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charitable institutions (public and private) of the several States and Territories, the District of Columbia, and other territory of the United States, and to inform the officers of such institutions of the provisions of law in relation to the deportation of aliens who have become public charges. He may, with the approval of the Attorney General, whenever in his judgment such action may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act, detail immigration officers for service in foreign countries; and, upon his request, approved by the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the United States Public Health Service for the performance of duties in foreign countries in connection with the enforcement of this Act (8 U. S. C. 101-02). The duties of immigration and naturalization officials in charge of districts, ports, or stations shall be of an administrative character, to be prescribed in detail by regulations prepared under the direction or with the approval of the Attorney General (8 U. S. C. 108): Provided, That no person, company, or transportation line engaged in carrying alien passengers for hire from Canada or Mexico to the United States, whether by land or water, shall be allowed to land any such passengers in the United States without providing suitable and approved landing stations, conveniently located, at the point or points of entry. The Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization is hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe the conditions, not inconsistent with law, under which the above-mentioned landing stations shall be deemed suitable within the meaning of this section. Any person, company, or transportation line landing an alien passenger in the United States without compliance with the requirement herein set forth shall be deemed to have violated section eight of this Act, and upon conviction shall be subject to the penalty therein prescribed (8 U. S. C. 160): Provided further, That for the purpose of making effective the provisions of this section relating to the protection of aliens from fraud and loss, and also the provisions of section thirty of this Act, relating to the distribution of aliens, the Attorney General shall establish and maintain immigrant stations at such interior places as may be necessary, and, in the discretion of the said Attorney General, aliens in transit from ports of landing to such interior stations shall be accompanied by immigrant inspectors (8 U. S. C. 161): Provided further, That in prescribing rules and making contracts for the entry and inspection of aliens applying for admission from or through foreign contiguous territory, due care shall be exercised to avoid any discriminatory action in favor of foreign transportation companies transporting to such territory aliens destined to the United States, and all such transportation companies shall be required, as a condition precedent to the inspection or examination under such rules and contracts at the ports of such contiguous territory of aliens brought thereto by them, to submit to and comply with all the requirements of this Act which would apply were they bringing such aliens directly to seaports of the United States, and,

47 For additional provisions covering authority to prescribe rules and regulations for the entry and inspection of aliens into the United States, see Act of May 26, 1924, sec. 17 (43 Stat. 163-164; 8 U. S. C. 217), p. 55, and sec. 24 (43 Stat. 166; 8 U. S. C. 222), p. 58, and Act of June 28, 1940, sec. 37 (a) (54 Stat. 675; 8 U. S. C. 458), p.

from and after the taking effect of this Act, no alien applying for admission from foreign contiguous territory shall be permitted to enter the United States unless upon proving that he was brought to such territory by a transportation company which had submitted to and complied with all the requirements of this Act or that he entered, or has resided in, such territory more than two years prior to the date of his application for admission to the United States (8 U. S. C. 162). (39 Stat. 892-893; 50 Stat. 164; 8 U. S. C. 101-102, 108, 160-162.)

IMMIGRATION OFFICERS; APPOINTMENT; COMPENSATION

SEC. 24. That immigrant inspectors and other immigration and naturalization officers, clerks, and employees shall hereafter be appointed and their compensation fixed and raised or decreased from time to time by the Attorney General, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, and in accordance with the provisions of the civil-service Act of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three: Provided, That said Attorney General, in the enforcement of that portion of this Act which excludes contract laborers and induced and assisted immigrants, may employ, for such purposes and for detail upon additional service under this Act when not so engaged, without reference to the provisions of the said civil-service Act, or to the various Acts relative to the compilation of the Official Register, such persons as he may deem advisable and from time to time fix, raise, or decrease their compensation. He may draw annually from the appropriation for the enforcement of this Act $200,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended for the salaries and expenses of persons so employed and for expenses incident to such employment; and the accounting officers of the General Accounting Office shall pass to the credit of the proper disbursing officer expenditures from said sum without itemized account whenever the Attorney General certifies that an itemized account would not be for the best interests of the Government :50

Immigrant inspectors shall be divided into five classes as follows: Grade 1, salary $2,100; grade 2, salary $2,300; grade 3, salary $2,500; grade 4, salary $2,700; grade 5, salary $3,000; and, hereafter, inspectors shall be promoted successively to grades 2 and 3 at the beginning of the next quarter following one year's satisfactory service (determined by a standard of efficiency which is to be defined by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, with the approval of the Attorney General) in the next lower grade; and to grades 4 and 5 for meritorious service after no less

"Act of May 2, 1932 (47 Stat. 145; 8 U. S. C. 109), as amended by Act of June 26, 1940 (54 Stat. 574; 8 U. S. C. 109-109a). Prior thereto, sec. 24, Act of February 5, 1917 (89 Stat. 893), read in part as follows: "for the enforcement of the Act $100,000,

49 Act of June 10, 1921 (42 Stat. 24; 8 U. S. C. 109). Prior thereto, sec. 24, Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 893), read in part as follows: "and the accounting officers of the Treasury

Reorganization Act of April 3, 1939 (53 Stat. 561; 5 U. S. C. 133-133r), Plan III (5 F. R. 2108, effective June 30, 1940). Prior thereto, sec. 24, Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 893), read in part as follows: "Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter the mode of appointing commissioners of immigration and naturalization at the several ports of the United States as provided by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or the official status of such commissioners heretofore appointed."

than one year's service in grades 3 and 4, respectively: Provided further, That when officers, inspectors, or other employees of the Immigration and Naturalization Service are ordered to perform duty in a foreign country, or transferred from one station to another, in the United States or in a foreign country, they shall be allowed their traveling expenses in accordance with such regulations as the Attorney General may deem advisable, and they may also be allowed, within the discretion and under written orders of the Attorney General, the expenses incurred for the transfer of their wives and dependent minor children; their household effects and other personal property, including the expenses for packing, crating, freight, and drayage thereof in accordance with the Act of October 10, 1940 (54 Stat. 1105; 5 U. S. C., sec. 73c-1.) The expense of transporting the remains of such officers, inspectors, or other employees who die while in, or in transit to, a foreign country in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment and preparation for shipment at their posts of duty or at home, are hereby authorized to be paid on the written order of the Attorney General: 52 Provided further, That the appropriation of such sum as may be necessary for the enforcement of this Act is hereby authorized.5 (39 Stat. 893; 42 Stat. 24; 45 Stat. 954-955; 46 Stat. 1205; 47 Stat. 145; 54 Stat. 574; 8 U. S. C. 109-109a; 56 Stat. 373; 8 U. S. C. 109.)

JURISDICTION OF DISTRICT COURTS; DUTIES OF DISTRICT ATTORNEYS; SETTLEMENT OR DISCONTINUANCE OF SUITS

SEC. 25. That the district courts of the United States are hereby invested with full jurisdiction of all causes, civil and criminal, arising under any of the provisions of this Act. That it shall be the duty of the United States district attorney of the proper district to prosecute every such suit when brought by the United States under this Act. Such prosecutions or suits may be instituted at any place in the United States at which the violation may occur or at which the person charged with such violation may be found. That no suit or proceeding for a violation of the provisions of this Act shall be settled, compromised, or discontinued without the consent of the court in which it is pending, entered of record, with the reasons therefor. (39 Stat. 893-894; 8 U. S. C. 164.) 54

61 Act of June 20, 1942 (54 Stat. 1105; 5 U. S. C. sec. 78c-1). Prior thereto promotions had been limited to "50 per centum of the force" and household effects, etc. to "Ave thousand pounds."

Act of February 21, 1931 (46 Stat. 1205; 8 U. S. C. 109). Prior thereto, the fourth proviso of sec. 24, Act of February 5, 1917 (45 Stat. 954), read in part as follows: That when inspectors or other employees of the Immigration Service are ordered to perform duty in a foreign country, or transferred from one station to another, in a foreign country, they shall be allowed their traveling expenses in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may deem advisable, and they may be allowed, within the discretion and under written orders of the Secretary of Labor, the expenses incurred for the transfer of their wives and dependent minor children; their household effects and other personal property, not exceeding in all five thousand pounds, including the expenses for packing, crating, freight, and drayage thereof:

Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 954; 8 U. s. C. 109a), amended sec. 24, Act of February 5, 1917 (339 Stat. 893 8 U. S. C. 109), by adding the second paragraph of the section.

For other provisions relating to jurisdiction of prosecutions see sec. 5, Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 826; 18 U. S. C. 401), p. 71.

