The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-07
BOARD OF
IMMIGRATION
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earn a living; persons who have been
convicted of or admit having commit
ted felony or other crime or misde-
meanor involving moral turpitude;
polygamists, or persons who admit
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 govern
ment, or of all forms of law, or the as
sassination of public officials; prosti-
| tutes, or women or girls coming into
the United States for the purpose of
prostitution, or for any other immoral
purpose; persons who are supported
| by or receive in whole or in part the
proceeds of prostitution; persons who
procure or attempt to bring in prosti-
tutes or women or girls for the pur-
pose of prostitution or for any other
immoral purpose; PERSONS HERE
MATTER CALLED CONTRACT La
BOXERS WHO HAVE BEEN INDUC-
ED OR SOLICITED TO MIGRATE
TO THIS COUNTRY BY OFFERS OR
PROMISES OF EMPLOYMENT OR IN
CONSEQUENCE OF AGREEMENTS,
ORAL, WRITTEN OR PRINTED, EX-
PRESSED OR IMPLIED, TO PER-
FORM LABOR IN THIS COUNTRY
OF ANY KIND, SKILLED OR UN-
SKILLED; THOSE WHO HAVE
BEEN, WITHIN ONE YEAR FROM
THE DATE OF APPLICATION FOR
ADMISSION TO THE UNITED
STATES, DEPORTED AS HAVING
BEEN INDUCED OR SOLICITED TO
MIGRATE AS ABOVE DESCRIBED;
ANY PERSON WHOSE TICKET OR
PASSAGE is PAID FOR WITH THE
MONEY OF ANOTHER, OR WHO is
ASSISTED BY OTHERS TO COME,
UNLESS 1T IS AFFIRMATIVELY
AND SATISFACTORILY SHOWN
THAT SUCH PERSON DOES NOT
BELONG TO ONE OF THE FOREGO-
ING EXCLUDED CLASSES AND
THAT SAID TICKET OR PASSAGE
WAS NOT PAID FOR BY ANY COR
PORATION, ASSOCIATION, SOCIE-
TY, MUNICIPALITY, OR FOREIGN
GOVERNMENT, EITHER DIRECTLY
OR INDIRECTLY; all children under
16 years of age unaccompanied by one
or more of their parents, at the dis
erection of the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor or under such regulations
as he may from time to time pre-
scribe; provided, that nothing in this
act shall exclude, if otherwise admis-
sible, persons convicted of an offense
purely political, not involving moral
turpitude: Provided further, That the
prov sions of this section relating 20
the payment for tickets or passage by
any corporation, association, society,
municipality or foreign government
shall not apply to the tickets or pas
sage of ALIENS in immediate and con-
tinuous transit through the United
States to foreign contiguous terri
DRY; And provided further, That skill
ed labor may be imported if labor OF
like kind unemployed can not be found
in this country; And provided further,
That the provisions of this law APP
plicable to contract labor shall not be
held to exclude professional actors, al
fists, lecturers, singers, minister oil any
religious denomination, professors Tor
colleges or seminaries persons belong
ing to any recognized learned profess
sion, or persons employed strictly as
personal or domestic servants"
The rest of the new act, dealing with
the slave trade business, greatly in
creases the severity of the lay and
will make prosecutions much more
far reaching than has been the case
with the local prosecutions of pimps.
1t is as follows:
Section 2. That section of an act
entitled 'An act to regulate the i'm
migration of aliens into the United
Safes approved February 20, 1907, is
hereby amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
"Setclon 3. That the importation IN
to the United Staes of any alien for
the purpose of prostitution or for any
other immoral purpose is hereby for
hidden; and whoever shall, directly or
indirectly, import, or attempt to inn
port, into the United States any alien
for the purpose of prostitution or for
any other immoral purpose, or who
ever shall hold or attempt to hold any
alien for any such purpose in pursu-
ance of such illegal importation or
whoever snail keep, maintain, con-
troll support, employ, or harbor in any
house or other place for the purpose