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countries refusing to comply with the investigation or research herein stated. The same 

 rule shall be applied to all individuals who after investigation, prove to be liable to hered- 

 itary transmission of any undesirable quality. 



Art. 12. All Nations of the American Continent shall enact and apply immigration 

 laws forbidding the entrance of those somatically non-res ponsibles, or those having bad 

 germinal conditions, or coming from nations refusing either to accept this code or that do 

 not comply with its provisions. 



SECTION IV. RACES 



Art. 13. In every nation signatory to this Code, Individuals of a determined race 

 are entitled to establish all pacific and legal social measures that may be deemed necessary 

 to maintain the purity of their race. 



Art. 14. Every nation shall possess the right to select those new races that may enter 

 and form a part of its population." 



— From "Transactions of the First Pan American Conference on Eugenics and 

 Homiculture of the American Republics." 



