Rule 31. ATTORNEYS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVES. SUBDIVISION 1. Admission to practice.-No person who has been convicted of the commission of a crime or misdemeanor deemed by the bureau to involve moral turpitude, or who is disbarred from practice before any court of record in the United States, shall be permitted to appear as an attorney on behalf of an alien. Any person desiring to appear on behalf of an alien may be required to submit proof to show that he is a person of good character and reputation. Such proof, if and when required, shall be submitted to the immigration official in charge at the port or place where the person intends to engage in practice, who will forward it to the bureau for determination in the event it fails to satisfy him; or, if the person intends to practice before the bureau or the department, to the Commissioner General of Immigration. An attorney or representative may also be required to display his authority to represent an alien. SUBD. 2. Change of representative. In appeal and warrant proceedings but one person of record representing the interests of the alien will be recognized. Where an alien employs more than one attorney or representative, such representations as are offered must be submitted through the attorney or representative of record. A change of attorney or representative on the part of an alien will be recognized only upon the withdrawal of the original representative of record and the substitution of his successor by formal appearance in writing. SUBD. 3. Disbarment of attorneys.-Any attorney or person appearing on behalf of an alien applying for admission, or on behalf of an alien already residing in this country and against whom deportation proceedings have been instituted, who shall charge excessive fees, or indulge in unconscionable, unseemly, or unprofessional conduct in his relations either with the alien he has been employed to represent, or with the officials before whom he may have occasion to appear, will do so at the risk of either temporary or permanent disbarment from practice before the department, the Bureau of Immigration, or any immigration station of the United States. Rule 32. POSTING OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. Upon application by any transportation company the bureau will furnish a summary of the act of February 5, 1917, in English, a posting of which, in appropriate foreign languages, will be regarded as an observance of the spirit of section 8 of the act of March 3, 1893. Certificates in relation to posting of the immigration laws and other matters, which, under said law, transportation companies must file, shall be filed with the bureau on January 1 and July 1 each year. Rule 33. SERVICE UNIFORMS. Officers and employees of the Immigration Service, whether stationed at ports of entry or elsewhere, shall wear, while on duty, the uniform prescribed by the bureau, unless otherwise specially directed in writing. Rule 34. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Correspondence and reports shall be sent through official channels addressed to the Commissioner General of Immigration, Washington, D. C. Telegrams shall be addressed "Immigration Bureau, Washington, D. C."; and in telegraphing, the code provided by the bureau shall be used to the fullest extent possible. Rule 35. ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICTS. For convenience in enforcing both the immigration laws and the Chinese-exclusion laws, the territory within which immigration officials are located is divided into districts, under the jurisdiction of commissioners of immigration or inspectors in charge, numbered, defined, and with headquarters fixed, as follows: York Harbor. 4 Commissioner of im- Philadelphia Immi 5 migration. .....do... gration Station, Baltimore, Md. 6 Inspector in charge.. Norfolk, Va....... Jacksonville, Fla...... Extent of district. Eastern Canadian seaports and Canadian border east of the easterly line of Montana. New England States, including port of Boston and subports of Portland, New Bedford, and Providence. New York and New Jersey; immigration matters only. New York and New Jersey; Chinese matters only. Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware; port of Philadelphia. Maryland and District of Columbia; port of Baltimore and subport of Washington. Virginia and North Carolina; port of Norfolk and subport of Newport News. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina; port of Jacksonville and subports of Savannah, Brunswick, Tampa, Miami, Key West, Pensacola, Mobile, and Charleston. New Orleans, La...... Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee; port of New Orleans and subports of Gulfport and Pascagoula. 9 Inspector in charge.. Galveston, Tex.... The port of Galveston and subports of Port Arthur Ohio and Kentucky; substations at Toledo and Illinois, Indiana, southern Michigan, and Wiscon- Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, western Nebraska, Southern Montana; substation, Havre. States of Washington and Idaho, and Canadian Oregon; port of Portland and subport of Astoria. Porto Rico; port of San Juan and subports of Ponce Territory of Hawaii, including all ports. Texas, except portion comprising district No. 9; New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California, including seaports and border stations. A. CAMINETTI, Commissioner General. Approved. W. B. WILSON, Secretary. APPENDIX LAWS NOT REPEALED OR REENACTED BY THE IMMIGRATION ACT OF FEBRUARY 5, 1917. ESTABLISHING THE IMMIGRANT FUND. [Act of August 3, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 214).] SECTION 1. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of fifty cents for each and every passenger not a citizen of the United States who shall come by steam or sail vessel from a foreign port to any port within the United States. The said duty shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port to which such passenger shall come, or if there be no collector at such port, then to the collector of customs nearest thereto, by the master, owner, agent, or consignee of every such vessel, within twenty-four hours after the entry thereof into such port. The money thus collected shall be paid into the United States Treasury and shall constitute a fund to be called the immigrant fund and shall be used, under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, to defray the expense of regulating immigration under this act and for the care of immigrants arriving in the United States, for the relief of such as are in distress, and for the general purposes and expenses of carrying this act into effect. The duty imposed by this section shall be a lien upon the vessels which shall bring such passengers into the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against the owner or owners of such vessels, and the payment of such duty may be enforced by any legal or equitable remedy: Provided, That no greater sum shall be expended for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, at any port, than shall have been collected at such port.1 PROHIBITING IMPORTATION OF LABORERS UNDER CONTRACT. SEC. 2. That all contracts or agreements, express or implied, parol or special, which may hereafter be made by and between any person, company, partnership, or corporation, and any foreigner or foreigners, alien or aliens, to perform labor or service or having reference to the performance of labor or service by any person in the United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia, previous to the migration or importation of the person or persons whose labor 1 See sec. 2, act Feb. 5, 1917. 87 or service is contracted for into the United States, shall be utterly void and of no effect.1 AUTHORIZING PAYMENT TO INFORMER IN CASES OF VIOLATION OF CONTRACTLABOR LAW. [Act of October 19, 1888 (25 Stat. L., 566).] SECTION 1. * * * That the act approved February twentysixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia," be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to authorize the Secretary of Labor to pay to an informer who furnishes original information that the law has been violated, such a share of the penalties recovered as he may deem reasonable and just, not exceeding fifty per centum, where it appears that the recovery was had in consequence of the information thus furnished. SEC. 7. That the office of Superintendent of Immigration is hereby created and established, and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized and directed to appoint such officer, whose salary shali be four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. The Superintendent of Immigration shall be an officer in the Department of Labor, under the control and supervision of the Secretary of Labor, to whom he shall make annual reports in writing of the transactions of his office, together with such special reports, in writing, as the Secretary of Labor shall require. The Secretary shall provide the superintendent with a suitably furnished office in the city of Washington, and with such books of record and facilities for the discharge of the duties of his office as may be necessary. He shall have a chief clerk at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and two first-class clerks.2 AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT TO SUSPEND IMMIGRATION FROM COUNTRIES IN WHICH CHOLERA OR OTHER INFECTIOUS OR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES EXIST. * * [Act of February 15, 1893 (27 Stat. L., 449).] * * SEC. 7. That whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the President that by reason of the existence of cholera, or other infectious or contagious diseases, in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of the same into the United States, and that notwithstanding the quarantine defense this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce the same is demanded, in the interest of the public health, the President shall have power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and prop 1 See secs. 3, 5, 6, and 7, act of Feb. 5, 1917. 2 See sec. 1, act Mar. 2, 1895, and sec. 23, act Feb. 5, 1917. |