St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-14
SOME new BARRIERS
Designed to Prevent Cholera
From Landing on Our
Shores.
Additional Regulations Pro-
mulgated by Secretary
Carlisle.
They Are Made to Conform to
the Law OF the Last
Session.
A Kentuckian With a Poor
Memory Visits the White
House.

WASHINGTON. March 13.-Secretary
Carlisle today issued the new regula-
tons regarding the precautions to be
observed in admitting immigrants to
the United States. The regulations
contain seventeen articles, the first ten
of which are substantially the same as
the regulations now in force. Articles
IL to Is are practically new, made to
conform to the new laws affecting i'm
migration passed by the last congress
and approved on the Sd of March last.
Their most important points are as fol-
lows:
Article II enacts that no vessel bring
ing immigrants from ports where con-
'tagious or infectious diseases are pre-
yailing shall be admitted to entry Hfi-
less it appears by the certificate of the
consular officer at such port that said
immigrants have been detained at the
port of embarkation at least five days
under medical observation in especially
designated barracks or houses set apart
for their exclusive use, and that their
clothing, baggage and personal effects
have been diSinfected before being
placed on board.
The Above Restrictions
will also be applied to vessels bringing
immigrants from non-infected ports,
but who come from infected localities.
Article IL requires that there shall be
delivered TO the commissioner of immi-
grafton at the port of arrival lists OF
such immigrants, which shall state as to
Of CoiA substantially
what is now required by existing law
and these additional requirements:
Whether the immigrant has paid his
own passage or whether it has been
paid by other persons, or by any corpo-
ration, society, municipality or govern
ment: whether ever in prison or aims
house, or supported by charity; whether
a pOlygamist; whether under contract,
express or implied, to perform labor i'll
the United States.
Article Is provides that such lists
shall be accompanied by the foregoing
HETEROGENEOUS and answers thereto i'll
the language of the immigrant, which
shall be signed by him in the presence
of the agent granting him transporta-
ton: and there shall be Endorsed
thereon, in the language Of the imml-
grant, notice that. If
Upon His Arrival
In the United States it is found that
such HETEROGENEOUS have not~been cor
rectly answered, he will be Immediately
returned: also that he will be required
to make oath to the truth of such an
swers. if it be called for by the commits
sioner of immigration at the port of
arrival in the United States, and that a
false oath will subject him to fine or
Imprisonment.
Article IA provides that the lmmi-
grants shall be listed in convenient
groups, and no one list or manifest shall
| contain more than thirty names.
Article ID provides that in case of the
| failure of the commanding officer of the
vessel to deliver to the inspector of i'm
migration lists or manifests, verified as
aforesaid, containing the information
| above required as to all immigrants on
| board, there shall be paid to the collect
or of customs of the port of arrival the
sum of SO Tor each immigrant qualified
| to enter the United States, concerning
whom the above information is not con.
tanned in any list, as aforesaid, or said
| immigrant shall not be permitted SO to
enter the United States, but shall be re-
| turned like other excluded persons.