The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-28

ticket or passage Is palu LOT Win IH'
money of another, or who is assisted
by others to come, unless 1t IS afflrma
lively and satisfactorily shown that
such person does not belong to one OF
the foregoing excluded classes, and that
said ticket or passage was not palO
for by any corporation, association, So
eiety, municipality, or foreign govern.
ment, either directly or indirectly; all
children under sixteen years of age, un-
accompanied by one or both of their
parents, at the discretion of the See
rotary of Commerce and Labor or un-
der such regulations as he may from
time to time prescribe: Provided, That
nothing in this act shall exclude, If
otherwise admissible, persons convict
ed of an offense purely political, not
involving moral turpitude: Provided
further, That the provisions of this
section reIating to the payments for
tickets CT passage by any corporation,
association, society, municipality, or
foreign government shall not apply to
the tickets or passage of aliens in
| immediate and continuous transit
through the United States to foreign
contiguous territory: And provided
further, That skilled labor may be inn
ported if labor of like kind unemploy
| ed can not be found in this country:
And provided further, That the provi-
sions of this law applicable to contract
! labor shall not be held to exclude pro-
fessional actors, artists, lecturers, sing
ers, ministers of any religious denomin
alton, professors for colleges or semin-
aries, persons belonging to any recog
nized learned profession, or persons
employed strictly as personal or domes
| tie servants.
See. 8. That the importation into the
United States of any alien woman or
girl for the purpose of prostitution, or
for any other immoral purpose, is here
by forbidden; and whoever shall di-
rectly or indirectly, import, or attempt
to import, into the United States, any
alien woman or girl for the purpose of
prostitution, or for any other immoral
purpose, or whoever shall hold or at
tempt to hold any alien woman or girl
for any such purpose in pursuance of
such Illegal importation, or whoever
shall keep, maintain, control, support,
or harbor in any house or other place,
for the purpose of prostitution, or for
any other immoral purpose, any alien
woman or girl, within three years after
she shall have entered the United
States, shall, in every such case, DE
deemed guilty of felony, and on con-
vietion thereof be imprisoned not more
than five years and pay fine of not
more than five thousand dollars; and
any alien woman or girl who shall be
found an inmate of a house of prostitu-
ton or praetieing prostitution, at any
time within three years a. Ter she shall
have entered the United States,
shall be deemed to be unlaw
fully within the United States and
shall be deported as provided by Sec
tions twenty and twenty-one of this
act.
See. 4. That it shall be a misde-
meanor for any person, company, part
nership, or corporation, in any manner
whatsoever, to prepay the transporta-
ton or IN any way to assist or en-
courage the importst ton or migration
of any contract laborer or contract
laboreFs into the United States, unless
such contract laborer or contract la
borers are exempted under the terms
of the last two provisos contained in
section two of this act.
See. 5. That for every violation of
any of the provisions of section four
of this act the persons, partnership,
company, or corporation violating the
same, by knowingly assisting, encour-
aging, or soliciting the migration or
importation of any contract laborer in
to the United States shall forfeit and
pay for every such offense the sum
of one thousand dollars, which may
be sued for and recovered by the Unit
ed States, or by any person who shall
f1rst bring his action therefor in his
OWL name and for his own benefit, in
Guiding any such alien thus promised
labor or service of any kind as afore-
said, as debts of like amount are now
recovered in the courts of the United
States; and separate suits may be
brought for each alien thus promised
labor or service of any kind as afore-
said. And it shall be the duty of the
district attorney of the proper district
to prosecute every such suit when
brought by the United States.
See. 8. That it shall be unlawful
and be deemed violation of section
four cf this act to assist or encourage
the Importation or migration of any
alien by promise of employment
through advertisements printed and
published II any foreign country; and
any alien coming to this country in
consequence oG such an advertisement
shall be treated as coming under prom
lse or agreement as contemplated in
section two of this act, and the penal
ties imposed by section five of this
act shall be applicable to such case:
Provided, That this section shall not
apply to States and Territories. the
District of Columbia, or places subject
to the jurisdiction of the United States
advertising the inducements they offer
for immigration thereto, respectively.
See. 4. That no transportation com
paRy or owner or owners of vessels, or
others engaged in transporting aliens
into the United States, shall, directly
or indirectly, either by writing. print
ing, or oral representation, solicit, in
wife, or encourage the immigration of
any aliens into the United States, but
this shall not be held to prevent trans
portatiOn companies from issuing let
tiers, circulars, or advertisements, stat
ing the sailings of their vessels and
terms and facilities of transportation
therein; and for violation of this pro-