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 264 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 128. 1910. not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examimng S}1§GOI1•8·S being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physrc defect of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a_l1ving ; <>ri¤i¤¤!¤· v¤¤vs¤- rsons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a m°°’°°"°m‘°°°’°t°` iiilony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turprtude; polygamists, or rsons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy; anarcliigts, or persons who beheve 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 pubc,,*Qg',°;'j,Q‘“‘°’· Pm lic officials; prostitutes, or women_ or girls coming mto the United ' States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other iminoral purpose; persons who are supported by or receive m whole or m part the proceeds of prostitution; persons who procure or attempt to ring m prostitutes or women or girls for the purpose of prost1tution or for comm ummm, any other immoral purpose; persons hereinafter called contract °°°‘ laborers who have been induced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment or in consequence of ments, oral, written or rinted, egpressed or rmphed, to perform · la§r in this country of any find, skill or unskilled; those w o have been, within one year from the date of application for admission to ·*¤‘**¤*°m*¢'“'** the United States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described; any person whose tieket 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 and that said ticket or passage was not paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government, either directly children ¤¤•¤¢<>¤¤· or indirectly; all children under sixteen dyears of age unaccompanied ’°°*°°‘ by one or both of their parents, at the iscretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor or under such regulations as he may from time §'x*ge‘?**{gm to time prescribe: Provided, That not ing in this Act shall exclude, P¤nriP¤»1¤é¤¤qe¤. if otherwise admissible, apersons convicted of an offense urely politi- ‘°'°""" °""”"‘ cal, not involving mor turpitude: Provided further, 'lllrat the provisions of this section relating to the payments for tickets or passage by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government shall not apply to the tickets or lpass?e of aliens in immediate and continuous transit throplgh the nite States to for- S¤¤¢<¤¤¤¤<>¤·¤· eign contiguous territory: And provid further That skilled labor may be imported if labor of like kind unemployed can not be found in mjP;;>j$_¤*¤¤¤1¤ ¤¤° this country: And provided further, That the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomina— tion, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants." $*g;¢i¢¤$¢¤·p¤¤¤é09 Sec. 2. That section three of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate amended, ' the immigration of aliens mto the United States," approved February twecptieehilnineteen hundred and seven, is hereby amended so as to rea as o ows: ,°{¤;)¤rg;grt;;:u0I;1;gL¤_{ "Ssc. 3. That the importation into the United_States of any alien rmtiaaeu. for the urpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose is §j_’,,‘}‘f’,'§?,{l,‘$$"°· hereby forbidden; and_whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or attempt to import, into the United States, any alien for the purpose of rostitutron or for any other immoral purpose, or whoever shall holil or attemlpt to hold any alien for any such purpose in pursuance of such i egal importation, or whoever shall keep, main- _ tam, control, support, employ, or harbor in any house or other place, for the purpose of prostitutron or for any other immoral purpose, p,,,,,,h,,m,,_ in pursuance of suc illelgal 1mportation, an alien, shall, in everv suc case be deemed gu ty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof