Chapter 749. To extend the exemption from head tax to citizens of Newfoundland entering the United States
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CHAP. 749.— An Act To extend the exemption from head tax to citizens of Newfoundland entering the United States. March 22, 1904. [[H. R. 11443](/us/bill/58/hr/11443).] [[Public, No. 65](/us/pl/58/65).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Immigration. Head tax on entry of aliens. Vol. 32, p. 1213, amended. That section one, chapter ten hundred and twelve, of the Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Fifty-seventh Congress, second session), is hereby amended by inserting in line four, after the word “Canada,” the word “Newfoundland,” so as to read as follows:
" “That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of two dollarsExceptions.Citizens of Newfoundland added. for each and every passenger not a citizen of the United States, or of the Dominion of Canada. Newfoundland, the Republic of Cuba, or of the Republic of Mexico, who shall come by steam, sail, or other vessel from any foreign port to any port within the United States, or by any railway or any other mode of transportation from foreign contiguous territory in the United States.
The said duty shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port or customs district to which said alien passenger shall come, or, if there be no collector at such port or145 district, then to the collector nearest, thereto, by the master, agent, owner, or consignee of every such vessel or transportation line. TheTo be permanent appropriation called “immigrant fund.” money thus collected shall be paid into the United States Treasury and shall constitute a permanent appropriation to he 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 this Act, including the cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, and the salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act.
The duty imposed by this section shall he a lien upon the vessels which shall bring such aliens to ports of the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against the owner or owners of such vessels, and the payment of such duty may be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy. TheLien on vessels for tax. head tax herein provided for shall not be levied upon aliens in transit through the United States nor upon aliens who have once been admitted into the United States mid have paid the head tax who later shall go in transit from one part of the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory: *Provided,* That the Commissioner-General*Proviso*.Payment b y railroads.Payment by railroads. of Immigration, under the direction or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, by agreement with transportation lines, as provided in section thirty-two of this Act. may arrange in some other manner for the payment of the duty imposed by this section upon aliens seeking admission overland, either as to all or as to any such aliens,” " Approved, March 22, 1904.