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CHANGING THE NAME OF THE ISLAND PORTO RICO TO

PUERTO RICO

[Act of May 17, 1932 (47 Stat. 158), amending Act of May 26, 1926 (8 U. S. C. 231), incorporated at p. 91.]

CERTAIN DEPORTED ALIENS MAY REENTER AFTER EXPIRATION OF ONE YEAR, APPROVAL OF APPLICATION NECESSARY [Act of May 25, 1932 (47 Stat. 166), amending subd. (a), sec. 1, Act of March 4, 1929 (8 U. S. C, 181), incorporated at p. 93.]

ACT RELATING TO THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION OF CERTAIN NATIVES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES

Act approved June 28, 1932

NATIVE OF VIRGIN ISLANDS RESIDING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a native of the Virgin Islands of the United States who is now residing in any foreign country shall for the purpose of the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, be considered as a nonquota immigrant for the purposes of admission to the United States; but shall be subject to all the other provisions of that Act and of the immigration laws, except that

(a) He shall not be subject to the head tax imposed by section 2 of the Immigration Act of 1917;

(b) He shall not be required to have a passport or immigration visa;

(c) If otherwise admissible, he shall not be excluded under section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917, unless excluded under the provisions of that section relating to

(1) Persons afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease;

(2) Polygamy;

(3) Prostitutes, procurers, or other like immoral persons; (4) Contract laborers;

(5) Persons previously deported; or

(6) Persons convicted of crime.

(47 Stat. 336; 8 U. S. C. 204a.)

LIMITATION ON OPERATION OF SECTION 1

SEC. 2. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall not apply to any such alien after the expiration of two years following the enactment of this Act. (47 Stat. 336; 8 U. S. C. 204b.)

DEPORTATION AS PUBLIC CHARGE

SEC. 3. An alien admitted to the United States under this Act shall not be subject to deportation on the ground that he has become a public charge. (47 Stat. 336; 8 U. S. C. 204c.)

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 4. Terms defined in the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, shall, when used in this Act, have the meaning assigned to such terms in that Act. (47 Stat. 336; 8 U. S. C. 204d.)

TO SECURE THE DEPARTURE OF CERTAIN ALIENS FROM THE

UNITED STATES

[Act of July 1, 1932 (47 Stat. 524-525), amending sec. 15, Act of May 26, 1924 (8 U. S. C. 215), incorporated at p. 54.]

NONIMMIGRANT STATUS OF CERTAIN ALIENS

[Act of July 6, 1932 (47 Stat. 607-608), amending sec. 3(6), Act of May 26, 1924 (8 U. S. C. 203), incorporated at p. 41.]

TO EXEMPT FROM THE QUOTA HUSBANDS OF AMERICAN

CITIZENS

[Act of July 11, 1932 (47 Stat. 656), amending subd. (a), sec. 4, and Clause (A), par. (1), subd. (a), sec. 6, Act of May 26, 1924 (8 U. S. C. 204, 206 (a)), incorporated at pp. 42 and 43.]

APPLICATION OF IMMIGRATION LAWS TO CITIZENS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

Act approved March 24, 1934, as amended

[This act was accepted by concurrent resolution of the Philippine Legislature on May 1, 1934, and became effective on that date. It is entitled "An Act to provide for the complete independence of the Philippine Islands, to provide for the adoption of a constitution and a form of government for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes." Section 8 of the act reads as follows:]

(1) For the purposes of the Immigration Act of 1917, the Immigration Act of 1924 (except section 13 (c)), this section, and all other laws of the United States relating to the immigration, exclusion, or expulsion of aliens, citizens of the Philippine Islands who are not citizens of the United States shall be considered as if they were aliens. For such purposes the Philippine Islands shall be considered as a separate country and shall have for each fiscal year a quota of fifty. This paragraph shall not apply to a person coming or seeking to come to the Territory of Hawaii who does not apply for and secure an immigration or passport visa, but such immigration shall be determined by the Department of the Interior on the basis of the needs of industries in the Territory of Hawaii.

(2) Citizens of the Philippine Islands who are not citizens of the United States shall not be admitted to the Continental United States from the Territory of Hawaii (whether entering such Territory before or after the effective date of this section) unless they belong to a class declared to be nonimmigrants by section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1924 or to a class declared to be nonquota immigrants under the provisions of section 4 of such Act other than subdivision (c) thereof, or unless they were admitted to such territory under an immigration visa. The Attorney General shall by regulations provide a method for such exclusion and for the admission of such excepted classes.

