CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. (CHINESE IMMIQEATION.) 



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collector or his deputy and attested by his seal of 

 office, in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury 

 shall prescribe, which certificate shall contain a state- 

 ment of the individual, family, and tribal name in 

 full, age, occupation, when and where followed, of 

 the Chinese laborer to whom the certificate is issued, 

 corresponding with the said list and registry in all 

 particulars, in case any Chinese laborer, after hav- 

 ing received such certificate, shall leave such vessel 

 before her departure, he shall deliver his certificate to 

 the master of the vessel ; and if such Chinese laborer 

 shall fail to return to such vessel before her departure 

 from port, the certificate shall be delivered uy the 

 master to the collector of customs for cancellation. 

 The certificate herein provided for shall entitle the 

 Chinese laborer to whom the same is issued to return 

 to and re-enter the United States upon producing and 

 delivering the same to the collector of customs of the 

 district at which such Chinese laborer shall seek to 

 re-enter, and said certificate shall be the only evidence 

 permissible to establish his right of re-entry ; and 

 upon delivering of such certificate by such Chinese 

 laoorer to the collector of customs at the time of re- 

 entry in the United States, said collector shall cause 

 the same to be filed in the custom-house and duly can- 

 celed." 



Section6 of said act is hereby amended so as to read 

 as follows : 



" SEC. 6. That in order to the faithful execution of 

 the provisions of this act, every Chinese person, 

 other than a laborer, who may be entitled by said 

 treaty or this act to come within the United States, 

 and who shall be about to come to the United States, 

 shall obtain the permission of and be identified as so 

 entitled by the Chinese Government, or of such other 

 foreign government of which at the time such Chi- 

 nese person shall be a subject, in each case to be evi- 

 denced by a certificate issued by such government, 

 which certificate shall be in the English language, 

 and shall show such permission, with the name of the 

 permitted person in his or her _ proper signature, and 

 which certificate shall state the individual, family, and 

 tribal name in full, title or official rank, if any, the 

 age, height, and all physical peculiarities, former and 

 present occupation or profession, when and where and 

 how long pursued, and place of residence of the per- 

 son to whom the certificate is issued, and that such 

 person is entitled by this act to come within the Unit- 

 ed States. If the person so applying for a certificate 

 shall be a merchant, said certificate snail, in addition 

 to above requirements, state the nature, character, 

 and estimated value of the business carried on by him 

 prior to and at the time of his application as afore- 

 J Provided, That nothing in this act nor in said 



wise preserving shell or other fish for home consump- 

 tion or exportation. If the certificate be sought for 

 the purposes of travel for curiosity, it shall also state 

 whether the applicant intends to pass through or trav- 

 el within the United States, together with his finan- 

 cial standing in the country from which such certifi- 

 cate is desired. The certificate provided for in this 

 act, and the identity of the person named therein, 

 shall, before such person goes on board any vessel to 

 proceed to the United States, be visaed by the in- 

 dorsement of the diplomatic representative of the 

 United States in the foreign country from which said 

 certificate issues, or of the consular representative of 

 the United States at the port or place from which the 

 person named in the certificate is about to depart ; 

 and such diplomatic representative or consular repre- 

 sentative whose indorsement is so required is hereby 

 empowered, and it shall be his duty, before indorsing 

 such certificate as aforesaid, to examine into the truth 

 of the facts set forth in said certificate, and if he shall 

 find upon examination that said or any of the statements 

 therein contained are untrue it shall be his duty to 

 refuse to indorse the same. Such certificate visaed as 



aforesaid shall be prima facie evidence of the facts set 

 forth therein, and shall be produced to the collector 

 of customs of the port in the district in the United 

 States at which the person named therein shall arrive, 

 and afterward produced to the proper authorities of 

 the United States whenever lawfully demanded, and 

 shall be the sole evidence permissible on the part of 

 the person so producing the same to establish a right 

 of entry into the United States ; but said certificate 

 may be controverted and the facts therein stated dis- 

 proved by the United States authorities. " 



Section 8 of said act is hereby amended so as to read 

 as follows : 



" SEC. 8. That the master of any vessel arriving in 

 the United States from any foreign port or place shall 

 at the same time he delivers a manifest of the cargo, 

 and if there bo no cargo, then at the time of making 

 a report of the entry of the vessel pursuant to law, in 

 addition to the other matter required to be reported, 

 and before landing, or permitting to land, any Chi- 

 nese passengers, deliver and report to the collector of 

 customs of the district in which such vessel shall have 

 arrived a separate list of all Chinese passengers taken 

 on board his vessel at any foreign port or place, and 

 all such passengers on board the vessel at that time. 

 Such list shall show the names of such passengers 

 (and if accredited officers of the Chinese, or of any 

 other foreign government, traveling on the business 

 of that government, or their servants, with a note of 

 such facts), and the names and other particulars as 

 shown by their respective certificates ; and such list 

 shall be sworn to by the master in the manner re- 

 quired by law in relation to the manifest of the cargo. 

 Any refusal or willful neglect of any such master to 

 comply with the provisions of this section shall incur 

 the same penalties and forfeiture as are provided for a 

 refusal or neglect to report and deliver a manifest of 

 the cargo." 



Section 10 of said act is hereby amepded so as to 

 read as follows : 



" SEC. 10. That every vessel whose master shall 

 knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act shall 

 be deemed forfeited to the United States, and shall be 

 liable to seizure and condemnation in any district of 

 the United States into which such vessel may enter or 

 in which she may be found." 



Section 11 of said act is hereby amended so as to 

 read as follows : 



" SEC. 11. That any person who shall bring into or 

 cause to be brought into the United States by land, or 

 who shall aid or abet the same, or aid or abet the 

 landing in the United States from any vessel, of any 

 Chinese person not lawfully entitled to enter the 

 United States, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined hi 

 a sum not exceeding $1,000. and imprisoned for a 

 term not exceeding one year." 



Section 12 of said act is hereby amended so as to 

 read as follows : 



" SEC. 12. That no Chinese person shall be permitted 

 to enter the United States by land without producing 

 to the proper officer of customs the certificate in this 

 act required of Chinese persons seeking to land from 

 a vessel. And any Chinese person found unlawfully 

 within the United States shall be caused to be re- 

 moved therefrom to the country from whence he 

 came, and at the cost of the United States, after being 

 brought before some justice, judge, or commissioner 

 of a court of the United States and found to be one 

 not lawfully entitled to be or to remain in the United 

 States ; and in all such cases the person who brought 

 or aided in bringing such person to the United States 

 shall be liable to the Government of the United States 

 for all necessary expenses incurred in such investiga- 

 tion and removal ; and all peace officers of the several 

 States and Territories of the United States are hereby 

 invested with the same authority as a marshal or 

 United States marshal in reference to carrying out the 

 pro visions of this act or the act of which this is amend- 

 atory, as a marshal or deputy-marshal of the United 



