PREVENTION IN TIME OF WAR OF DEPARTURE FROM OR ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES CONTRARY TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY [Act of June 21, 1941 (55 Stat, 252), amending the Act of May 22, 1918 (22 U. 8. C. 228-226), incorporated at p. 75.]

IMMIGRANT INSPECTORS, GRADES, SALARIES, TRAVELING EXPENSES, TRANSFER OF FAMILIES, HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS, ETC. [Act of June 20, 1942 (56 Stat. 378; 8 U. S. C. 109), amending sec. 24, Act of February 5, 1917, as amended (8 U. S. C. 109), incorporated at p. 30.]

DEPORTATION WITHIN CERTAIN TIME LIMITS OF ALIENS ENTERING OR FOUND IN THE UNITED STATES IN VIOLATION OF LAW; FINALITY OF DECISION; DISCRETION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

[Act of December 8, 1942 (56 Stat. 1044; 8 U. S. C. 155), amending sec. 19 (c), Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 889; 8 U. S. C. 155), incorporated at p. 24.]'

PENALTY FOR UNLAWFUL REPRODUCTION OF RECEIPT CARDS [Act of October 13, 1941 (55 Stat. 736; 8 U. S. C. 455), amending sec. 36, Act of June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 675; 8 U. S. C. 457), incorporated at p. 115.]

TO AUTHORIZE THE ADMISSION TO THE UNITED STATES OF CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL WORKERS BORN IN NORTH, CENTRAL, AND SOUTH AMERICA

Joint Resolution approved April 29, 1948

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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $26,100,000, to remain available until December 31, 1943, to be expended by the Administrator of Food Production and Distribution (hereinafter referred to as the "Administrator"), appointed pursuant to Executive Order Numbered 9322, dated March 26, 1943, for assisting in providing an adequate supply of workers for the production and harvesting of agricultural commodities essential to the prosecution of the war, as follows.

SEO. 5.

(c) For the purpose of this joint resolution

(1) the term "State" includes Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico:

(2) the term "worker" includes nationals of the United States and aliens;

(3) the term "agricultural labor" includes any services or activities included within the provisions of section 3 (f) of the Fair Labor Standard Act of 1938 or section 1426 (h) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Amended by Joint Resolution 209, Dec. 23, 1943 (57 Stat. 600), p. 127; extended by Joint Resolution of Feb. 14, 1944 (Pub. Law 229), p. 127.

(g) In order to facilitate the employment by agricultural employers in the United States of native-born residents of North America, South America, and Central America, and the islands adjacent thereto, desiring to perform agricultural labor in the United States, during continuation of hostilities in the present war, any such resident desiring to enter the United States for that purpose shall be exempt from the payment of head tax required by section 2 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, and from other admission charges, and shall be exempt from those excluding provisions of section 3 of such Act which relate to contract laborers, the requirements of literacy, and the payment of passage by corporations, foreign government, or others; and any such resident shall be admitted to perform agricultural labor in the United States for such time and under such conditions (but not including the exaction of bond to insure ultimate departure from the United States) as may be required by regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization with the approval of the Attorney General; and in the event such regulations require documentary evidence of the country of birth of any such resident which he is unable to furnish, such requirement may be waived by the admitting officer of the United States at the point where such resident seeks entry into the United States if such official has other proof satisfactory to him that such resident is a native of the country claimed as his birthplace. Each such resident shall be provided with an identification card (with his photograph and fingerprints) to be prescribed under such regulations which shall be in lieu of all other documentary requirements, including the registration at time of entry or after entry required by the Alien Registration Act of 1940. Any such resident admitted under the foregoing provisions who fails to maintain the status for which he was admitted or to depart from the United States in accordance with the terms of his admission shall be taken into custody under a warrant issued by the Attorney General at any time after entry and deported in accordance with section 20 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, sections 5 and 6 of such Act shall not apply to the importation of aliens under this joint resolution. No provision of this joint resolution shall authorize the admission into the United States of any enemy alien. (57 Stat. 70.)

TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPORTATION OF ALIENS TO COUNTRIES ALLIED WITH THE UNITED STATES

[Act of July 18, 1943 (57 Stat. 553), amending the Act of February 5, 1917, as amended (39 Stat. 890; 8 U. S. C. 156), incorporated at p. 26.]

TO REPEAL THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACTS, TO ESTABLISH
QUOTAS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Act approved December 17, 1943

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Acts or parts of Acts relating to the exclusion or de

