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1 Immigration Act of 1924. P.L. 68-139 153 (1924)

handle is hein.immigration/immacttofor0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Suss. L Os. 185,190. 1924. 153 CHAP. 185.-An Act To amend an Act entitled An Act to revive with May,14 amendments, an Act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of lum [H. R. 4122.1 bia, approved July 7, 1838, as amended. [Public, No. 138.1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act MD1 fSolumbi entitled An Act to revive with amendments, an Act to incorporate Vol.,p.741. the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, ap proved July Vol. 18,p. 11, amend- 7, 1838 (Sixth Statutes at Large, page 741), as amended, be, and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows: That Doctors George Wythe Cook, William Gerry Morgan, John Incorporatos. B. Nichols John D. Thomas, E. Y. Davidson, Philip S. Roy, A. L. Stavely, Henry C. Macatee, E. G. Sibert, J. Russell Verbrycke, junior, A. W. Boswell, Charles S. White, J. A. Gannon, D. S. Lamb, and Virgil B. Jackson, and such other persons as they may associate, with themselves, and their successors, be, and they hereby are, constituted a body corporate not for profit of the District of Columbia, for the purpose of promoting and aisseminating medical and surgical knowledge, and for no other purpose, and not for the purpose of establishing a medical school or schools. SEc. 2. That the Medical Society of the District of Columbia be, 0tersPea holdns and it is hereby, empowered to own, mortgage, and convey such property as may be necessary for its purposes, and to make such rules and regulations as it may require, and which may not be rep ugnant to the Constitution or laws of the United States. 4 SEc. 3. That Congress may at any time alter, amend, or annul *ndment. this Act of incorporation of said society. Approved, May 24, 1924. CHAP. 190.-An Act To limit the immigration of aliens into the United RM States, and for other purposes. [Public, No. 139.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may ir'aration Aeor be cited as the Immigration Act of 1924. IMMIGRATION VISA. Immigrationvises. Szo. 2. (a) A consular officer upon the application of any conis to an on immigrant (as defined in section 3) may (under the conditions mrant. o ot- hereinafter prescribed and subject to the limitations prescribed in this Act or regulations made thereunder as to the number of immigration visas which may be issued by such officer) issue to such immigrant an immigration visa which shall consist of one copy of the application provided for in section 7, visaed by such Posp.1. consular officer. Such visa shall specify (1) the nationality of the oContents of apples. immigrant; (2) whether he is a quota immigrant (as defined in * section 5) or a non-quota immigrant (as defined in section 4); (8) the date on which the validity of the immigration visa shall expire; and (4) such additional information necessary to the proper enforcement of the immigration laws and the naturalization laws as ma be by regulations prescribed. ( The immigrant a furnish two copies of his photograph f traPh to be to the consular officer. One copy shall be permanently attached Dsposition. by the consular ofcer to the immigration visa and the other copy shall be disposed of as may be by regulations prescribed. (c) The validity of an immigration visa slall expire at the end Expiration period. of such period, specified in the immigration visa, not exceeding four