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1 Chinese Exclusion Act 58 (1882)

handle is hein.immigration/chinexcl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. SESS. I. C. 117-120,126. 1882. award in acknowledgment of the services of masters anu crews of for- eign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck. Appointments SECTrON TEN.-That the appointment of district superintendents, in- made by reason of spectors, and keepers and crews of life-saving stations shall be made poticand n for solely with reference to their fitness, and without reference to their po- litical or party affiliations. SECTION ELEVEN.-That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. - Approved, May 4, 1882. May 4, 1882. CHAP. 11. -An act to amend the laws with reference to elections in West Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United West Virginia. States of America in Congress assembled, That on the second Tuesday of Election of Rep- October, eighteen hundred and eighty-two there shall be elected in resentativesforthe each Congressional District in the State oi West Virginia, one repre- rt-eighth con- sentative to represent said State of West Virginia in the Forty-eighth Congress. SEC. 2.-That said election shall be conducted according to the laws now in force, except so far as the same relate to and fix the time of such election. Approved, May 4, 1882. May 4, 1882. CHAP. 119.-An act making an immediate appropriation for die removal of obstrue- tions at Hell Gate, New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and Etouse qf Representatives of the United, Removal of ob- States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifty thousand structions from dollars be and is hereby appropriated; to be paid out of any money in Hell Gate, N. Y. the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the removal of obstruc- Appropriation. tions in East River, Hell Gate, New York, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to be immnediately available. Approved, May 4, 1882. May 4, 1882. CHAP. 120.-An act to repeal the discriminating duties on goods produced east of the Cape of Goqd Hope. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United epea 1 of dis- States of America in Congress assembled, That section two thousand criminating duties five hundred and one of the Revised Statutes of the United States which on goods produced reads as follows; east of the Cape of'rasa flos Good Hope when There shall be levied, collected and paid on all goods, wares, and imported from merchandise of the growth or produce of the countries 6ast of the Cape Places west of the of Good Hope (except wool, raw cotton and raw silk, as reeled from the Cpe_ .oode e cocoon, or not further advanced than tram thrown or organzine,) when fro.. an afea- nary 1, 1883. imported from places west of the Cape of Good Hope, a duty of ten per , R. S., 2501, 459, centum ad valorem in addition to the duties imposed on any such arti- repealed. cle when imported directly from the place or places of their growth or production, be and the same is hereby repealed from,andafter the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Approved, May 4, 1882. May 6, 1882. CHAP. 126.-An act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese. Preamble. Whereas, in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese 'laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof: Therefore,.

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