Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-04

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troduced a few days since by Senator
Palmer, in the United States Senate hay
ing in view the restriction of undesirable
foreign Immigration
Be ii 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 duty Of
dollars for each and every passenger not
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 pas
senger shall come, or if there be no such
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 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 pur-
poses and expenses of carrying this Act
into effect The duty imposed by this sec
ton shall be a lien upon the vessels which
shall bring such passengers into the United
States, aud shall be 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
I equitable remedy.
Section 9 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 I'M
mi gration to the United States, and for that
purpose he shall have power to enter into
| contracts with such State, commission
board or officer as may be designated for
| that purpose by the Governor of any State
to take charge of the local affairs of immi-
grafton in the ports within the State, and
to provide for the support and relief of
| such immigrants therein landing as may
fall into distress or need public aid, 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-
ton 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 ii on such examination there
shall be found among such passengers any
adult person not a citizen of the United
States, and not provided with certificate
from the United States Consul for the dis
trict of his residence and from which he
proposes TO emigrate, setting forth, sub
stanually, that the said Consul is satisfied
upon diligent inquiry that he is a suitable
and desirable person for residence and citi-
| yarSbip in 10 TIpi.a6 States tbaxr bal ro
port the same in writing to the Collector OF
such port, and such persons sh all not be
permitted TO land.
Section 3. 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 to protect the
United States and immigrants into the
| United States from fraud and loss and for
the carrying out of the provisions of this
Act and the immigration laws of the
United States; 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, except
ing such rules, regulations, forms and in
structions to United States Consuls as are
hereinafter provided to be prescribed and
issued by the Secretary of State.
Section 4. That the Secretary Ct State
shall establish such rules and regulations
and issue from time to time such instruc-
ton to Consuls of the United States, not
inconsistent with law or with treaty obliga-
tons, as shall enable well-disposed and
worthy persons who desire to become resi-
dents or citizens of the United States to OBJ
tain certificates of character and fitness
therefor from the Consul of the district in
which they reside, without hardship or I'M
reasonable delay, which ceri ificate shall
contain, in addition to other specifications
required by this Act, or which may be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of State the full
name of the individual receiving the same.
the place of birth, age, occr ration. last
legal residence, physical mark, OF peculiar
tiles, and all facts necessary for the identi-
fication of such individual; but no certifi-
cate shall be granted to any convict, except
those convicted of political offenses, nor to
any lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to
take care of himself or herself without be-
coming public charge, nor to any Anarch-
list, Nihilist, or any person hostile to the
principles of the Constitution or form of
Government of the United States nor to
| any believer or profesSed believer in the
| Mormon religion who fails to satisfy the
| Consul, upon examination, that he or she
intends to and will conform to and obey
| the laws of the United States, nor to any
person included in the prohibition in the
Act to prohibit the importation and immi-
| grafton of foreigners and aliens under con-
! tract or agreement to perform labor in the
| United States the Territories and the Dis
| trict of Columbia, approved February 26,
1885, or in Acts amendatory to said Acts
Section 5. That 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, whose duty it shall be to execute
the provisions of this section without COM
pensation. That the Secretary of the
Treasury shall prescribe regulations for the
return of persons not permitted to land to
the country whence they came, and shall
furnish instructions to the board, commits
sion or person charged with the execution
| of the provisions of this section as to the
modesof 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.
Section o. That the master of any vessel
who shall knowingly bring within the
| United States on such vessel, and land or
attempt to land, or permit to be landed
from any foreign port or place, any adult
person not citizen of the United States
who has not been granted the Consular GER
tlHc3te described IN IDS ACT, Shall be
| deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on
| conviction thereof snail be punished by a
| fine of not more than $500 for each and
every such person so brought and may also
be imprisoned TOR a term not exceeding one
year.
Section Z. That any person who shall
knowingly and falsely alter or substitute
| any name for the name written in such GER
| titicate or forge any such certificate, shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor; and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined in
sum not exceeding $1,000, and imprisoned
in Il peniteniiary for term of not more
! than five years.
| Section 5. That no person not citizen of
the United States shall be permitted to en-
ter the United States by land without pro-
ducing to the proper officer of customs the
| certificate in this Act required of persons
not citizens of the United States seeking to
| land from vessel. Any person found IN
lawfully within the United States shall be