Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-10-18
Current News.
Further Orders.

toms modifying the instructions con-
tanned in the Treasury Department
circular dated August |, 1891, and
issued to Collectors of Customs at
ports where Chinese first arrive in
the United States. These instruct
tion required Collectors to cancel
certificates and retain the same on
their files. BY the notifications
ordered by the Assistant Secretary,
Collectors are instructed to deliver
such certificates to persons present
ing the same after indorsing on the
face thereof in red ink the name of
the passenger, name of the vessel,
date of arrival and the signature of
the Collector, and to cancel them by
punching or otherwise in such man
ner as to preclude their further use.
The full text of the new Chinese
measure introduced in Congress is as
follows:
Section |. That section of the act
entitled IAN act to prohibit the com
ing of Chinese persons, into the
United States" approved May 8,
1892, is hereby amended so as to read
as follows: "Section 6. And it shall
be the duty of all Chinese laborers
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entitled to remain in theUnited States
before the passage of the act to
which this act is an amendment to
apply to the Collector of Internal
Revenue of their respective districts
within six months after the passage
of this act for certificate of resi-
dence, and any Chinese laborer with
in the limits of the United States who
shall fail, neglect or refuse to COM
ply with the provisions of this act
and the act to which this is an
amendment, or who after the expira-
tion of said six months shall be found
within the jurisdiction of the United
States without such certificate Of
residence, shall be deemed and ad-
judged to be unlawfully within the
United States and may be arrested
by any United States custom official,
collector of internal revenue or his
deputies, and taken before a United
States Judge, whose duty it shall be
to order that he be deported from the
United States, as provided by this
act and the act to which this is an
amendment, unless he shall show
clearly to the satisfaction of said
Judge that by reason of accident,
sickness or other unavoidable cause
he has been unable to procure his
certificate, and shall show to the
satisfaction of the United States
Judge by at least one creditable wit
ness other than Chinese that he was
resident of the United States on
May s, 1892, and if upon hearing it
shall appear that he is entitled to a
certificate it shall be granted upon
his paying the costs. Should it ap-
pear that said Chinaman had pro-
cured a certificate which had been
lost or destroyed, he shall be de-
tanned and judgment suspended a
reasonable time to enable him to
procure a duplicate from the officer
granting it, and in such case the
cost of arrest and trial shall be in
the discretion of the Judge. Any
Chinese person other than a Chinese
laborer, having the right to be and
remain in the United States and de-
string such certificate as evidence of
such right, may apply for and receive
the same without charge, and that
no proceeding for violations of the
provisions of said section of said
act as originally enacted shall here
after be instituted and that all pro-
ceedings for SAID violation now
pending are hereby discontinued
Section 2-The words "laborer
or "laborers wherever used in this
act or in the act to which this is an
amendment shall be construed to
mean both skilled and unskilled
manual laborers, including Chinese
employed in mining, in fishing, huck-
stering, peddling, laundrymen, or
those engaged in taking and drying
or otherwise preserving shell or
other fish for home consumption or
expectation.
The President of Venezuela has
resigned and was succeeded by Vice