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

case of not less than one hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars or by
| Imprisonment for a term not exceed
| ing one year, or by both such fine and
| Imprisonment; and every such alien so
| landed shall be deemed to be unlaw-
fully in the United States and shall be
deported as provided in sections TWEEN
ty and twenty-one of this act.
Sec. 49, That all aliens brought to
this country in violation of law shall,
if practicable, be Immediately sent back
to the country whence they respective
ly came on the vessels bringing them.
The cost of their maintenance while
on land, as well as the expense of the
return of such aliens, shall be borne
by the owner or owners of the vessels
on which they respectively came; and
if any master, person in charge, agent,
owner, or consignee of any such ves-
sci shall refuse to receive back on
board thereof, or on board of any other
vessel owned or operated by the same
interests, such aliens, or shall fail to
detain them thereon, or shall refuse
or fail to return them to the foreign
port from which they came, or to pay
the cost of their maintenance while on
land, or shall make any charge for the
return of anv such alien, or shall take
any security from him for the pay
ment of such charge, such master, per-
son in charge, agent, owner, or con-
signee shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and shall, on conviction,
be punished by fine of not less than
three hundred dollars for each and ev-
cry such offense; and no vessel shall
have clearance from any port of the
United States while any such fine is
unpaid: Provided, That the Commission
er General of immigration, with the
approval OF the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor, may suspend, upon condi-
tions to be prescribed by the Commits
sioner General of immigration, the de-
portation of any alien found to have
come in violation of any provision of
this act, if, in his judgment, the testi-
mony of such alien is necessary on
behalf of this United States Govern
ment in the prosecution of offenders
against any provision of this act: Pro-
vided, That the cost of maintenance OF
any person so detained resulting from
such suspension Of deportation shall be
paid from the immigrant fund.- but
no alien certified. as provided in sec
ton seventeen of this act, to be suffer
ing from tuberculosis or from loath-
some or dangerous contagious disease
other than one of quarantinable nature
shall be permitted to land for medical
treatment thereof in any hospital In
the United States, unless with the eX-
press permission of the Secretary OF
Commerce and Labor: Provided, That
upon the certificate of a medical officer
of the United States Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service to the
effect that the health or safety of an
insane alien would be unduly imper-
lied by immediate deportation, such
alien may, at the expense of the "lm-
migrant fund.- be held for treatment
until such time as such alien may, IN
the opinion of such medical officer, be
safely deported.
Sec. 20. That any alien who shall
enter the United States in violation
of law, and such as become publ;
charges from causes existing prior to
landing, shall, upon the warrant of the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, De
taken into custody and deported to the
country whence it came at any time
within three years after the date OF
his entry into the United States. Such
deportation, including one-half OF the
entire cost of removal to the port OF
deportation, shall be at the expense
of the contractor, procurer, or other
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