DISPOSAL OF PRIVILEGES AT IMMIGRANT STATIONS; PROHIBITION ON

SALE OF LIQUORS

SEO. 26. That all exclusive privileges of exchanging money, transporting passengers or baggage, or keeping eating houses, and all other like privileges in connection with any United States immigrant station, shall be disposed of to the lowest responsible and capable bidder, after public competition, notice of such competitive bidding having been made in two newspapers of general circulation for a period of two weeks, subject to such conditions and limitations as the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, under the direction or with the approval of the Attorney General, may prescribe, and all receipts accruing from the disposal of privileges shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States. No such contract shall be awarded to an alien. No intoxicating liquors shall be sold at any such immigration station. (39 Stat. 894; 8 U. S. C. 115.)

LOCAL JURISDICTION OVER IMMIGRANT STATIONS

SEO. 27. That for the preservation of the peace and in order that arrests may be made for crimes under the laws of the States and Territories of the United States where the various immigrant stations are located, the officers in charge of such stations, as occasion may require, shall admit therein the proper State and municipal officers charged with the enforcement of such laws, and for the purpose of this section the jurisdiction of such officers and of the local courts shall extend over such stations. (39 Stat. 894; 8 U. S. C. 116.)

AIDING OR ASSISTING CERTAIN ALIENS TO ENTER UNITED STATES; PENALTY

SEC. 28. That any person who knowingly aids or assists any anarchist or any person who believes in or advocates the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or who disbelieves in or is opposed to organized government, or all forms of law, or who advocates the assassination of public officials, or who is a member of or affiliated with any organization entertaining or teaching disbelief in or opposition to organized government, or who advocates or teaches the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character, to enter the United States, or who connives or conspires with any person or persons to allow, procure, or permit any such anarchist or person aforesaid to enter therein, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.55

Any person who knowingly aids or assists any alien who advocates or teaches the unlawful destruction of property to enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on

For additional provisions relative to anarchists and similar classes, see Act of Feb. 5, 1917 (sec. 3, n. 3, and sec. 19, p. 22). Act of Oct. 16, 1918, p. 77, Act of May 10, 1920, p. 80, and Title I, Act of June 28, 1940, p. 109.

conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (39 Stat. 894; 8 U. S. C. 163.)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR REGULATION OF IMMIGRATION OF ALIENS; SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS; EXAMINATION OF ALIENS ABROAD; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

SEO. 29. That the President of the United States is authorized, in the name of the Government of the United States, to call, in his discretion, an international conference, to assemble at such point as may be agreed upon, or to send special commissioners to any foreign country, for the purpose of regulating by international agreement, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, the immigration of aliens to the United States; of providing for the mental, moral, and physical examination of such aliens by American consuls or other officers of the United States Government at the ports of embarkation, or elsewhere; of securing the assistance of foreign Governments in their own territories to prevent the evasion of the laws of the United States governing immigration to the United States; of entering into such international agreements as may be proper to prevent the immigration of aliens who, under the laws of the United States, are or may be excluded from entering the United States, and of regulating any matters pertaining to such immigration. (39 Stat. 894-895; 8 U. Š. C. 177.)

DIVISION OF INFORMATION IN THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; DISTRIBUTION OF ALIENS; STATE AGENTS

SEC. 30. That there shall be maintained a division of information in the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and the Attorney General shall provide such clerical and other assistance as may be necessary. It shall be the duty of said division to promote a beneficial distribution of aliens admitted into the United States among the several States and Territories desiring immigration. Correspondence shall be had with the proper officials of the States and Territories, and said division shall gather from all available sources useful information regarding the resources, products, and physical characteristics of each State and Territory, and shall publish such information in different languages and distribute the publications among all admitted aliens at the immigrant stations of the United States and to such other persons as may desire the same. When any State or Territory appoints and maintains an agent or agents to represent it at any of the immigrant stations of the United States, such agents shall, under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, subject to the approval of the Attorney General, have access to aliens who have been admitted to the United States for the purpose of presenting, either orally or in writing, the special inducements offered by such State or Territory to aliens to settle therein. While on duty at any immigrant station such agents shall be subject to all the regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, who, with the approval of the Attorney General, may, for violation of any such regulations, deny to the agent guilty of such violation any of the privileges herein granted. (39 Stat. 895; 8 U. S. C. 105.)

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