The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-05-08
BYAUTHORITY
ACT II.

AN AcT RELATING TO CHINESE IMMIGRA-
TIoN, SUPPLEMENTARY TO CHATTER
xxx OF THE SESSION LAWS OF
1892, PASSED THE 3OrH DAY OF No
vEMBER, A. D. 1892, ENTITLED AN
ACT RESTRICTING CHINESE IsnnGRA-
TIoN"
Be It Enacted By the Eree,aire and Id
risOry Councils Of the Provisional
Government of the Hduaiiaa Islands:
SECTION l. In addition to the condi-
tons named in Section 2 of Chapter
LINK of the Session Laws of 1892,
upon which permits may be granted to
Chinese to enter the Hawaiian Islands to
engage as agricultural laborers in the
field, or In rice or sugar mills, such per
mits shall only be granted upon the fur
Their condition that the sum of one dollar
and fifty cents out of the wages due the
laborer at the end of each month shall
be paid by his employer to the Board of
immigration in such manner and subject
to such regulations as said Board shall
direct, until such payments amount In
| each case to the sum of thirty-six dollars,
to be held as fund to the credit of the
laborer for the uses and purposes here
matter set forth.
SECTION 2. The Board of immigration
shall keep proper accounts with each
laborer of the amounts deposited by him
under this Act. At the heading of each
account shall be pasted the laborer's
photograph and be written in his name
and the number of his certificate. All
moneys thus deposited by the laborers
shall be invested by the Board of Immi-
grafton in the Postal Savings Bank, and
the interest shall be credited to each
laborer's account at the same rate and In
the same manner as is being done by the
Postal Savings Bank.
SECTION 3. For the purpose of prop
erly identifying the laborer, he shall
upon his arrival In this country furnish
the Board of Immigration with two
three-fourths face photographs, one of
which is to be retained by the Board OF
Immigration, and the other one is to be
attached to the laborer's certificate of
Identification.
SECTION 4. When the laborer shall
cease to follow his avocation as an agri-
cultural laborer in the field, or as
laborer in sugar or rice mills, and shall
depart from the Hawaiian Islands, the
amount to his credit shall be used as
follows: The Board of immigration shall
apply so much thereof as may be neces-
sary for the payment of his passage and
pay the remainder to him.
SECTION 8. Every employer of Chinese
admitted into this country under permits
provided by said Act, who shall fail to
remit to the Board of Immigration the
amount above provided out of the wages
of such laborers, at the time and in the
manner directed by said Board, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
liable to fine of not less than ten nor
more than fifty dollars for each failure;
and the said Board may thereafter refuse
to grant the application of such en-
ployer for permits for Chinese to enter
this country.
Provided, however, if any such en-
ployer shall within thirty days after each
failure show to said Board good and
satisfactory reason for such failure, said
penalties shall not be imposed.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect
from the date of its publication.
Approved this 3rd day of May A. d.
1894
(Signed) SANFORD B. DOLE,
President of the Provisional Government
of the Hawaiian Islands
(Signed) J. A. KING,
Minister Of the Interior.
1881
II. r. HITCHCOCK, ESQ, has this
day been appointed a Notary Public for
Second Judicial Circuit OF the Hawaiian
Islands.
J. 4. KING,
Minister OF the Interior.
Interior Office, April 30, 1894.
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