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1 Immigration Act of 1917. P.L. 64-301 874 (1917)

handle is hein.immigration/imaconesev0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 874 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SEsS. II. Cs. 27-29. 1917. of the principal political party in the district in which the court is held opposing that to which the clerk or a duly qualified deputy clerk then acting, may belong, the clerk, or a duly qualified deputy clerk, and said commissioner each to place one name in said box alternately, without reference to party affiliations until the whole number required shall be placed therein. Approved, February 3, 1917. February 3, 1917. IS.3J. Res. 2D2.] CRAP. 28-Joint Resolution To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerkof [Pub. Res., No. 47.] the House of Representatives to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremo- nies of the President of the United States on March fifth, nineteen hundred and seven- teen. Inaugural ceremon- Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ca. States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Secretary Cooa?'Pem r of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies of the President of the United States, March fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, in accordance with such program as may be adopted by the joint com- mittee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed under Post, P. 16K6 a concaurrent resolution of the two Houses, including the pay for extra police for three days, at $3 per day, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available; payment to be made upon vouchers approved by the chairman of said joint committee. Approved, February 3, 1917. February 5, 1917. H. .o10384.] CAP. 29.-An Act To regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the rest- [Public, No. 301.] dence of aliens in, the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ImmigationsAt. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the word Aliens defined. alien wherever used in this Act shall include any person not a native-born or naturalized citizen of the United States; but this definition shall not be held to include Indians of the United States ,,UnitedStatescon- not taxed or citizens of the islands under the jurisdiction of the sted. United States. That the term United States as used in the title as well as in the various sections of this Act shall be construed to mean the United States, and any waters, territory, or other place subject canalZoe ains- to the jurisdiction thereof, except the Isthmian Canal Zone; but if any alien shall leave the Canal Zone or any insular possession of the United States and attempt to enter any other place under the juris- diction of the United States, nothing contained in this Act shall be Persons included a construed as permitting him to enter under any other conditions than seamen. those applicable to all aliens. That the term seaman as used in this Act shall include every person signed on the ship's articles and employed in any capacity on board any vessel arriving in the United Enforcement in the States from any foreign port or place. Philippines. That this Act shall be enforced in the Philippine Islands by officers of the general government thereof, unless and until it is superseded by an act passed by the Philippine Legislature and approved by the President of the United States to regulate immigration in the Philip- AUe, p. 548. pine Islands as authorized in the Act entitled An Act to declare the purpose of the people of the United States as to the future political status of the people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for those islands, approved August twenty- ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.