, and shall be produced to the
Collector of Customs, or his deputy, of
the port in the district in the United
States at which the person therein
named shall arrive.
SEC. T. That any person who shall
knowingly and falsely alter or substitute
any name for the name written in such
certificate, or knowingly utter any
forged or fraudulent certificate, or false
ly personate any person named in such
certificate, shall be guilty of misde-
mcanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined in a sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in
a penitentiary for n term OF not more
than five years.
Sec 8. That the master of any vessel
arriving in the United States from any
foreign port or place shall, at the same
time he delivers manifest of the cargo,
and if there be no cargo then at the
time OF making a report of the entry of
the vessel pursuant to law, in addition
to the other matter required to be re-
ported, and before landing, or permit
ing to land any Chinese passengers, de-
liver and report to the Collector of Gus
toms of the district to which such ves-
sci shall have arrived separate list of
all Chinese passengers taken on board
his vessel at any foreign port or place,
and all such passengers on board the
vessel at that time. Such list shall show
the names Of such passengers land if
accredited officers of the Chinese Gov
ernment travelling ON the business of
that government, or their servants, with
a note of such facts) and the names and
the names and other particulars, as
shown by their respective certificates;
and such list shall be sworn to by the
master in the manner required by law
in relation to the manifest of the cargo.
Any willful refusal or neglect of any
such master to comply with the provis-
ions of this section shall incur the pen
alties and forfeiture as are provided for
a refusal or neglect to report and deliver
a manifest of the cargo.
Sec. 8. That before any Chinese pas
sengers are landed from any such vessel,
the Collector, or his deputy, shall pro-
ceed to examine such passengers, COM
pairing the certificates with the list and
with the passengers; and no passenger
shall be allowed to land in the United
States from such vessel in violation of
law.
SEC. 10. That every vessel whose mas
ter shall knowingly violate any of the
provisions of this act shall be deemed
forfeited to the United States, and shall
be liable to seizure and condemnation in
any district of the United States into
which such vessel may enter or in which
she may be found.
SEC. IL. That any person who shall
knowingly bring into, or cause to be
brought into, by land, or who shall
knowingly aid or abet the same, or aid
or abet the landing in the United States
from any vessel, OF Chinese persons not
lawfully entitled to enter the United
States, shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined in sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars and imprisoned for
a term not exceeding one year.
See. II. That no Chinese person shall
be permitted to enter the United States
by land without producing to the proper
officer of customs the certificate in this
act required of Chinese persons seeking
to land from a vessel. And any Chinese
person found unlawfully within the
United States, shall be caused to be re-
moved therefrom to the country from
whence he came by direction of the
President of the United States, and at
the cost of the United States, after being
brought before some justice, Judge, or
commissioner of a court of the United
States and found to be one not lawfully
entitled to be or remain in the United
States.
SEC. l3. That this act shall not apply
to diplomatic and other officers in the
Chinese government travelling upon the
business of that government, whose Gre
dentials shall be taken as equivalent to
the certificate in this act mentioned, and
shall exempt them and their body and
household servants from the provisions
of this act as to other Chinese persons.
Sec. Ia. That hereafter no State Court
of the United States shall admit Chinese
to citizenship; and all laws in conflict
with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. l5. That the words Chinese Ia
borers, wherever used in this act, shall
be construed to mean both skilled and
unskilled laborers and Chinese employed