The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-21
LOOK. PLEASANT" JOHN,
Your Photograph viii Go Along
With Your Certificate If You
Stay Here.
How the Regulations Of the New
Chinese Exclusion ACT VIII
Be Carried Out.
Before Another Year All Cinnamon Who
DO Not Comply May Eo In
Trouble.

John Chinaman and his tour hundred or
more brothers will soon pose before the
camera under tho direction OF Capt. james
II. Mills, collector of internal revenue Tor
the district Of Montana. 1t must not be
inferred that the genial captain has taken
up photography as a pastime or that our
Chinese n%eighbors are having their pictures
taken for the fun of the thing. 1t 10 simply
a case Of necessity. If they are to remain
in thia country they must obey the laws
and the photograph regulation 10 part OF
statutes of the Chinese exclusion act OF
May &. 1892. The captain has received no
official notice as to how the proceedings are
to be carried ont. neither has he received
the official registration blanks. Other
offices, however. have received the informs
ton from Washington and this office will
probably be definitely informed within a
few days. There are 1876 chief internal
revenue officers in the country and 1t takes
time to make the rounds from h%eadQuar-
tors. The Chinese understand the regula-
tion, for Billy Kay, the we'll known leader,
went to the captains Office the other day
and asked when he would have all the
Cinnamon tagged. The general pro-
visions of the law are we'll understood.
Section six provides that it shall be the duty
of all Chinese laborers within the limits OF
the United States at the time of the passage
of the act, and entitled to remain in tho
United States, TO apply to the collector Of
internal revenue within the respective dis
tricts for a certificate of residence. All who
neglect or refuse to comply with this act, or
who, after one year, shall be found without
this certificate. may be arrested and taken
before a United States judge, whose duty it
shall be to order that ne be deported from
the United States. as Lefore provided, I'M
less he can establish that by reason Of sick
ness or accident or other unavoidable cause
he WAS unable to procure the certificate,
and to the satisfaction Of the court and by
at least one credible white witness that he
was a resident of the United States at the
time of the passage of the act. If it ap-
pears that the certificate has been lost or
destroyed, the Chinaman shall be detained
and Judgment suspended a reasonable time
to enable him to procure a duplicate.
There is also a provislon requiring the
neme, age, description, etc., on the certifl-
cate. The penalty for altering the name or
the forging OF snch certificate or fs g. ely
~impersonating any person named is $1,000
fine or imprisonment for not more than five
years. Upon the certificate must appear
besides the description. etc, a photograph
OF the owner. The collector also retains
an affidavit from a witness that the likeness
is a good one and that the subject has been
in this country for the reqnirea time. Ihe
collector also keeps a copy of the certificate
and a photograph for future reference. The
law provides that no Chinaman shall be
compelled Ia pay for the certificate. Capt.
Mills is now wondering who will pay for
the photographs which are not mentioned
in the statute bat are made part of the reg
ulation under it. If the expense is to be
taken from the fees Capt. Mills thinks
there will be nothing in it for him unless
the photographs can be secured on the job
lot system.