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 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 29. 1917. 877 for curi_osity or pleasure, nor to their legali wives or their children under sixteen years of age who shall accompany them or who subsequently may apply for admission to the United States, but such t,5,°.?§{‘° °° b° '“"i“` persons or their legal wives or foreign-born children who fail to maintain in the United States a status or occupation placing them within the excepted classes shall be deemed to be in the United States contrary to law, gm; shgll be subject to deportation as provided in P°"·P·88°- section nineteeno t is ct. That after three months from the passage of this Act, in addition si.;i‘,§l°m‘§'}§§l,°x$;l,`§Q to the aliens who are by law now excluded from admission into the “‘°”“‘$· United States, the following persons shall also be excluded from admission thereto,_to wit: _ _ _ All aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, m“°'°’°$· who can not read the English language, or some other language or P,,,,,,_,,,_ dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish: Provided, That any ad-, -*\.,<!¤¤1¤Si<>¤ of missible alien, or any alien heretofore or hereafter legally admitted, ' or any citizen of the United States, may bring in or send for his father or grandfather over fifty-five years o _ age, his wife, his mother, his grandmother, or his unmarried or widowed daughter, if otherwise admissible, whether such relative can read or not; and 1;,,,,,,,,, mh such relative shall be permitted to enter._ That for the purpose of ascertaining whether aliens can read the immigrant inspectors shall be furnished with slips of uniform size, prepared under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, each contaming not less than thirty nor more than forty words in ordinary use, printed in plainly_leg1ble type in some one of the various languages or dialects of immigrants. Each alien may designate the particular language or dialect in which he desires the examination to _ e made, and shall be requ1red to read pmm, ,,,,,m,,,_ the words printed on the slip in such language or dialect. That the following classes of persons shall l'>€ €K€mPt from the °P"l`*m?u of R¤1ici¤¤sr¤1¤e¤¤¤- the illiteracy test, to wit:  aliens who shall prove to the satisfaction of the proper immigration officer or to_ the Secretary of Labor that they are seeking admission to the United States to avoid reli .0us persecution in the country of their last permanent residence, wilether such persecution be evidenced by overt acts or by laws or governmental regulations that discriminateagainst the alien or the Rmming mm mp race to which he belonglonbecause of his religious faith; all aliens who dum. have been lawfully a itted to the United States and who have resided therein continuously for five years, and who return to the United States within six months from the date of their departure _`,k,,,m,~,,,,_ therefrom; all aliens in transit through the_Un1ted States; all 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 another rcuueiiaaeaam. through foreign contiguous territory: frorzded, That nothing in this Act shall exclude, if otherwise admissible, persons com icte, or who admit the commission, or_ who teach or advocate the commis-  ,,1,,,,,, in sion, of an offense purely_ political: Proruled further, That the pro- · visions of this Act, relating to the payments for tiokets or passage by any corporation, association, society, mumcipa ity, or 1.3;:ig: Government shall not apply to the tickets or passage (o értiit t immediate and continuous trans1t_through the {nite u da lesb o Pgéggiggsplzrigtmgg foreign contiguous territory: Provuled farther, That ski_ e a or, · ‘ ' be 1m orted if labor of like kind unemif otherwise admissible, may _ p, f th loyed can not be found in this country, and the question o e iiecessity of importing such skilled labor in any particular instance mav be determined by the Secretary of _Labor upon tihe gngplicatiog of any person interested, such application to be ma e fe Itgiosuoo Dmrmmmon 0, importation, and such determination by_the Secretary o th fr ts necesny. be reached after a full hearing and an investigation En; how as . mgggsrm, and ao of the case: Provided further, That the provisions o is P