Annual Report of the Commissioner-General of ImmigrationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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African black aliens admitted aliens departed American appeal applications applying for admission become public charges board of special bond British West Indies bureau Canada Canadian cent contract laborers Criminal Cuban debarred deported Division of Information Ellis Island emigration employment ended June 30 enforcement entry Favus Female fiscal year ended German German Empire Government Grand total habeas corpus Hawaii Hebrew Hindus hospital immi immigration act immigration laws immoral purpose increase indicted Insane inspection INSPECTOR IN CHARGE investigations Italian south Japanese land large number Magyar makers Male Merchants Mexican Miscellaneous Montenegrin months natives number of aliens occupation officers ordered deported Pacific Islander passengers passports pending persons Pleaded guilty ports Prostitutes races return certificates Roumanian Russian Russian Empire Russniak Ruthenian seamen sentenced Slovak smuggling special inquiry steamship stowaways Syrian TABLE tion Total number Trachoma Tuberculosis United States attorney UNIV vessels violation of section West Indian West Indies white-slave women workers
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Page 15 - Provided further /That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President...
Page 135 - It shall be the duty of said division to promote a beneficial distribution of aliens admitted into the United States among the several States and Territories desiring immigration. Correspondence shall be had with the proper officials of the States and Territories, and said division shall gather from all available sources, useful information regarding the resources, products and physical characteristics of each State and Territory...
Page 27 - The money thus collected shall be paid into the United States Treasury and shall constitute a permanent appropriation to be called the 'immigrant fund,' to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury to defray the expense of regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States under...
Page 16 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President may refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental...
Page 357 - Consequently in recent years there has been a rapid increase in the number of community day schools.
Page 156 - ... guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars...
Page 171 - ... ability to earn a living. In each case in the proceedings before the Board of Special Inquiry to pass on the admissibility of the alien, the examining physicians of the Health Department certified to his diseased condition or disability on arrival, adding: "In our opinion the condition herein certified might have been detected by competent medical examination at the port of embarkation.
Page 6 - ... or with a 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 a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living...
Page 163 - as understood at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. One of these principles is that no person shall be deprived of his liberty without opportunity, at some time, to be heard, before such officers, in respect of the matters upon which that liberty depends — not necessarily an opportunity upon a regular, set occasion, and according to the forms of judicial procedure, but one that will secure the prompt, vigorous action contemplated by Congress, and at the same time be appropriate to the...
Page 27 - The sum demanded of him is not, therefore, strictly speaking, a tax or duty within the meaning of the Constitution. The money thus raised, though paid into the Treasury, is appropriated in advance to the uses of the statute, and does not go to the general support of the Government.