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 8 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ons. 14, 15. 1893. provisions of said section six of said act of May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety»two, as originally enacted, shall hereafter be instituted, and that all proceedings for said violation now pending are hereby disconrmpa. tinued": Provided, That no Chinese person heretofore convicted in any ,,}'f,°,f*§‘2°(‘}{,°,'f,,,§',°°,,°*,fZ court of the States or Territories or of the United States of a felony vicwd <>f f¤¤¤¤¥· shall be permitted to register under the provisions of this act; but all such persons who are now subject to deportation for failure or refusal · to comply with the act to which this is an amendment shall be deported from the United States as in said act and in this act provided, upon ~ any appropriate proceedings now pending or which may be hereafter instituted. · ··1.¤w¤¤¤··•m1¤¤i. Sec. 2. The words· “1aborer" or “laborers, " wherever used in this act, or in the act to which this is an amendment, shall be construed to · mean both skilled and unskilled manual laborers, including Chinese V employed in mining, fishing, huckstering, peddling, laundrymen, or those engaged in taking, drying, or otherwise preserving shell or other fish for home consumption or exportation. · ··Mmh¤¤¤" d¤· The term “merchant,” as employed herein and in the acts of which ‘ °’°"· this is amendatory, shall have the following meaning and none other: A merchant. is a person engaged in buying and selling merchandise, at a fixed place of business, which business is conducted in his name, and who during the time he claims to be engaged as a merchant, does not engage in the performance of any manual labor, except such as is necessary in the conduct of hisbusiness as such merchant. Proof ss eq mv- Where an application is made by a.Chinaman for entrance into the f,‘},Q'"'* “°°]“"*‘ ‘° United States on the ground that he was formerly engaged in this - country as a merchant, he shall establish by the testimony of two credible witnesses other than Chinese the fact that he conducted such business as hereinbefore defined for at least one year before his departure from the United States, and that during such year he was not engaged in the performance of any manual labor, except such as was necessary in the conduct of his business as such merchant, and in default of such proof shall be refused landing. nspqi-umm. Such order of deportation sha.ll be executed by the United States Marshal of the district within which such order is made, and he shall execute the same with all convenient dispatch; and pending the execution of such order such Chinese person shall remain in the custody of the United States Marshal, and shall not be admitted to bail. phowgzfb ..; c,,,. The certicate herein provided for shall contain the photograph of ¤¤¤·¢¤ m- the applicant, together with his name local residence and occupation, and a copy of such certiiicate, with a duplicate of such photograph · attached, shall be filed in the office of the United States Collector of Ingernal Revenue of the district in which such Chiuainau makes applica ion. Duplicates. Such photographs in duplicate shall be furnished by each applicant in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, November 3, 1893. . November 3_ ,8,:, he °$,;)€:  In aid of the World’s Fair Prize Wiinners’ Exposition to be rmmsis. Whereas, there willbeheld in the cit of New York S . York, from and after November twentyfourth, eightegdc lfdnmzd and ninety-three, to January nfteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety- four, an exposition, to be known as the W0rld’s Fair Prize Winners’ Exposition, in which foreign nations and foreign exhibitors have been invited and have agreed to participate: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R esentatires o the United wg•;§g;¤E1;;¤;·  States of America, in Congress assembled, Thgltrall articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at