portation of persons of the Chinese race are hereby repealed:
May 6, 1882 (22 Stat. L. 58); July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L. 115);
September 13, 1888 (25 Stat. L. 476); October 1, 1888 (25 Stat.
L. 504); May 5, 1892 (27 Stat. L. 25); November 3, 1893 (28
Stat. L. 7); that portion of section 1 of the Act of July 7, 1898
(30 Stat. L. 750, 751), which reads as follows: "There shall be
no further immigration of Chinese into the Hawaiian Islands
except upon such conditions as are now or may hereafter be al-
lowed by the laws of the United States; and no Chinese, by reason
of anything herein contained, shall be allowed to enter the United
States from the Hawaiian Islands."; section 101 of the Act of
April 30, 1900 (31 Stat. L. 141, 161); those portions of section 1,
of the Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. L. 588, 611), which read as
follows: "And nothing in section four of the Act of August fifth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-two (Twenty-second Statutes at
Large, page two hundred and twenty-five), shall be construed to
prevent the Secretary of the Treasury from hereafter detailing
one officer employed in the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion
Acts for duty at the Treasury Department at Washington.
and hereafter the Commissioner-General of Immigration, in addi-
tion to his other duties, shall have charge of the administration of
the Chinese exclusion law * *, under the supervision and
direction of the Secretary of the Treasury."; March 3, 1901 (31
Stat. L. 1093); April 29, 1902 (32 Stat. L. 176); April 27, 1904
(33 Stat. L. 428); section 25 of the Act of March 3, 1911 (36 Stat.
L. 1087, 1094); that portion of the Act of August 24, 1912 (37
Stat. L. 417, 476), which reads as follows: "Provided, That all
charges for maintenance or return of Chinese persons applying
for admission to the United States shall hereafter be paid or re-
imbursed to the United States by the person, company, partner-
ship, or corporation, bringing such Chinese to a port of the
United States as applicants for admission."; that portion of the
Act of June 23, 1913 (38 Stat. L. 4, 65), which reads as follows:
"Provided, That from and after July first, nineteen hundred and
thirteen, all Chinese persons ordered deported under judicial
writs shall be delivered by the marshal of the district or his deputy
into the custody of any officer designated for that purpose by the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, for conveyance to the frontier
or seaboard for deportation in the same manner as aliens deported
under the immigration laws."

SEC. 2. With the exception of those coming under subsections (b), (d), (e), and (f) of section 4, Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 155; 44 Stat. 812; 45 Stat. 1009; 46 Stat. 854; 47 Stat. 656; 8 U. S. C. 204), all Chinese persons entering the United States annually as immigrants shall be allocated to the quota for the Chinese computed under the provisions of section 11 of the said Act. A preference up to 75 per centum of the quota shall be given to Chinese born and resident in China.

SEC. 3. Section 303 of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended (54 Stat. 1140; 8 U. S. C. 703), is hereby amended by striking out the word "and" before the word "descendants", changing the colon after the word "Hemisphere" to a comma, and adding the following: "and Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent:". (57 Stat. 600.)

FARM LABOR-SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION EXTENSION OF

APPROPRIATION

Act approved December 23, 1943; extending until January 31, 1944, the provisions of the Act of April 29, 1943, [p. 124] making an appropriation to assist in providing a supply and distribution of farm labor for the calendar year 1943.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That:

The Act of April 29, 1943 (Public Law 45), making an appropriation to assist in providing a supply and distribution of farm labor for the calendar year 1943, is hereby amended by striking out the date "December 31, 1943" in section 1 and inserting in lieu thereof "January 31, 1944," and is further amended so that the funds appropriated by section 1 and not heretofore or hereafter apportioned by the Administrator among the several States pursuant to section 2 shall be available for expenditure by the Administrator for the purposes specified in section 3.

SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in the Act approved July 12, 1943 (Public Law 132), funds available to the War Manpower Commission for the current migration of Mexican or Canadian nationals under the auspices of the War Manpower Commission for industrial and railroad purposes essential to the war effort, may continue to be expended during the fiscal year 1944. (57 Stat. 643.)

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING A SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION OF FARM LABOR FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1944"

Joint Resolution approved February 14, 1944

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, namely:

TITLE 1.-DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION

For assisting in providing an adequate supply of workers for the production, harvesting, and preparation for markets of agri

The Act of Apr. 29, 1943, p. 124, as amended by the Act of Dec. 23, 1943, p. 127, is incorporated in this resolution by reference.

cultural commodities essential to the prosecution of the war, $30,000,000, which sum, together with the amount appropriated in the Act of April 29, 1943 (Public Law 45), shall be merged into one fund, to remain available until December 31, 1944, and to be expended by the War Food Administrator (hereinafter referred to as the "Administrator"), appointed pursuant to Executive Order Numbered 9334, dated April 19, 1943, as follows:

PAYMENTS TO STATES

SEC. 2. (a) For the purpose of assisting in providing an adequate supply of workers for the production and harvesting of agricultural commodities within the several States, the Administrator shall apportion among the several States, on the basis of need, not less than $14,000,000 and not more than $18,500,000 of the sum appropriated by section 1 (including apportionments heretofore made) and the sums so apportioned shall be available for payment to such States for expenditure by the agricultural extension services of the land-grant colleges in such States in accordance with such agreements as may be entered into by the Administrator and such extension services and subject to the supervision of the Administrator. The purposes for which such funds may be expended by such extension services shall include, among other things, (1) the recruiting, placement (including the placement of workers as tenants or sharecroppers), and training of such workers; (2) transportation, supervision, subsistence, protection, health and medical and burial services, and shelter for such workers and their families and necessary personal property; (3) lease, repair, alteration, and operation of labor supply centers and other necessary facilities and services, including former Civilian Conservation Corps camps, and not to exceed $100,000 for the construction of labor supply centers and other necessary facilities and services (not to exceed $20,000 for any one center); (4) advancing to workers of sums due from employers within the United States who are under contractual obligation to reimburse such extension services for such advances; (5) employment of personnel and other administrative expenses; (6) payment to or reimbursement of other public or private agencies or individuals for furnishing services or facilities for such purposes; and (7) rendering assistance with respect to the deferment of agricultural labor, including among other things the furnishing of information on the contribution that individuals subject to selective service are making to agricultural production. Such extension services may enter into agreements with other public and private agencies and individuals and utilize the facilities and services of such agencies and individuals in carrying out the purposes of this section.

(b) The Administrator shall certify to the Secretary of the. Treasury, from time to time, the amounts to be paid to each State under this section and the time or times such amounts are to be paid; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Administrator, the amounts so certified.