The foregoing table shows that of the 9,555,673 immigrants, 2,506,713, or more than one-fourth, were without occupation. The number reported "without occupation" includes women and children. The next table shows for those reporting an occupation the per cent with each specified occupation. Immigrants without occupation, shown in the previous table, are eliminated from this percentage table. TABLE 13.-Per cent of immigrants admitted to the United States reporting each specified occupation, fiscal years 1899 to 1910, inclusive, by race or people.

[Compiled from reports of the United States Commissioner-General of Immigration.]

From this table it is seen that of the 7,048,953 immigrants admitted during the twelve years from 1899 to 1910 and reporting an occupation, 35.9 per cent were laborers, 23.4 per cent were farm laborers, 20.2 per cent were in skilled occupations, 1.4 per cent were in professional occupations, and 19.1 per cent were in "other" occupations. The races with more than one-half of the immigrants reported as laborers are the following:

Per cent

laborers.

62.0

53.6

Of the 7,048,953 immigrants reporting an occupation, 59.3 per cent were either laborers or farm laborers. Among a number of races more than three-fourths of the immigrants were reported either as laborers or as farm laborers. These races are the following:

Slightly more than one-fifth (20.2 per cent) of the total number of immigrants were reported as in skilled occupations. The races with more than 40 per cent of the immigrants reported in skilled occupations are the following:

FINANCIAL CONDITION OF IMMIGRANTS, 1899 to 1910.

Data are not available to show the amount of money or the value of property brought into the United States by immigrants. The immigration law of 1893 provided that steamship lists or manifests should state whether each alien possessed $30, and if less, how much. The law of 1903 retained this provision but changed the amount to $50, and the latter provision is contained in the immigration act of 1907, which is the present law. The law does not require that aliens shall have a specified amount of money as a requisite to admission into the United States, but the financial resources of an immigrant frequently have an important bearing on his admissibility under the terms of section 2 of the act of 1907 which provide for the exclusion of persons likely to become a public charge.

Under the Canadian immigration law immigrants are required to possess a certain amount of money, which amount varies according to the season of the year, and a somewhat similar practice has recently been inaugurated by the commissioner of immigration at the port of New York, but, as above stated, no specific financial requirement of this nature has been written into the United States law.

Previous to 1899 data relative to the financial condition of immigrants, in common with all immigration statistics, were recorded by the country of birth or origin, but for 1899 and the years following they are recorded by race or people. The table next presented indicates the total amount of money shown by immigrants of each race or people during the fiscal years 1899 to 1910, inclusive, and the proportion showing $30 or over from 1899 to 1903, and $50 or over from 1904 to 1910.

a See Vol. II, p. 735. b See Vol. II, p. 732. c See Vol. II, p. 622.

TABLE 14.-Financial condition of immigrant aliens admitted to the United States during the fiscal years 1899 to 1910, inclusive, by race or people.

[Compiled from reports of the United States Commissioner-General of Immigration.]

It should be remembered that the above data do not represent the actual amount of money possessed by immigrants, but only the amount shown to immigrant inspectors at ports of arrival. It seems. probable, however, that the figures fairly represent the amount possessed in most cases where the money shown is less than the amount specified in the immigration law. On this basis only 17.6 per cent of all immigrants showing money in 1899-1903 had $30 or more, and only 13.9 in 1904-1910 had $50 or more. The total amount of money shown by all immigrants during the twelve years considered was $206,145,738, or $21.57 per capita, while it is estimated that $275,000,000 was sent out of the country by immigrants in the year 1907 alone."

a See Vol. II, p. 427.

IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE UNITED STATES PREVIOUSLY, 1899 to 1910.

There is a somewhat prevalent belief that the present tide of immigration to the United States is largely composed of persons who have been in the United States before and whose coming and going is regulated by the demand for laborers in this country. To a considerable degree this is true of the movement from Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and the West Indies, but immigration statistics show that of the 9,555,673 immigrants admitted to the United States during the twelve fiscal years ending June 30, 1910, all but 1,189,283, or 12.4 per cent of the whole, entered the country for the first time. As stated elsewhere, these figures indicate that a large proportion of the aliens who leave the United States do so permanently and that the movement to this country is very largely a new one. The number of immigrants of each race or people admitted to the country during the twelve years mentioned and the number and per cent who had been in the country previously are shown in the following table:

TABLE 15.-Number and per cent of immigrants admitted to the United States, 1899 to 1910, inclusive, who had been in the United States previously, by race or people.a [Compiled from reports of the United States Commissioner-General of Immigration and records of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.]

DESTINATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1899 TO 1910. Immigrants admitted into the United States and the insular possessions during the twelve fiscal years ending June 30, 1910, reported their final destination as follows:

The States receiving 1 per cent or more of the immigrants admitted during the period are shown in the following table:

TABLE 16.-Destination reported by immigrants admitted to the United States during the fiscal years 1899 to 1910, inclusive.

The destinations of immigrants admitted during the twelve years under consideration, by States, Territories, and the insular possessions, are shown in the table next presented.

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