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 878 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 29. 1917. plicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, nurses, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed as H°'d°,f,°°',hj°gj}g{ domestic servants: Provided further, That whenever the President mem or labor em- shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreigp Government °m°'”’°’°|°°°`L to its citizens or subjects to go to any count other t an the United ` States, or to any insular possession of therlzlnited States or to the Canal Zone, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holder to come to the continental territory o the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President shall refuse to permit such citizens or subjects of the country issuing such pasports to enter the continental territory of the United States from such other country or from such insular possession or from the Canal ,,,·{},§‘£§‘:,Q’,_d_”"““‘ Zone: Provided further, That aliens returning after a temporary absence to an unrelinquished United States domicile of seven consecutive years may be admitted in the discretion of the Secretary of Labor, and under such conditions as he may prescribe: Provided ,,g‘f,“§{‘  further, That nothing in the contract—labor or reading-test pro- •¤¤¤¤•¤· visions of this Act shall be construed to prevent, hinder, or restrict any alien exhibitor, or holder of concession or privilege for any fair or exposition authorized by Act of Congress, from bringing into the United States, under contract such otherwise admissible alien mechanics, artisans, agents, or other employees, natives of his country as may be necessary for installing or conducting his exhibit or for preparing for installing or conducting any business authorized or permitte under any concession or privilege which may have been or may be granted by any such fair or exposition in connection therewith, under such ru es and regulations as the Commissioner General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, may _ prescribe both as to the admrwion and return of such persons: Pro- ,°’},°“‘,§•$»°°;_'i°*““¤ vided further, That the Commissioner General of Immigration with the approval of the Secretary of Labor shall issue rules and prescribe conditions, including exaction of such bonds as ma be necessary, to control and regulate the admission and return og otherwise inad- _ missible aliens applying for tem rary admission: Provided further _(,¤,;u·g¤Lg¤*¤¤•¤=»•¤¤-» That uothinig in this Act shall lh; construed to apply to accredited officgipsls of oreign Governments, nor to their suites, families, or . c . gfi§iiZii{x`£ pf; guS1=:c. 4. That the importation into the United States of any alien ‘g};§:;m6xcm°d_ for the purpose of prostitution, or for an other immoral purpose, is hereby forbidden; and whoever shall, chrectly or indirectly, import, or attempt to import into the United States any alien for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, or shall hold or attempt to hold any alien for any such purpose in ursuance of such illegal importation, or shall keep, maintain, controli; support employ, or harbor in any house or other place, for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, any alien, in pur- Pmshmm suance of such illegal importation, shall in every such case be deemed ' guilty of atfglonykand onfconyiction tlhereof shall be punished by im- . . . prrsonmen or a erm o no more t an ten ears and b fin of m°Sd‘°°°”°'°°°"* not more than $5.000. Jurisdiction for the trial and punirslimeni of the felonies hereinbefore set forth shall be in any district to or into which said alien is brought in pursuance of said importation by Punishment for the person or persons accused, or in any district in which a violation attempt; w of any of the foregoing provisions of this section occurs. That any ‘ · alien who shall, after he has been excluded and deported or arrested and deported in pursuance of the provisions of this Act which relate to prostitutes, procurers, or other like immoral persons, attempt thereafter to return to or to enter the United States shall be deemed