The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-12
NEW Immigration
REGULATION ISSUED
All Aliens Must Now Have Ger.
tificateS Before Going to
San Francisco.

New regulations regarding the issu-
ance of certificates TO aliens travelling
to San Francisco which have been in
force for about a week at the federal
immigration station have already
brought many sad exigencies before the
devoted inspectors of that service. This
new order of the department excerpts
NO one not citizen unless he has re-
sided in the Territory for at least three
years. 1t makes no difference whether
the traveller go steerage or in the cabin,
| he must either produce this certificate
at San Francisco or undergo serious
Inconvenience while he proves his
stop-over at this port.
| One of those of the service who has
hit bump in this new road of official
procedure is Inspector Edwin Farmer
Farmer was put up against the PROPOSE
ton which since the time of the Sphinx
and other ancients has been aeknowl-
edged to be the hardest ever This was
guessing the age of two old maiden
ladies neither of whom would take
that responsibility upon themselves.
Age Stumps En-.
The ladies were both English and
when they applied to Farmer for their
certificates they refused to give their
ages, considering the request matter
of impertinence. Farmer gently i'm
pressed them with the fact that this
was all that stood between them and
trip to Frisco and finally received or
ders to put it down as anything he
wanted
The inspectors pen lowered gallant
ly over the pertinent blank and de-
scribed the faint curve of figure two.
Then he took another look at his sub
jects and thought of the trouble ahead
when the San Francisco inspector tried
to reconcile the bearer with the figure
"22" on the certificate. So he desper-
ately wrote on the corner of one $3.50
years. and on the other $50 years, u
laid the certificates on the corner Of
the table and ran all the way back to
the immigration depot. The interview
by the way, occurred at the ladies resi-
dence.
All Included.
The new law embraces everyone and
about fifty have been issued for the
Sierra this morning, small percentage
of which only are for cabin passengers
Thirty out of the fifty are for Spanish
or Portuguese, recent immigrants t.
Hawaii.
The certificate is primarily for tn,
purpose of informing the San Francisco
, authorities that the bearers have paiC
, their our.dollar-headtax upon entranc
into the country as aliens, and are con
!, sequently immune from it at that port
The old regulation called for certif
;. cate for steerage passengers only.
All immigrants must also pay thi
head tax of four dollars, with the Q,
= ception of those who come through th
port of Honolulu, such as on the Willet
! den and Harpalion. Should they go t
= San Francisco inside of three year
. they would become amendable to tn
= tax at that port, but by staying owe
here for that period they would be in
mune altogether. Immigration comm
Q to Honolulu are therefore the only one
d who may escape the tax which Uncl
|, Sam levies against his foreign visitor:
e The sum of $1,012,426 for the insta
5, lation of motor.driven fire apparatus t
l. replace the horse-driven apparatus no.
d in use, is asked by the board of fiji
d commissioners of San Francisco, in il
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