The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-03-01
MANuKA TO REPLACE M1owERA.

The CA. s. S. Manuka is to take
the place of the S. S. Miowera on tho
| next trip up of that vessel from the
Colonies. The Manuka will be due
here on or before May 1, en- route to
Victoria and Vancouver
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reports, entries, and other papers. and
shall issue from time to time such in
structions, not inconsistent with law, as
he shall deem best calculated for car
ring out the provisions of this act and
for protecting the United States and
aliens migrating thereto from fraud
and loss, and shall have authority to
enter into contract for the support and
relief of such aliens as may fall into
distress or need public aid; all under
the direction or with the approved of
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
And it shall be the duty of the Com
missioner General of Immigration to de-
tail officers of the immigration service
from time to time as may be necessary,
in his judgment, to secure information
as to the number of aliens detained in
the penal, reformatory, and charitable
institutions (public and privately of the
several States and Territories, the Dis
trict of Columbia, and other territory
of the United States and to inform the
officers of such institutions of the pro-
visions of law in relation to the de-
pOrtation of aliens who have become
public charges Provided, That the
Commissioner General of Immigration
may, with the approval of the Secre-
tary of Commerce and Labor, when
ever in his judgment such action may
be necessary to accomplish the purposes
of this act, detail immigration officers,
and also surgeons, in accordance with
the provisions of section seventeen, for
service in foreign countries.
See. %. That the duties of the COM
missioners of immigration shall be of
an administrative character, to be pre-
scribed in detail by regulations pre-
pared, under the direction or with the
approval of the Secretary of Com-
merce and Labor.
Sec. "a. That immigrant inspectors
and other immigration officers, clerks,
and employees shall hereafter be APP
pointed and their compensation fixed
and raised or decreased from time to
time, by the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor upon the recommendation
of the Commissioner General of Immi-
grafton and in accordance with the
provisions of the civil-service act of
January sixteenth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-three: Provided, That said
Secretary, in the enforcement of that
portion of this act which excludes con-
tract laborers, may employ, without
reference to the provisions of the said
civil-service act, or to the various acts
relative to the compilation of the Off
cial register, such persons as he may
deem advisable and from time to time
fix, raise, or decrease their compensa-
ton. He may draw from the immi-
grant" fund annually fifty thousand
dollars or as much thereof as may be
necessary, to be expended for the sal
aries and expenses of persons so en-
ployed and for expenses incident to
such employment and the accounting
officers .. the Treasury shall pass to
the credit of the proper discussing
officer expenditures from said sum with
out itemized account whenever the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor GER
titles that an itemized account would
not be for the best interests of the
Government: Provided further, That
nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to alter the mode of appoint
ing commissioners of immigration at
the several ports of the United States
as provided by the sundry civil ap-
act approved August
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and nine
ty.four, or the official status of such
commissioners heretofore appointed.
officers shall have power
to administer oaths and to take and
consider evidence touching the right
of any alien to enter the United States,
and, where such action may be neees-
sary, to make written record of such
evidence; and any person to whom such
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