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 FIFTY—N1NTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 1134, 1135. 1907. 911 year of age shall not be included, and two children between one and eight years of age shall be counted as one passenger; and any person brought in any such vessel who shall have been, during the voyage, taken from any other vessel wrecked or in distress on the high seas, or have been picked up at sea from any boat, raft, or otherwise, shall not be included in suc comlputation. The master of a vessel coming P¤¤i¤¤¤¤¤rf¤rvi<>- to a port or place in the nited States in violation of either of the l°°°"”' provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and if the number of passengers other than cabin passengers carried or brought in the vessel, or in any compartment, space, op, or deck house thereof, is greater than the number allowed to bt; carried or brought therein, res ctively as hereinbefore prescribed, the said master shall be izinedxfifty dollars for each and every passenger in excess of thphproper number, and may also be imprisoned not exceeding six mon . _This section shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and HQ °‘*°°‘ ·’°““°-'Y *· mne. Sec. 43. That the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, $g{{°Q§ff;,;i°"* being an Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United ' States, except section thirty-four thereof, and the Act of March twenty- V°'·“· P- 1***- second, nineteen hundred and four, being an Act to extend the exemption from head tax to citizens of Newfoundland entering the United States, and all Acts aud dparts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed: Prmri ed, That this Act shall not be construed to  exclusion repeal, alter, or amend existing laws relating to the immigration or em. ’ exclusion of _Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent, nor to ` repeal, alter, or amen section six, chapter four hundred and fifty- V°’·*’·"·°”· three, third session Fifty-eighth Congress, approved February sixt, nineteen hundred and five, or, prior to January first, nineteen hundred _ and nine, section one of the Act approved August second, eighteen hun- v°1‘ *2* "‘"6‘ dred and eighty-two, entitled "An Act to regulate the carriage of passen ers b sea." Sgec.  That this Act shall take effect and. be enforced from and :°°°°°J"m*1°°°‘ aftei·Julv first, nineteen hundred and seven: 1’:·m:ided, lmweuer, That E,°c'Q‘,§{’;,,,,_ section thirty-nine of this Act and the last proviso of section one shall take effect upon the passage ofdtliis Act and section forty-two on Januarv first., nineteen hun ret an nine. ‘ Approved, February 20, 1907. CHAP. 1135.-—An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an_At-t to F¤l>¤‘F§g3l,i‘-*07- construct a bridge across the Missouri River at a point between Kansas (`ity and __ ,,c_. AL;- Sibley, in Jackson County, Missouri/’ approved March nineteenth, nineteen hundred lPublic,No.97,] and four. Be it enacted _ the Senate and House of1Bepresenia¢[vas of t/uz Dhited _ _ Swim uf. A 1114:/Z/Ztt in (,lmgre·srs asseirzbled, That section one of the Act }§ff§“§,§,¥§;;, for entitled "An Act to amend an Act, t0_amend an Act to construct a Hggéigisé Eghwgy bridge across the Missouri River at u_p01Dt between Kansas City and 1.,%  M2 Sibley, in Jackson County, )llS5OUl'l,” approved March nineteenth, °· ·P· nineteen hundred and four, be and the same is hereby so amended as e d as follows: - to *1: Sine, 3. That the construction of the bridgeauthorized to be con- Myne M ¤¤¤¤¢¤¤¤— structed by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and v¤i.24.v.4ss. eivhty-seven, hereinbefore named. und of which this. Act is amanda- un;·;lied§3, v- 142. toiv, shall begin within one year and be completed within three years from March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, and unless these conditions are complied with this Act and the Acts ot which it is · amendatorv shall be null and void: 1)I'0L‘ld€d, That such beginning of §;gg;¢:;uctum_ construction within said period of one year shall relate to the super-