Chapter 1088. To amend sections four thousand and seventy-six, four thousand and seventy-eight, and four thousand and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes
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CHAP. 1088.— An Act To amend sections four thousand and seventy-six, four thousand and seventy-eight, and four thousand and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes. June 14, 1902.[[Public, No. 158](/us/pl/57/158).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Passports.Issue, etc., in insular possessions.[R. S., sec. 4075, p. 785, amended](/us/rs/s4075/p785). That section four thousand and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended by inserting after the phrase “consular officers of the United States” the following:
“and by such chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States.” Sec. 2. Allegiance necessary.[R. S., sec. 4076, p. 786, amended](/us/rs/s4076/p786). That section four thousand and seventy-six of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: “No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States.” Sec. 3. Passports to persons not owing allegiance, prohibited.[R.
S., sec. 4078, p. 786, amended](/us/rs/s4078/p786). That section four thousand and seventy-eight is hereby amended so as to read: “If any person acting or claiming to act in any office or capacity under the United States, its possessions, or any of the States of the United States, who shall not be lawfully authorized so to do, shall grant, issue, or verify any passport or other instrument in the nature of a passport to or for any person whomsoever, or if any consular officer who shall be authorized to grant, issue, or verify passports shall knowingly and willfully grant, issue, or verify any such passport to or for any person not owing allegiance, whether a Punishment for violation. citizen or not, to the United States, he shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not more than five hundred dollars, or Trial, etc. both; and may be charged, proceeded against, tried, convicted, and dealt with therefor in the district where he may be arrested or in custody.
Approved, June 14, 1902.