(3) Any Foreign Service officer may be assigned to duty in the Philippine Islands, under a commission as a consular officer, for such period as may be necessary and under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, during which assignment such officer shall be considered as stationed in a foreign country; but his powers and duties shall be confined to the performance of such of the official acts and notarial and other services, which such officer

might properly perform in respect of the administration of the immigration laws if assigned to a foreign country as a consular officer, as may be authorized by the Secretary of State.

(4) For the purposes of sections 18 and 20 of the Immigration Act of 1917, as amended, the Philippine Islands shall be considered. to be a foreign country.

(b) The provisions of this section are in addition to the provisions of the immigration laws now in force, and shall be enforced as a part of such laws, and all the penal or other provisions of such laws not inapplicable, shall apply to and be enforced in connection with the provisions of this section. An alien, although admissible under the provisions of this section, shall not be admitted to the United States if he is excluded by any provision of the immigration laws other than this section, and an alien, although admissible under the provisions of the immigration laws other than this section, shall not be admitted to the United States if he is excluded by any provision of this section.

(c) Terms defined in the Immigration Act of 1924 shall, when used in this section, have the meaning assigned to such terms in that Act.

(d) Pending the final and complete withdrawal of the sovereignty of the United States over the Philippine Islands, except as otherwise provided by this Act, citizens and corporations of the Philippine Islands shall enjoy in the United States and all places subject to its jurisdiction all of the rights and privileges which they respectively shall have enjoyed therein under the laws of the United States in force at the time of the inauguration of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands." Stat. 453, 462, 463; 53 Stat. 1230; 48 U. S. C. 1232, 1238.)

FEE FOR REGISTRY

(48

[Act of April 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 598), amending subd. (b), sec. 1, Act of March 2, 1929 (8 U. S. C. 106a), see p. 92.]

PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING OR ASSAULTING FEDERAL OFFICERS

Act approved May 18, 1934, as amended

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whoever shall kill, as defined in sections 273 and 274 of the Criminal Code, any United States marshal or deputy United States marshal or person employed to assist a United States marshal or deputy United States marshal, any officer or employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, post-office inspector, Secret Service operative, any officer or enlisted man of the Coast Guard, any employee of any United States penal or correctional institution, any officer, employee, agent, or other person in the service of the customs or of the internal revenue, any immigrant inspector or any immigration patrol inspector, any officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture or of the Department of the Interior designated by the Secretary of Agri

sa Section 2 of the Act of August 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 1230; 48 U. S. C. 1238). Section 8 of the Act of March 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 462-463; 48 U. S. C. 1238), was amended by adding subdivision (d) at the end thereof. For emigration of Filipinos from the United States, see Act of June 27, 1939, as amended, p. 104.

culture or the Secretary of the Interior to enforce any Act of Congress for the protection, preservation, or restoration of game and other wild birds and animals, any officer or employee of the National Park Service, any officer or employee of, or assigned to duty in, the field service of the Division of Grazing of the Department of the Interior, or any officer or employee of the Indian field service of the United States, while engaged in the performance of his official duties, or on account of the performance of his official duties, shall be punished as provided under section 275 of the Criminal Code.

SEC. 2. Whoever shall forcibly resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any person designated in section 1 hereof while engaged in the performance of his official duties, or shall assault him on account of the performance of his official duties, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and whoever, in the commission of any of the acts described in this section, shall use a deadly or dangerous weapon shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.54 (48 Stat. 780; 49 Stat. 1105, 1940; 54 Stat. 391; 18 U. S. C. 253.)

RELATING TO THE RECORD OF REGISTRY OF CERTAIN ALIENS [Act of June 8, 1934 (48 Stat. 926), amending subd. (a), sec. 1, Act of March 2, 1929 (8 U. S. C. 106a), see p. 93.]

