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becomes the lej^al wife of the man, 

 leaves Japan with her i)assi)ort made 

 out as Airs., and arrives here the wife of 

 a domiciled alien. Six thousand and 

 three have so arrived at San Francisco 

 in the last ten years. 



CHINESE ADMITTED 



The woid "exclusion" used in con- 

 ccntion with the Chinese law doubtless 

 leads many people into the belief that 

 now there arc no Chinese admitted to 

 the United States for the first time. 

 Such is not the case, as the followinjj; 

 are exempt classes under the Chinese 

 Exclusion Act, coming to the United 

 States for the first time on passports or 

 other means of identification : 



1. Officials (including Presidents of 

 any of the "Six Companies," made cx- 

 oflticio members of the Consulate in 

 order to be admitted.) Wives, children 

 (natural or adopted) and servants of 

 officials, born in any foreign country 

 whatsoever. There are no restrictions 

 on the official class other than the 

 passport requirement. 



2. Merchants, their wives and their 

 children, whether natural or ado])ted. 

 (Merchants may return to the United 

 States without a new passport after 

 spending a year in the United States as 

 merchants on testimony of two credible 

 witnesses other than Chinese.) 



3. Travelers and their families. (After 

 com]jleting their travels they may 

 remain in the United States by becoming 

 merchants or teachers. ) 



4. Teachers and their families. 

 Teachers may return to the United 

 States on same conditions as mer- 

 chants. 



5. Students. These may return to 

 the United States on the same conditions 

 as merchants or teachers. 



6. While no Chinese laborers have 

 been allowed to come to the United 

 States for the first time since Noveml)er, 

 1M(S2. nevertheless those who were in 

 this country on that date, or who had 

 been here and came back within ninet\- 

 days of that date, were allowed to go to 

 China and return at will up to the time 

 of passage of the Geary Act in W)^, 

 and since then have been allowed to go 

 and return proxidc d th( >• fulfilled the 



requirements of registration according 

 to law, had ]jroperty worth Si, 000 in 

 the United States, or debts (nved to 

 them aggregating that amount, or had a 

 family, and provided the\' returned 

 within one year, generally speaking, or 

 within two years if circumstances en- 

 tirely beyond their control had arisen 

 and thereby legitimately detained them. 



It will be readily appreciated that 

 with these six classes of Chinese allowed 

 to enter the United States, the total 

 annual Chinese immigration is of con- 

 siderable volume. 



Chinese immigration to this country 

 began in 1848 when the brig "Eagle" 

 brought two men and one woman from 

 Hongkong — it increased rapidh' but 

 irregularly; and in a speech delivered 

 before the United States Senate on 

 March 7, 1878, the Hon. A. A. Sargeant 

 estimated that, up to October, 1876, 

 233,136 Chinese had come to the United 

 States and that 93,273 had dej^arted 

 therefrom, leaving a total of 139,863 in 

 the country on that date. 



The restrictions of the exclusion law, 

 the departure for China and other places 

 and the natural mortality have very 

 greatly reduced the number of domiciled 

 Chinese until at the present date there 

 arc probably not more than 100,000 in 

 our country. 



The exclusion law does not exclude 

 with such inflexibihty that at the present 

 time there is no Chinese immigration as 

 a glance at the following table showing 

 the arrivals for the last ten \-ears will 

 ljro\'e. 



ESE, including alleged citizens, landed 



Francisco alone, during the years 



(Fiscal year ending June 30, 1915.) 



CHIN 

 at San 

 specified. 

 Year 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 

 1912 

 191.^ 

 1914 

 1915 



J.\I'.\NI-:SE: 

 1915 



Male 

 1,701 

 1.741 

 2,047 

 2,889 

 4,294 

 .^,700 

 2,787 

 .^,1.^0 

 .?,145 

 .^404 

 3,694 



32,532 



Female 



67 

 102 



99 

 165 

 278 

 252 

 189 

 172 

 239 

 206 

 242 



2,011 



2,788 2,113 



Total 

 1,768 

 1,843 

 2,146 

 3,054 

 4,572 

 3,952 

 2,976 

 3,302 

 3.384 

 3,610 

 3,936 



34,543 



4.901 



