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A79393 1 (1906-11-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadadm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ERECTION OF BUILDINGS ON ELLIS ISLAND. USE OF IMMIGRANT FUND FOR EXPENSE OF PROCUREMENT OF TEMPORARY BUILDINGS ON ELLIS ISLAND. The immigrant fund is not applicable to the payment of the expenses of erecting temporary portable buildings on Ellis Island for use in the detention and treatment of alien applicants for admission into the United States, but is applicable to the payment of rent for the use of buildings erected for such purpose by private per- sons, under a revocable license, in which provision is made for their removal when no longer needed for the service in question. (Comptroller Tracewell to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Novcmber 20, 1906.) In your communication of November 17, 1906, you request my decision of a question which you therein present as follows: The Department submits herewith certain correspond- ence, together with blueprints, with reference to the desira- bility and necessity of erecting at the Ellis Island Immigrant Station certain temporary structures in the nature of porta- ble buildings for use in detaining alien applicants for admis- sion and as hospitals for the care and treatment of those afflicted with diseases which under the law can be treated pending the determination of the right of the aliens to land. The existing detention and hospital quarters at Ellis Island are inadequate for the proper handling of the immi- grant traffic even during the dull season, and the necessity 355

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