THE ESTABLISHMENT, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF FOREIGN-TRADE ZONES. IN FORTS OF ENTRY OF THE UNITED STATES, TO EXPEDITE AND ENCOURAGE FOREIGN COMMERCE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Act approved June 18, 1934

COOPERATION OF BOARD WITH LOCAL AND FEDERAL AGENCIES

SEC. 9. The Board shall cooperate with the State, subdivision, and municipality in which the zone is located in the exercise of their police, sanitary, and other powers in and in connection with the free zone. It shall also cooperate with the United States Customs Service, the Post Office Department, the Public Health Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and such other Federal agencies as have jurisdiction in ports of entry described in section 2. (48 Stat. 1000; 19 U. S. C. 81i.)

AIRMAN TO INCLUDE PERSON IN CHARGE OF PARACHUTE INSPECTION

[Act of June 19, 1984 (48 Stat. 1115-1116), amending sec. 9 and subd. (b) sec. 11, Act of May 20, 1926 (49 U. S. C. 179, 181 (b)), incorporated at pp. 89 and 90.]

54 Act of June 13, 1940 (54 Stat. 391; 18 U. S. C. 253). This Act and the following Acts amended sec. 1, Act of May 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 780; 18 U. S. C. 253), without relation to officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service: Act of February 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1105; 18 U. S. C. 253), and the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1940; 18 U. S. C. 253). See also sec. 16, Act of Feb. 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 885-887; 8 U. S. C. 152), p. 17, for other penalties for interfering with an officer or employee of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the performance of duty.

TO PROVIDE MEANS BY WHICH CERTAIN FILIPINOS CAN
EMIGRATE FROM THE UNITED STATES

[Act of July 10, 1935 (49 Stat. 478-479), amended by the Acts of June 4, 1936 (49 Stat. 1462), May 14, 1937 (50 Stat. 165), and superseded by the Act of July 27, 1939 (48 U. S. C. 1251–1257), incorporated at p. 105.]

PROVIDING PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING OR ASSAULTING
FEDERAL OFFICERS

[Act of February 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1105), amending sec. 1. Act of May 18, 1934 (18 U. S. C. 253), see p. 101.]

ACT TO PROVIDE MEANS BY WHICH CERTAIN FILIPINOS CAN EMIGRATE FROM THE UNITED STATES

[Act of June 4, 1936 (49 Stat. 1462), amending sec. 6, Act of July 10, 1935 (48 U. S. C. 1256), which has been superseded by the Act of July 27, 1939, p. 105.1

ACT TO REORGANIZE THE COURTS IN THE DISTRICT OF

COLUMBIA

[Act of June 25, 1936 (49 Stat. 1921), amending Act of March 2, 1929 (24 U. S. C. 196a), incorporated at p. 93.]

ACT TO PROVIDE PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING OR ASSAULTING FEDERAL OFFICERS

[Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1940), amending sec. 1, Act of May 18, 1934 18 U. S. C. 253), see p. 101.]

REMOVAL AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE OF CERTAIN ALIENS WHO FALL INTO DISTRESS

[Act of May 14, 1937 (50 Stat. 164), amending sec. 23, Act of February 5, 1917 (2 U. S. C. 102, incorporated at p. 28.]

RESTRICTIONS ON NONQUOTA AND PREFERENCE-QUOTA IMMIGRANTS; IMMIGRANTS EXCEPTED FROM EXCLUSION FROM UNITED STATES; DEPORTATION OF ALIENS FOR OBTAINING VISAS THROUGH FRAUDULENT MARRIAGE

Act approved May 14, 1937

SEC. 1. [Amends subd. (f), sec. 9, Act of May 26, 1924 (43 Stat. 158; 8 U. S. C. 209 (f)), p. 47.]

SEC. 2. [Amends subd. (a), sec. 13, Act of May 26, 1924 (43 Stat. 161; 8 U. S. C. 213 (a)), p. 52.]

DEPORTATION OF ALIENS WHO HAVE OBTAINED VISAS THROUGH FRAUD BY CONTRACTING MARRIAGE SOLELY FOR THAT PURPOSE

SEC. 3. That any alien who at any time after entering the United States is found to have secured either non-quota or preferencequota visa through fraud, by contracting a marriage which, subsequent to entry into the United States, has been judicially annulled retroactively to date of marriage, shall be taken into custody and deported pursuant to the provisions of section 14 of the Immigration Act of 1924 on the ground that at time of entry he was not entitled to admission on the visa presented upon arrival in the United States. This section shall be effective whether entry was made before or after the enactment of this Act.

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