Temporary Admission of Illiterate Mexican Laborers: Hearings Before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.J. Res. 271 Relating to the Temporary Admission of Illiterate Mexican LaborersU.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 - 375 pages |
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Page 8 - An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States...
Page 361 - ... who have been induced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment or in consequence of agreements, oral, written, or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled...
Page 358 - Provided further, That the Commissioner General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor...
Page 179 - 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 at such port or district, then to the collector nearest thereto, by the master, agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel, transportation line, or other conveyance or vehicle bringing such alien to the United States.
Page 179 - ... shall come, or, if there be no collector at such port or district, then to the collector nearest thereto, by the master, agent, owner, or consignee of every such vessel or transportation line.
Page 180 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the transportation, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia...
Page 176 - That the said tax shall not be levied upon aliens who shall enter the United States after an uninterrupted residence of at least one year, immediately preceding such entrance, in the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Cuba, or the Republic of Mexico...
Page 176 - States, nor on account of aliens in transit through the United States, nor upon aliens who have been lawfully admitted to the United States and who later shall go in transit from one part of the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory...
Page 176 - States against the owner or owners of such vessel, or other vehicle, and the payment of such tax may be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy. That the said tax shall not be levied...
Page 349 - Government as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, and all present wholesome restrictions in other respects be retained.