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326 SIXTY·SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 148, 149. 1921. domiciled in the United States, who attached themselves to the punitive military expedition under the command of General Pershing which entered Mexico in 1916, and who were brought into the United States as refugees by said expedition when it returned from Mexico.

SEC. 2. That the registration hereby provided shall correspond as nearly as circumstances permit to the registration of domiciled Chinese prescribed by section 6 of the Act approved May 5, 1892 (Twenty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 25), as amended by section 1 of the Act approved November 3, 1893 (Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 7), and the certificates of registration issued to such Chinese shall constitute evidence of their right to be and remain within the United States: Provided, however, That before being registered here-under the said Chinese shall be given the examination prescribed by the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 874), with the exception of the reading test prescribed by section 3 thereof, and such of them as may be found inadmissible under said Act shall not be registered hereunder, but shall be deported by the Secretary of Labor in the manner prescribed by section i 19 of said Immigration Act: Provided, further, That if any of the said Chinese shall, at any time after being registered pursuant to this resolution, become members of any of the classes for the expulsion of which provision is made in section 19 of the said Immigration Act, they shall be taken into custody and deported upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the terms of said section.

SEC. 3. That the certificate of registration herein provided shall be issued to the said Chinese by the Commissioner 'General without charge; and it shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to collect any fee, gift, or remuneration for services rendered, or alleged to have been rendered, said Chinese in the procurement of such certificate or, directly or indirectly, to collect from the said Chinese any fee, gift, or remuneration for services performed in placing before Congress evidence or information on which the passage of this resolution is based; and any person who shall violate either of these provisions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Approved, November 23, 1921.

CHAP. 149.—Joint Resolution For the appointment of one member of the Board of TT>T Managers of the National Home for Disabl Volunteer Soldiers. Nmcm, Ham for Resolved by the Senate and House q£Reg'*zi1ese11tatives of the United poifgprgd Volunteer States og America in Congress assegnb d, at Roy L. Marston, of $,§§ ,;_ Mmm, ,,,,_ Maine, e, and he Evlléfébg, appomted a member of the Board of r¤·¤¢¤d¤M¤¤¤s¤=· Man ers of the National cme for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers of the Uginited States, to fill the unexpired term of Menander Dennett, deceased. Approved, November 23, 1921.