The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-18
TO REGISTER
CH|NAMEN
Collector W. Haywood's
Big Task.
WILL EMPLOY DEPUTIES
Task VIII Occupy Nearly Fifty Men
For the Next Nine Months
or More.

Within few weeks Collector William
Haywood of the United States Internal
Revenue department viii take up a task
that will occupy him for the better part
OF the next nine months. According to
the terms of the Organic Act every Chi
nese in the Hawaiian Islands must be
registered according to the laws of the
United States before June 14th, 1901, and
this task falls to the lot of the Internal
Revenue department so Mr.. Haywood will
have it on his hands.
When it remembered that there are
about $1,000 Chinese in the Islands and
that every man and woman and child of
them must be registered, photographed
and given Identification cards, the size of
the task will be appreciated. The United
States laws are very strict on the matter
of Chinese immigration, since the passage
of the Chinese Exclusion Act and in the
States any Chinese who has not his GER
tificate when an officer of the Chinese
bureau happens upon him is liable to in
slant deportation. 1t will be the same
in the Islands after next June. Until that
time the Chinese in the Islands are given
a chance to register and prove their right
to be here but after that they must have
their certificates or they viii be liable to
be sent back to the Orient by the first
boat that comes along.
Some time ago Mr. Haywood prepared
drafts of the blanks necessary for the task
of registering the Chinese and these are
lexpected to arrive by the next steamer
and then the work of registering will be-
gin at once. 1t viii require a large force
lof deputies and Mr.. Haywood win employ
from forty to fifty men.
Under the Hawaiian laws Chinese who
came to the Islands were required to reg
lister, but that does not prevent the United
States Government from requiring them
TO be once more registered and the
United States law is stricter than that
lof the Islands on the subject. Each Chi
inese will be looked up by one of Mr..
Haywood's agents and he Will then be
photographed and list of any identifica-
ton marks on his body made. Then he
Twill be given a certificate, with his picture
pasted in it, describing who he is, how
long he has been in the Islands and
what his business is. This paper will be
his protection when the agents of the
board come around and IL ii is lost and
he cannot prove his identity to the salts
faction of the bureau he Will have no re-
source but to so back to China at public
expense.
2 When he wishes to pay a visit to the
Orient he will have to go to the office OF
: the Collector of Customs and there OBJ
tain a permit to do so bearing his photo
graph and identification marks, and every
means will be taken so that this paper
e may describe him and him only, lest he
2 should decide not to come back and try
I to sell it to some brother Celestial. These
. papers command high price among Chi
nese at home and many times great risks
4 will be taken and much money expended
for their purchase so anxious are the Chi
f tnese TO make their homes in the land o.
a the Mclean man and to get hold of some
: lof the gold with which that land is cur
rently supposed by the Chinese TO be over
flowing.
The Chinese of this city are well awar
r OF the provision in the Organic Act tha
: Erequires them to register and Air. Hay
. wood has had numerous applications 10
= information on the subject from Chimes
e Of late. 1t is likely that the appointment
: OF some of the deputies for the work vii
e b.. made within a short time for the worl
Il must begin soon as the blanks com
from Washington and will continue unit
the work is all completed which VIII no
be until late in the spring or perhaps IN
last date for registration, June 18th.