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[H. J. Res. 285]

JOINT RESOLUTION

To permit the temporary entry into the United States under certain conditions of alien participants and officials of the National Boy Scout Jamboree to be held in the United States in 1935.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That alien Boy Scout. participants, Boy Scout Officials, and Boy Scout Executives who are accredited members of delegations to the National Boy Scout Jamboree to be held in the United States in 1935, all of whom are nonimmigrants, if otherwise admissible into the United States under. the immigration laws, shall be exempted from the payment of the tax of $8 prescribed by section 2 of the Immigration Act of 1917, and exempted from the fees prescribed by law to be collected in connection with executing an application for a visa and visaing the passport or other travel document of an alien for the purpose of entering the United States as a nonimmigrant, and such aliens shall not be required to present official passports issued by the governments to which they owe allegiance: Provided, That aliens shall be in possession of official Boy Scout identity cards issued by their own government or issued by the International Committee of the Boy Scouts indicating their Boy Scout status and nationality, and duly visaed without charge by American consular officers abroad: And provided further, That such aliens shall comply with regulations not inconsistent with the foregoing provisions which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor and Secretary of State: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall relieve an alien from being required to obtain a gratis nonimmigration visa if coming to the United States. as a nonimmigrant, or an immigration visa if coming to the United States as an immigrant.

SEC. 2. That such aliens shall be permitted the free entry of their personal effects and their equipment to be used in connection with the National Boy Scout Jamboree, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Approved, June 17, 1935.

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[H. R. 6464]

AN ACT

To provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any native Filipino residing in any State or the District of Columbia on the effective date of this Act, who desires to return to the Philippine Islands, may apply to the Secretary of Labor, upon such form as the Secretary may prescribe, through any officer of the Immigration Service for the benefits of this Act. Upon approval of such application, the Secretary of Labor shall notify such Filipino forthwith, and shall certify to the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of War that such Filipino is eligible to be returned to the Philippine Islands under the terms of this Act. Every Filipino who is so certified shall be entitled, at the expense of the United States, to transportation and maintenance from his present residence to a port on the west coast of the United States, and from such port, to passage and maintenance to the port of Manila, Philippine Islands, on either Navy or Army transports, whenever space on such transports is available, or on any ship of United States registry operated by a commercial steamship company which has a contract with the Secretary of Labor as provided in section 2.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of Labor is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contracts with any railroad or other transportation company, for the transportation from their present residences to a port on the west coast of the United States of Filipinos eligible under section 1 to receive such transportation, and with any commercial steamship company, controlled by citizens of the United States and operating ships under United States registry, for transportation and maintenance of such Filipinos from such ports to the port of Manila. Philippine Islands, at such rates as may be agreed upon between the Secretary and such steamship, railroad, or other transportation company.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of Labor is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this Act, to enter into the necessary arrangements with the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, to fix the ports on the west coast of the United States from which any Filipinos shall be transported and the dates upon which transportation shall be available from such ports, to provide for the identification of the Filipinos entitled to the benefits of this Act, and to prevent voluntary interruption of the journey between any port on the west coast of the United States and the port of Manila, Philippine Islands.

SEC. 4. No Filipino who receives the benefits of this Act shall be entitled to return to the continental United States except as a quota immigrant under the provisions of section 8 (a) (1) of the Philippine Independence Act of March 24, 1934, during the period such section 8 (a) (1) is applicable.

SEC. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. All amounts so appropriated shall be administered by the Secretary of Labor, and all expenses, including those incurred by the Navy and War Departments, shall be charged thereto.

SEC. 6. No application for the benefits of this Act shall be accepted by any officer of the Immigration Service after December 1, 1936; and all benefits under this Act shall finally terminate on December 31, 1936, unless the journey has been started on or before that date, in which case the journey to Manila shall be completed.

SEC. 7. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authority to deport any native of the Philippine Islands, and no Filipino removed from continental United States under the provisions of this Act shall hereafter be held to have been deported from the United States. Approved, July 10, 1935.

[PRIVATE-NO. 425-74TH CONGRESS]

[S. 3399]

AN ACT

For the relief of Rosalie Piar Sprecher (nee Rosa Piar).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the administration of the immigration laws, relating to the issuance of immigration visas for admission to the United States for permanent residence and relating to admissions at ports of entry of aliens as immigrants for permanent residence in the United States, that provision of section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917 (39 Stat. 875), as amended (U. S. C., title 8, sec. 136 (e)), which excludes from admission into the United States "persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude", shall not hereafter be held to apply to Rosalie Piar Sprecher, who is the wife of H. C. Sprecher, an American citizen, on account of an offense alleged to have been committed abroad while she was about eighteen years of age during her legal infancy more than nine years prior to the effective date of this Act and prior to her marriage in the United States to H. C. Sprecher. If she is found otherwise admissible under the immigration laws an immigration visa may be issued and admission granted to Rosalie Piar Sprecher (nee Rosa Piar) under this Act upon application hereafter filed.

Approved, March 7, 1936.

[H. J. Res. 443]

JOINT RESOLUTION

To amend Public Resolution Numbered 31 of the Seventy-fourth Congress, first session, approved June 17, 1935, so as to extend its provisions to cover the National Boy Scout Jamboree now scheduled to be held in 1937.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That_Public Resolution Numbered 31 of the first session, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved June 17, 1935, is hereby amended as follows: In section 1 of the public resolution after the words "to be held in the United States in" the figures "1935" are amended to read "1937".

Approved, March 18, 1936.

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 96-74TH CONGRESS]
[H. J. Res. 439]

JOINT RESOLUTION

Authorizing the erection in the Department of Labor Building of a memorial to the officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Immigration Border Patrol who, while on active duty, lost their lives under heroic or tragic circumstances.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Director of the National Park Service be, and is hereby, authorized to grant permission for the erection of a memorial to the officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Immigration Border Patrol who, while on active duty lost their lives under heroic or tragic circumstances. The design of the memorial shall be approved and the site in the Department of Labor Building shall be chosen by the Commission of Fine Arts, and the United States shall be put to no expense in or by the erection of the said memorial.

Approved, May 28, 1936.

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[H. R. 9991]

AN ACT

To extend the time for applying for and receiving benefits under the Act entitled "An Act to provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States", approved July 10, 1935.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide means by which_certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States", approved July 10, 1935, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 6. No application for the benefits of this Act shall be accepted by any officer of the Immigration Service after December 1, 1937; and all benefits under this Act shall finally terminate on December 31, 1937, unless the journey has been started on or before that date, in which case the journey to Manila shall be completed." Approved, June 4, 1936.

[PRIVATE RESOLUTION-NO. 6-74TH CONGRESS]
[H. J. Res. 388]

JOINT RESOLUTION

To authorize the issuance of a reentry permit to Tomio Mori Moto and his readmission upon application while such permit remains valid.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Labor is authorized and directed to issue to Tomio Mori Moto a permit to reenter the United States after a temporary visit to Japan, notwithstanding his ineligibility for admission for permanent residence, and to readmit him to the United States if he applies for readmission during the validity of his permit to reenter.

Approved, June 22, 1936.

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