Punishment. Jurisdiction of courts. Alien prostitutes. Authority Commissioner to engage in prostitution or debauchery, or any other immoral practice, and shall in furtherance of such purpose knowingly induce or cause her to go and to be carried or transported as a passenger in interstate commerce upon the line or route of any common carrier or carriers, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 5. That any violation of any of the above sections two, three, and four shall be prosecuted in any court having jurisdiction of crimes within the district in which said violation was committed, or from, through, or into which any such woman or girl may have been carried or transported as a passenger in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or the District of Columbia, contrary to the provisions of any of said sections. SEC. 6. That for the purpose of regulating and preventInformation ing the transportation in foreign commerce of alien women bureau estab- and girls for purposes of prostitution and debauchery, and in pursuance of and for the purpose of carrying out the terms of the agreement or project of arrangement for the suppression of the white-slave traffic, adopted July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and two, for submission to their respective governments by the delegates of various powers represented at the Paris conference and confirmed by a formal agreement signed at Paris on May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, and adhered to by the United States on June sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, as shown by the proclamation of the President of the United of States, dated June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, General of Immi- the Commissioner-General of Immigration is hereby designated as the authority of the United States to receive and centralize information concerning the procuration of alien women and girls with a view to their debauchery, and to exercise supervision over such alien women and girls, receive their declarations, establish their identity, and ascertain from them who induced them to leave their native countries, respectively; and it shall be the duty of Statements re- said Commissioner-General of Immigration to receive and keep on file in his office the statements and declarations which may be made by such alien women and girls, and those which are hereinafter required pertaining to such alien women and girls engaged in prostitution or debauchery in this country, and to furnish receipts for such statements and declarations provided for in this act to the persons, respectively, making and filing them. gration. quired. Statements of alien inmates to ers of houses of prostitution. Every person who shall keep, maintain, control, supbe made by keep- port, or harbor in any house or place for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, any alien woman or girl within three years after she shall have entered the United States from any country, party to the said arrangement for the suppression of the white-slave statement a mis traffic, shall file with the Commissioner-General of Immigration a statement in writing setting forth the name of such alien woman or girl, the place at which she is kept, and all facts as to the date of her entry into the United States, the port through which she entered, her age, nationality, and parentage, and concerning her procuration to come to this country within the knowledge of such person, and any person who shall fail within thirty days Failure to file after such person shall commence to keep, maintain, con- demeanor. trol, support, or harbor in any house or place for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, any alien woman or girl within three years after she shall have entered the United States from any of the countries, party to the said arrangement for the suppression of the white-slave traffic, to file such statement concerning such alien woman or girl with the Commissioner-General of Immigration, or who shall knowingly and willfully state falsely or fail to disclose in such statement any fact within his knowledge or belief with reference to the age, nationality, or parentage of any such alien woman or girl, or concerning her procuration to come to this country, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Punishment. statement not on In any prosecution brought under this section, if it Presumption if appear that any such statement required is not on file in file. the office of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, the person whose duty it shall be to file such statement shall be presumed to have failed to file said statement, as herein required, unless such person or persons shall prove otherwise. No person shall be excused from furnishing the statement, as required by this section, on the ground or for the reason that the statement so required by him, or the information therein contained, might tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture, but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any truthful statepenalty of forfeiture under any law of the United States ments. for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing, concerning which he may truthfully report in such statement, as required by the provisions of this section. Immunity for Alaska, insular tory." construed. SEC. 7. That the term "Territory," as used in this Act, possessions, and shall include the district of Alaska, the insular possessions Canal Zone inof the United States, and the Canal Zone. The word cluded in “Terri"person," as used in this Act, shall be construed to Persons," import both the plural and the singular, as the case demands, and shall include corporations, companies, societies, and associations. When construing and enforc-Corporations, ing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure for agents, etc. of any officer, agent, or other person, acting for or employed by any other person or by any corporation, company, society, or association within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case be also deemed to be etc., responsible Title the act, omission, or failure of such other person, or of such company, corporation, society, or association, as well as that of the person himself. SEC. 8. That this Act shall be known and referred to as the "White-slave traffic Act.” June 25, 1910. [H. R. 16871.] [Public, No. 283. 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 829. Extra allow courts. CHAP. 401.