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(d) The term "immigration visé" means an immigration visé issued by a consular officer under the provisions of this act;

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(e) The term "consular officer means any consular or diplomatic officer of the United States designated, under regulations prescribed under this act, for the purpose of issuing immigration visés under this act. In case of the Canal Zone and the insular possessions of the United States the term "consular officer (except as used in section 24) means an officer designated by the President, or by his authority, for the purpose of issuing immigration visés under this act;

(f) The term "Immigration Act of 1917" means the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States ";

(g) The term "immigration laws" includes such act, this act, and all laws, conventions, and treaties of the United States relating to the immigration, exclusion, or expulsion of aliens;

(h) The term "person" includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations;

(i) The term "Commissioner General " missioner General of Immigration;

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(j) The term "application for admission " has reference to the application for admission to the United States and not to the application for the issuance of the immigration visé;

(k) The term "permit" means a permit issued under section 10;

(1) The term " unmarried," when used in reference to any individual as of any time, means an individual who at such time is not married, whether or not previously married;

(m) The terms "child," "father," and "mother," do not include a child or parent by adoption unless the adoption took place before January 1, 1924;

(n) The term "wife" and "husband" do not include a wife or husband by reason of a proxy or picture marriage.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION

Sec. 29. The appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for the enforcement of this act is hereby authorized.

ACT OF MAY 19, 1921

Sec. 30. The act entitled "An act to limit the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved May 19, 1921, as amended and extended, shall, notwithstanding its expiration on June 30, 1924, remain in force thereafter for the imposition, collection, and enforcement of all penalties that may have accrued thereunder, and any alien who prior to July 1, 1924, may have entered the United States in violation of such act or regulations made thereunder may be deported in the same manner as if such act had not expired.

TIME OF TAKING EFFECT

Sec. 31. (a) Sections 2, 8, 13, 14, 15, and 16, and subdivision (f) of section 11, shall take effect on July 1, 1924, except that immigration visés and permits may be issued prior to that date, which shall not be valid for admission to the United States before July 1, 1924. In the case of quota immigrants of any nationality, the number of immigration visés to be issued prior to July 1, 1924, shall not be in excess of 10 per centum of the quota for such nationality, and the number of immigration visés so issued shall be deducted from the number which may be issued during the month of July, 1924. In the case of immigration visés issued before July 1, 1924, the four-month period referred to in subdivision (c) of section 2 shall begin to run on July 1, 1924, instead of at the time of the issuance of the immigration visé.

(b) The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its enactment.

(c) If any alien arrives in the United States before July 1, 1924, his right to admission shall be determined without regard to the provisions of this act, except section 23.

SAVING CLAUSE IN EVENT OF

UNCONSTITUTIONALITY

Sec. 31. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. Approved, May 26, 1924.

APPENDIX E

NATURALIZATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS

NATURALIZATION LAWS

Act of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat. L., Part 1, p. 596), as amended in sections 16, 17, and 19 by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., Part 1, p. 1102); in section 13 by the act of Congress approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. L., Part 1, p. 830); by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. L., Part 1, p. 736), creating the Department of Labor; and by the act of Congress approved May 9, 1918 (Public No. 144, 65th Congress, 2d sess.).

An Act To provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States, and establishing the Bureau of Naturalization.

[Portion of act creating the Department of Labor]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby created an executive department in the Government to be called the Department of Labor, with a Secretary of Labor, who shall be the head thereof, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; ***

Sec. 3. That the following-named officers, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service now and heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and all that pertains to the same, known as *** the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization,

the Division of Naturalization, * * be, and the same hereby are, transferred from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision of

the last-named department. The Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization is hereby divided into two bureaus, to be known hereafter as the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization, and the titles Chief of Division of Naturalization and Assistant Chief shall be Commissioner of Naturalization and Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization. The Commissioner of Naturalization or, in his absence, the Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization, shall be the administrative officer in charge of the Bureau of Naturalization and of the administration of the naturalization laws under the immediate direction of the Secretary of Labor, to whom he shall report directly upon all naturalization matters annually and as otherwise required.

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(Act of June 29, 1906, as amended by the acts heretofore referred to.)

That the Bureau of Naturalization, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Labor, shall have charge of all matters concerning the naturalization of aliens. That it shall be the duty of the Bureau of Immigration to provide, for use at the various immigration stations throughout the United States, books of record, wherein the commissioners of immigration shall cause a registry to be made in the case of each alien arriving in the United States from and after the passage of this act of the name, age, occupation, personal description (including height, complexion, color of hair and eyes), the place of birth, the last residence, the intended place of residence in the United States, and the date of arrival of said alien, and if entered through a port, the name of the vessel in which he comes. And it shall be the duty of said commissioners of immigration to cause to be granted to such alien a certificate of such registry, with the particulars thereof.58

Sec. 2. (This section is omitted, as it authorized the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to provide the necessary offices in the city of Washington and take the necessary steps for the proper discharge of the duties imposed by the Act of June 29, 1906.)

58 See Rule 5.

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