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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 1134. 1907. 899 persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity! at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public c_ arge; professional beggars; persons aiilicted with tuberculosis or with avloathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not Defective P¤¤¤¤¤· comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a ~nature whic may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy, anarc ists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials; prostitutes, or women or girls coming into the United States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women or girls for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral pur se; persons hereinafter called contract laborers, °°¤¤‘¤¤*l¤b°*°¤- who have been ingiiced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in this country of any -kind, skilled or unskilled; `those who have been, within one year from the date of application for admission to the United States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described; any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such (person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes, an that said ticket or passage was not paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipa ity, or foreign government, either directly or indirectly; all children under — sixteen years of age, unaccompanied b one or both of their parents, at the discretion of the Secretary of Gbmmerce and Labor or under such regulations as he may from time to time prescribe: 15-ovided, §‘{,'f,‘,'§‘{{;,,,,_ That nothing in this Act Shall exclude, if otherwise admissible, persons **0*** wl °¤¢¤¤¢·~ convicted of an offense purely political, not involving moral turpitude:, 1*;-ended further, That the provisions of this section relating to_the M*¤¤¤*¤¤‘¤¤¤**· payments for tickets or passage by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government siall not apply to the tickets or ssage of aliens in imme iate and continuous transit through the Uniteda States to foreign contiguous territory: And I//'Di(l€(i]5{I'— Skilled 1¤b<>r» they-, That skilled labor may be imported if labor of like kind unemployed can not be found in this country: And provided f}niMw·, I hat ,,f',Q"°““l°"’““‘l“°"` the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants. _ _ Sno; 3. That the importation into the United States of any alien foimprggtiylsiioyorgtgn woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other im- mbiicaén." moral purpose, is hereby forbidden; and whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or attempt to import, into the United States, any alien woman or girl for the purpose ot prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, or whoever shall 'hold_or attempt to hold any alien woman or girl for any such purpose in pursuance of such illegal importation, or whoever Shall kB8p, maintain, control, support, or harbor in any house or other place, for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, any alien woman or girl, within three years after she shall have entered the United States, shall, in every