-An Act To amend section thirteen of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout United States," and for other naturalization purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Immigration. That section thirteen of the Act approved June twentyance to clerks of ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act to establish a Bureau of mmigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States," is hereby amended by striking out the last sentence of the section, which reads as follows: "And in case the clerk of any court collects fees in excess of the sum of six thousand dollars in any one year, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may allow to such clerk from the money which the United States shall receive additional compensation for the employment of additional clerical assistance, but for no other purpose, if in the opinion of the said Secretary the business of such clerk warrants such allowance," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Clerks of courts. lowed tion clerks. Provisos. "And in case the clerk of any court exercising naturalito addi-zation jurisdiction collects fees in excess of the sum of tional naturaliza- six thousand dollars in any fiscal year the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may allow salaries, for naturalization purposes only, to pay for clerical assistance, to be selected and employed by that clerk, additional to the clerical force, for which clerks of courts are required by this section to pay from fees received by such clerks in naturalization proceedings, if in the opinion of said Secretary the naturalization business of such clerk warrants further additional assistance: Provided, That in no event shall the whole amount allowed the clerk of a court and his assistants exceed the one-half of the gross receipts of the office of said clerk from naturalization fees during Continuance at such fiscal year: Provided further, That when, at the close of any fiscal year, the business of such clerk of court indicates in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor that the naturalization fees for the succeeding fiscal year will exceed six thousand dollars the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may authorize the continuance of the allowance of salaries for the additional clerical assistance herein provided for and employed on the last day of the fiscal year until such time as the remittances indicate in the opinion of said Secretary that the fees for the then current fiscal year will not be suffi beginning of fiscal year. cient to allow the additional clerical assistance authorized by this Act. ment, etc. "That payment for the additional clerical assistance Mode of payherein authorized shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe." for clerical assistance Provisos. Restriction. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is Payment hereby authorized to make requisition on the Treasurer September 27 of the United States for such amount as may be necessary 1907. 1906, to June 30, in his opinion to pay the clerks of the several courts exercising jurisdiction under section three of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirtyfourth Statutes, page five hundred and ninety-six), for any additional clerical assistance employed by them during the period from September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, if in the opinion of said Secretary the business of such clerks, during the aforesaid period, warranted any allowance for such additional clerical assistance: Provided, That no allowance shall be made by said Secretary to any clerk for additional clerical assistance who has not collected fees in naturalization proceedings in excess of the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars during the period from September twentyseventh, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, and that the total salaries of such additional clerical assistance shall in no instance exceed the fees received by the United States from the clerk of that court during the period from September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive. Such amount as may be necessary to pay the additional clerical assistance herein provided for, not exceeding two two thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated from any Appropriation. moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That payment for the cleri- Regulations. cal assistance herein provided for shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe: Provided further, That Limit. no moneys shall be paid to any clerk in excess of the aggregate of the sums paid out by him. SEC. 3. That paragraph two of section four of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States," approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended by adding after the proviso in paragraph two of section four of said Act the following: Petitions for citizenship. tion in certain "Provided further, That any person belonging to the issue of natu class of persons authorized and qualified under existing without declaralaw to become a citizen of the United States who has cases. resided constantly in the United States during a period of five years next preceding May first, nineteen hundred and ten, who, because of misinformation in regard to his citizenship or the requirements of the law governing the naturalization of citizens has labored and acted under the impression that he was or could become a citizen of the United States and has in good faith exercised the rights or duties of a citizen or intended citizen of the United States because of such wrongful information and belief may, upon making a showing of such facts satisfactory to a court having jurisdiction to issue papers of naturalization to an alien, and the court in its judgment believes that such person has been for a period of more than five years entitled upon proper proceedings to be naturalized as a citizen of the United States, receive from the said court a final certificate of naturalization, and said court may issue such certificate without requiring proof of former declaration by or on the part of such person of their intention to become a citizen of the United States, but such applicant for naturalization shall comply in all other respects with the law relative to the issuance of final papers of naturalization to aliens." Approved, June 25, 1910. June 25, 1910. CHAP. 402.—An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and [H. R. 16877.]___ twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by [Public, No. 284.] Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six. 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 831. Steamboat - In spection Service. tificates. Certificates inspection. p. 857, amended. of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Inspection cer- of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-four hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, be, and it is hereby, further amended, so as to read as follows, to wit: "SEC. 4421. When the inspection of a steam vessel is R. S., sec. 4421, completed and the inspectors approve the vessel and her equipment throughout, they shall make and subscribe a certificate to the collector or other chief officer of the customs of the district in which such inspection has been made, in accordance with the form and regulations prescribed by the board of supervising inspectors. Such certificate shall be verified by the oaths of inspectors signing it, before the chief officer of the customs of the district or any other person competent by law to administer oaths. If the inspectors refuse to grant a certificate of approval, they shall make a statement in writing, and sign the same, Temporary cer- giving the reasons for their disapproval. Upon such inspection and approval the inspectors shall also make and subscribe a temporary certificate, which shall set forth substantially the fact of such inspection and approval, and shall deliver the same to the master or owner of the vessel, and shall keep a copy thereof on file in their office. Exhibition of The said temporary certificate shall be carried and exR. S., sec. 4423, posed by vessels in the same manner as is provided in section forty-four hundred and twenty-three for copies of the tificate. certificates. p. 857. Form, etc. |