The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-03-01

An Act TO Regulate the immigration
of Aliens Into the United States.
Be il enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the United
States of America IN Congress assem-.
bled, That there shall be levied, col
lected, and paid tax of four dol
lars for every alien entering the United
States. The said tax shall be paid to
the collector of customs of the port or
customs district to which said alien
shall come, or, if there be no collector
Mt such port or district, then to the
collector nearest thereto, by the master,
agent, owner, or consignee of the YES
sci, transportation line, or other con-
veyance or vehicle bringing such alien
to the United States. The money thus
collected, together with all fines and
rentals collected under the laws regu-
lating the immigration of aliens into
the United States, shall be paid into
the Treasury of the United States, and
shall constitute a permanent appro-
priation to be called the immigrant
fund.- to be used under the direction
Of the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor to defray the expense of regu-
lating the immigration of aliens into
the United States under said laws, in
eluding the contract labor laws, the
cost of reports of decisions Of the Fed
eral courts, and digest thereof, for the
use of the Commissioner General of
Immigration, and the salaries and ex-
penses of all officers, clerks, and en-
ployes appointed to enforce said laws.
The tax imposed by this section shall
be lien upon the vessel, or other
vehicle of carriage or transportation
bringing such aliens to the United
States, and shall be debt in favor
of the United States against the owner
or owners of such vessel, or other vehi-
Gle, and the payment of such tax may
be enforced by any legal or equitable
remedy. That the said tax shall not
be levied upon aliens who shall enter
the United States after an uninterrupt
ed residence of at least one year, i'm
mediately preceding such entrance, in
the Dominion of Canada, Newfound-
land, the Republic of Cuba, or the Re-
public of Mexico, nor upon otherwise
admissible residents of any possession
of the United States, nor upon aliens
in transit through the United States,
nor upon aliens who have been law
fully admitted to the United States
and who later shall go in transit from
one part of the United States to an
other through foreign contiguous ter
ritory: Provided, That the Commits
sioner General of immigration, under
the direction or with the approval of
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor,
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as provided in section thirty-two of
this act, may arrange in some other
manner for the payment of the tax
imposed by this section upon any or
all aliens seeking admission from for
eign contiguous territory. Provided
further, That if in any fiscal year the
amount of money collected under the
provisions of this section shall exceed
two million five hundred thousand dol
lar, the excess above that amount shall
not be added to the ''immigrant
fund.- Provided further, That the
provisions of this section shall not APP
ply to aliens arriving in Guam, Porto
Rico, or Hawaii; but if any such alien,
not having become citizen of the
United States, shall later arrive at any
the North American Continent the pro-
visions of this section shall apply: PRO
VlDED FURTHER, THAT WHEN
EVER THE PRESIDENT SHALL BE
SATISFIED THAT PASSPORTS IS
SUED BY ANY FOREIGN GOVERN
MENT TO ITS CITIZENS TO GO To-
ANY COUNTRY OTHER THAN THE
UNITED STATES OR TO ANY IN.
SULAR POSSESSION OF THE UNIT
ED STATES OR TO THE CANAL
ZONE ARE BEING USED FOR THE
PURPOSE OF ENABLING THE
HOLDERS TO COME TO THE CON
TINENTAL TERRITORY OF THE
UNITED STATES TO THE DETRI-
MENT OF LABOR CONDITIONS
THEREIN, THE PRESIDENT MAY
REFUSE TO PERMIT SUCH CITI-
ZENS OF THE COUNTRY ISSUING
SUCH PASSPORTS TO ENTER THE
TERRITORY of
THE UNITED STATES FROM SUCH
OTHER COUNTRY OR FROM SUCH
INSULAR POSSESSIONS OR FROM
THE CANAL ZONE.
Sec. 9. The the following class of
aliens shall be excluded from admis-
sion into the United States All idiots,
imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epilep-
tics, insane persons, and persons who
have been insane within five years
previous; persons who have had two
or more attacks of insanity at any
time previously; paupers; persons like
" to become public charge; profess
sional beggars; persons afflicted with
tuberculosis or with loathsome or
dangerous contagious disease; persons
not comprehended within any of the
foregoing excluded classes who are
found to be and are certified by the
examining surgeon as being mentally
or physically defective, such mental
or physical defect being of nature
which may affect the ability of such
alien to earn a living; persons who
have been convicted of or admit hav-
ing committed felony or other crime
or misdemeanor involving moral turpi-
tude; polygamists, or persons who ad-
NIT their belief in the practice of poly
gamy, anarchists, or persons who be-
lieve in or advocate the overthrow by
force or violence of the Government
of the United States, or of all gov.
eminent, or OF all forms of law, or
the assassination of public officials;
prostitutes, or women or girls coming
into the United States for the purpose
of prostitution or for any other i'm.
moral purpose; persons who procure or