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 we F lFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Ch. 1134. 1907 . F°b*'¤{¤'>"€0·l9°7- CHAP. 1134.—A11 Act To regulate the immigration of aliens into the United __£E;‘E.__, States. [Pnblic,N0.96.] Be it enacted by the Senate and ]I0u.s·e of Representatives of the United g·;_¤;j¤;¤;*<g; Bw_ States of America in Cimgress assembled, That there shall be levied, ofaliensiccreased. l collected, and paid a tax of four dollars for every alien entering the P“*"“°“‘· United States. The said tax shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port or customs district to which said alien shall come, or, if there be no collector at such port or district, then to the collector nearest thereto, by the master, agent, owner, or consignee of the ‘ vessel, transportation line, or other conveyance or vehicle bringing mfjageaséggie "*¤¤· such alien to the United States. The money thus collected, together g ·with all fines and rentals collected under the laws regulating the III1H11- gration of aliens into the United States, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and shall constitute a permanent appropria- Useo:. tion to be called the "immigrant fund," to_be used under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to defray the expense of regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States under said laws, including the contract labor laws, the cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digest thereof, for the use of the Commissioner—General of Immigration, and the salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said Lien on vesselsenc., laws. The tax imposed by this section shall be a lien upon the vessel, M mx` or other vehicle of carriage or transportation bringing such aliens to the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States ` against the owner or owners of such vessel, or other vehicle, and the payment of such tax may be enforced by any legal or equitable xmas exempted. remedy. That the said tax shall not be levied upon aliens who shall enter the United States after an uninterrupted residence of at least' one year, immediately preceding such entrance, in the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Cuba, or the Republic of ' Mexico, nor upon otherwise admissible residents of any possession of the United States, nor upon aliens in transit through the United States, nor upon aliens who have been lawfully admitted to the United States and who later shall go in transit from one part of the United States to 1>»m·mi. _ another through foreign contiguous territory: 1 ’r01v5ded, That the Com- ,U§,'},{'"°"°s by m`!` missioner-General of Immigration, under the direction or with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 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 tax imposed by this section upon any or all aliens seeking admission from foreign conixmnqsmud, tiguous territory: Prm.•to'ed jizrt/ter, That if in any iiscal year the amount of money collected under the provisions of this section shall exceed two million five hundred thousand dollars, the excess above that amount shall not be added to the ‘“im1nigrant fund:” I’mvidecZ in-nvtis from ai. jimtber, That the provisions of this section shall not ap ly to aliens “`""”°°”°”’°'”‘ arriving) in Guam, Porto Rico, or Hawaii; but if any sucii alien, not having ecome a citizen of the United States, shall later arrive at any port or place of the United States on the North American Continent ,k§j;;lg;*;;:{ Tg tgggj the provisions of this section shall apply: PI‘6“?}t/[tif! furt/ter, That .·.».:.1iia}.m,q whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any ’”“" "‘ 13**0 foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President may refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental territory of the United States from such other country or from such insular possessions or from the Canal Zone. mQS*$fj;;§;;{;{;Q**d* Sec. 2. That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from ' admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble—minded