Chapter 220. to amend an act to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 220.— An Act to amend an act to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia.Feb. 23, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Act prohibiting importation of laborers under contract amended.Vol. 23, p. 333. That an act to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia, approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen 415 hundred and eighty-five, and to provide for the enforcement thereof, be amended by adding the following:
" “Sec. 6. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby charged withContracts with State officers to take charge of immigration. the duty of executing the provisions of this act, and for that purpose he shall have power to enter into contracts with such State Commission, board, or officers as may be designated for that purpose by the Governor of any State to take charge of the local affairs of immigration in the ports within said State, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by said Secretary; and it shall be the duty of such State Commission, board, or officers so designated to examine into the condition of passengersExamination of ships. arriving at the ports within such State in any ship or vessel, and for that purpose all or any of such commissioners or officers, or such other person or persons as they shall appoint, shall be authorized to go on board of and through any such ship or vessel; and if in such examinationProhibited persons not to be landed. there shall be found among such passengers any person included in the prohibition in this act, they shall report the same in writing to the collector of such port, and such persons shall not be permitted to land.
“Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish such regulationsRules, etc., to be prescribed by Secretary of the Treasury. and rules, and issue from time to time such instructions, not inconsistent with law, as he shall deem best calculated for carrying out the provisions of this act; and he shall prescribe all forms of bonds, entries, and other papers to be used under and in the enforcement of the various provisions of this act. “Sec. 8. That all persons included in the prohibition in this act,Return of prohibited persons. upon arrival, shall be sent back to the nations to which they belong and from whence they came.
The Secretary of the Treasury may designate the State board of charities of any State in which such board shall exist by law, or any commission in any State, or any person or persons in any State, whose duty it shall be to execute the provisions of this section and shall be entitled to reasonable compensation therefor to beCompensation. fixed by regulation proscribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations for the return of the aforesaid persons to the countries from whence they came, and shall furnish instructions to the board, commission, or persons charged with the execution of the provisions of this section as to the time of procedure in respect thereto, and may change such instructions from time to time.
The expense of such return of the aforesaid persons not permittedExpenses of return. to land shall be borne by the owners of the vessels in which they came. And any vessel refusing to pay such expenses shall not thereafter be permitted to land at or clear from any port of the United States. And such expenses shall be a lien on said vessel. That the necessary expense in the execution of this act for the present fiscal year, shall beAppropriation. paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
“Sec. 9. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act areConflicting laws repealed. hereby repealed. “Sec. 10. That this act shall take effect at the expiration of thirty days after its passage.” " Approved, February 23, 1887.