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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · October 1, 1888 · Chapter 1064

Chapter 1064.

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CHAP. 1064.— An act a supplement to an act entitled “An act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese,” approved the sixth day of May eighteen hundred and eighty-two.October 1, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Exclusion of Chinese laborers.Vol. 22, p. 59.*Ante*, p. 476. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any Chinese laborer who shall at any time heretofore have been or who may now or hereafter be, a resident within the United States, and who shall have departed, or shall depart, therefrom, and shall not have returned before the passage of this act, to return to, or remain in, the United States.
Sec. 2. No certificates for return to be issued.That no certificates of identity provided for in the fourth and fifth sections of the act to which this is a supplement shall hereafter be issued: and every certificate heretofore issued in pursuance thereof, is hereby declared void and of no effect, and the Chinese laborer claiming admission by virtue thereof shall not be permitted to enter the United States. Sec. 3. Penalties.That all the duties prescribed, liabilities penalties and forfeitures imposed, and the powers conferred by the second, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, sections of the act to which this is a supplement are hereby extended and made applicable to the provisions of this act.
Sec. 4. Repeal provisions.That all such part or parts of the act to which this is a supplement as are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, October 1, 1888. Chapter 1065: to authorize the Postmaster-General to advertise for and purchase improved registered mail locks and keys therefor Chapter 1065 25 Stat. 504 1888-10-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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