The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-18
LAWS'.FOR
THE CHINESE
New Rules for the En-
forcement Of the
Exclusion Act. u.

The following circular of interest to
all persons of Chinese birth has been
issued from Washington:
Department of Commerce and Labor
Office of the Secretary, Washington.
Department Circular No. 80. Bureau
of Immigration.
June "a. 1905.
To all officers charged with the en-
forcement of the Chinese exclusion
laws and all others whom it may
concern:
The Chinese Exclusion Regulations
approved May 8, 1906 are hereby
amended SO as to include Rule 42a,
hereby made and prescribed as follows:
Rule 42a. No Chinese person who
shall satisfy the officer in charge that
he belongs to one of the exempt classes
(although not supplied with the certif-
icate provided for by section of the
act of July S. 1884, or, if not of an
exempt class, that he is not a laborer,
shall be required to comply with so
much of the provisions of Rules 80. 40,
Al, and AZ as requires Chinese persons
seeking the privilege of transit to
furnish bond, to submit photographs of
themselves, and to be measured ac-
cording to the Bertillon system of
Identification. If, however, any such
Chinese person, after having been adj
mitted to pass in transit through the
United States, be found therein at the
expiration of twenty days from the
date of such admission, he shall be
deemed to be in the United States in
violation of law and shall be deported.
In addition to the above amendment,
Rules 1, 6. IL, II, IS. 80, 40, Al, AZ. and
43 Of the Chinese Exclusion Regula-
tons approved May 3, 1905, are hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
Rule 1. Under the provisions of the
treaty and laws in relation to the ex-
clusion of Chinese persons, only those
who are teachers students, travellers
for curiosity or pleasure, merchants
and their lawful wives and minor chill
dren, officials of the Chinese Govern
ment together with their body and
household servants. registered Chinese
laborers, seamen, as provided in Rule
38; those seeking in good faith to pass
through the country to foreign terri
tory, as provided in Rule SO and 42a,
and persons whose physical condition
necessitates immediate hospital treat
ment, shall be permitted to land under
said laws at any port of the United
States.
Rule 6. The examination prescribed
in Rule should be separate and apart
Government officials and such witness
or witnesses only g the examining Of
ficer shall designate, and if, upon the
conclusion thereof. the Chinese appli-
cant for admission is adjudged to be
inadmissable. he should be advised of
his right of appeal, and his counsel
should be permitted, after duly filing
notice of appeal, to examine and make
copies of the evidence upon which the
excluding decision is based.
Rule IL. All certificates. or other evil
dence, offered by Chinese persons to
establish their right of admission to
the United States. other than section
6 certificates and laborers' registration
certificates, shall be retained by the
officers in charge Of the administration
Of the Chinese exclusion laws at ports
of entry; the immunity from arrest of
the Chinese persons admitted thereon
resting upon their exclusive occupation
in the pursuits for which their certifi
Gates, or other evidence, claim that
they respectively seek admission to the
United States. iSee Rule 59). Provid-
ed, however. that if the officer in
charge shall have good reason to be-
lieve that any person presenting
certificate is not the person to whom
said certificate was issued, or Is not
member of the exempt class as express
ed in the certificate, he shall take up
said certificate and forward the same
to the Commissioner General of Imml-
grafton at Washington, together with
a statement of his reasons for so doing.
Rule H. Only Chinese persons regis
tered under the provisions of section
6 of the act approved May 5, 1892, as
amended by the act of November 8,
1893, are entitled to return certificates.
Rule IS. The certificates prescribed
by section of the act of July 5, 1884, on
" hich Chinese of the exempt class are
admitted to the United States, shall
be Endorsed by officers in charge by
writing across the face thereof in red
ink the fact OF the admission and the
date thereof.
Rule 49, Every Chinese laborer seek
ing the privilege of transit through the
United States to foreign territory
shall as a condition precedent to being
allowed such privilege, comply with the
following requirements; and if such a
person is found, in the judgment OF the
officer in charge at the port of arrival.
to be seeking the privilege of transit
with an Interior purpose of gaining an
unlawful access to the United States,
he shall be refused permission to land:
(a) The applicant shall be required to
produce to the officer in charge OF the
enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
laws at the port of arrival a prepaid
through ticket across the whole terri
tory of the United States, land or
water, intended to be traversed (and to
his alleged foreign destination accord
ing to the manifest of the vessel on
which he arrives), and such other
reasonable proof as may be required
of him to satisfy the said officer that
bona fide transit only is intended and
MT NOT seek the