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1 Page Act of 1875 477 (1875)

handle is hein.immigration/pageact0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. SESs. I. C. 141. 1875. 477 CHAP. 141.-An act supplementary to the acts in relation to immigration. March 3, 1875. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in determining whether Inquiry by con- the immigration of any subject of China, Japan, or any Oriental country, sular officer as to 7contract of miii- to the United States, is free and voluntary, as provided by section two trant from China thousand one hundred and sixty.two of the Revised Code, title Immi- orJapanforservice gration, it shall be the duty of the consul-general or consul of the for immoral pur- United States residing at the port from which it is proposed to con- poses. vey such subjects, in any vessels enrolled or licensed in the United States, or any port within the same, before delivering to the masters of any such vessels the permit or certificate provided for in such section, Cond iti on a of to ascertain whether such immigrant has entered into a contract or certificate. agreement for a term of service-within the United States, for lewd and R. S.,2162, p.378 immoral purposes; and if there be such contract or agreement, the said consul-general or consul shall not deliver the required permit or cerztificate. SuE. 2. That if any citizen of the United States, or other person Citizen of United amenable to the laws of the United States, shall take,' or cause to be Statestransporting taken or transported, to or from the United States any subject of China, subject of China or ja.Iwithout free Japan, or any Oriental country, without their free and voluntary con- consent. sent, for the purpose of holding them to a term of service, such citizen or other person shall be liable to be indicted therefor, and, on conviction of such offense, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand Peralty. dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding one year; and all contracts contractforserv- and agreements for a ternt of service of such persons in the United ice void. States, whether made in advance or in pursuance of such illegal impor- tation, and whether such importation shall have been in American or other vessels, are hereby declared void. SEO. 3. That the importation into the United States of women for Importation of the purposes of prostitution is hereby forbidden; and all contracts and women for pur- agreements in relation thereto, made in advance or in pursuance of pses of prostita- such illegal importation and purposes, are hereby declared void; and Contract void. whoever shall knowingly and willfully import, or cause any importation of, women into the United States for the purposes of prostitution, or shall knowingly or willfully hold, or attempt to hold, any woman to . such purposes, in pursuance of such illegal importation and contract or agreement, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years and pay a fine not exceed- Penalty. ing five thousand dollars. SEO. 4. That if any person shall knowingly and willfully contract, or Contracting to attempt to contract, in advance or in pursuance of such illegal importa- supply labor of tion, to supply to another the labor of any cooly or other person brought tin v n into the United States in violation of section two thousand one hundred vised statutes. and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes, or of any other section of the laws prohibiting the cooly-trade or of this act, such person shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, in any United States court, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars Penalty. and imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. - SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for aliens of the following cla.r'es to Immigration of immigrate into the United States, namely, persons who are unde. oing alien convicts, and a sentence for conviction in their own country of felonious crimes other of women for pur- than political or growing out of or the result of such political offenses, in forbidsettu or whose sentence has been remitted on condition of their emigration, and women imported for the purposes of prostitution. Every vessel arriving in the United States may be inspected under the direction of Inspectionofves- the collector of the port at which it arrives, if he shall have reason to sels. believe that any such obnoxious persons are on board; and the officer making such inspection shall certify the result thereof to the master or other person in charge of such vessel, designating in such certificate Certificate of it- the person or persons, if any there be, ascertained by him to be of either spector. of the classes whose importation is hereby forbidden. When such When inspection inspection is required by the collector as aforesaid, it shall be unlawful, required, alien not to land until, &c.

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