The following is a list of harmless coloring-matters : Black. Chinese black. Blues. Berlin blue, indigo, litmus, Prussian blue, saffron blue, ultramarine. Brown. Caramel. Greens. Chlorophyll, as spinach juice, mixtures of yellow colors with blue. A mixture of Prussian blue, Berlin blue, and Persian berries gives a green rivaling in brilliancy Schweinfurt's green. Reds. Annotto, Brazil lac, carmine, carmine lac, cochineal, orseille, the juice of beets and red berries, such as cherries and currants, etc. Yellows. Avignon berries, curcuma, fustet, marigold, Persian berries, quercitron, safflower, saffron, turmeric. Chalk and the ochres. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. CHINESE EXCLUSION AND REGISTRATION. Act approved May 5, 1892 -"The Geary Bill." Sec. 1. Chinese exclusion extended ten Sec. 6. Registration of Chinese by collectors of internal revenue. years. 2. Removal of Chinese illegally in the 7. Secretary of the Treasury to make United States. regulations. 3. Chinese arrested, to prove lawful S. Penalty for forging certificates. 9. Fees for services by collectors of internal revenue. Limit. residence. 4. Punishment for illegal residence. 5. Bail not allowed in habeas corpus proceedings. Act approved November 3, 1893-" The McCreary Bill." Sec. Sec. 1. Amends Sec. 6 of the act of May 5, 2. Defines terms, Chinese "Laborer" 26 1892 ("The Geary Bill "), and No felon allowed to register. 66 and Merchant;" gives proof required of Chinese merchant seeking to reënter the United States. Photographs required in certificates of residence. THE GEARY BILL." An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States, approved May 5, 1892. sion extended SEC. 1. That all laws now in force prohibiting and regulating the coming into this country of Chinese excluChinese persons and persons of Chinese de- ten years. scent are hereby continued in force for a period of ten years from the passage of this act. SEC. 2. That any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent, when convicted and adjudged under any of said laws to be not lawfully entitled to be or remain in Removal of Chinese illegally in the the United States, shall be removed from the United States to China, unless he or they shall make it appear to the justice, judge, or commissioner United States. before whom he or they are tried that he or they are subjects or citizens of some other country, in which case he or they shall be removed from the United States to such country: Provided, That in any case where such other country of which such Chi Proviso as to ing citizenship nese person shall claim to be a citizen or sub coun tries. ject shall demand any tax as a condition of the removal of such person to that country, he or she shall be removed to China. SEC. 3. That any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent arrested under the provisions of this act, or the acts hereby extended, shall be adjudged to be unlawfully within the United States, unless such person shall establish, by affirmative proof, to the satisfaction of such justice, judge, or commissioner, his lawful right to remain in the United States. Person arrested must prove lawful residence. SEC. 4. That any such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent convicted and adjudged to be not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a period of not exceeding one year, and thereafter removed from the United States, as herein before provided. SEC. 5. That after the passage of this act, on an application to any judge or court of the United States in the first instance for a writ of habeas corpus by a Chinese person seeking to land in the United States, to whom that privilege has been denied, no bail shall be allowed, and such application shall be heard and determined promptly without unnecessary delay. Punishment for illegal residence. Bail not allowed in habeas corpus proceedings. without certifi year to be ar SEC. 6. And it shall be the duty of all Chinese laborers within the limits of the United States at the time of the passage of this act, and who are entitled to remain in the United States, to apply to the collector of internal revenue of their respective districts, within one year after the passage of this act, for a certificate of residence; and any Chinese laborer within the limits of the United States who shall neglect, fail, or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act, or who, after one year from the passage hereof, shall be Chinese found found within the jurisdiction of the United cate after one States without such certificate of residence, rested. shall be deemed and adjudged to be unlawfully within the United States, and may be arrested by any United States customs official, collector of internal revenue or his deputies, United States marshal or his deputies, and taken before a United States judge, whose duty it shall be to order that he be deported from the United States as herein before provided, unless he shall establish clearly to the satisfaction of said judge that by reason of accident, sickness, or other unavoidable cause, he has been unable to procure his certificate, and to the satisfaction of the court, and by at least one credible white witness, that he was a resident of the United States at the time of the passage of this act; and if Trial. upon the hearing it shall appear that he is so entitled to a certificate, it shall be granted upon his paying the cost. Should it appear that said Chinaman had procured a certificate which has been lost Loss of ceror destroyed, he shall be detained and judgment suspended a reasonable time to enable him to procure a duplicate from the officer granting it, and in such cases the cost of said arrest and trial shall be in tificate. Certificates of residence to be obtained from collector of in within one year, by Chi nese laborers. persons not the discretion of the court. And any Chinese person, Certificates for other than a Chinese laborer, having a right laborers. to be and remain in the United States, desiring such certificate as evidence of such right, may apply for and receive the same without charge. SEC. 7. That immediately after the passage of this act the Secretary of the Treasury shall make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the efficient execution of this act, and shall prescribe the necessary forms and furnish the necessary blanks to enable collectors of internal revenue to issue the certificates required hereby, and make such provisions that certificates may be procured in localities No charge for convenient to the applicants. Such certificertificate. cates shall be issued without charge to the applicant, and shall contain the name, age, local residence, and occupation of the applicant, and such other description of the applicant as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and a duplicate thereof shall be filed in the office of the collector of internal revenue for the district within which such Chinaman makes application. Secretary of the Treasury to make regulations. Contents of certificate. SEC. 8. That any person who shall knowingly and falsely alter or substitute any name for the name written in such certificate or forge such certificate, or knowingly utter any forged or fraudulent certificate, or falsely personate any person named in such certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not more than five years. SEC. 9. The Secretary of the Treasury may authorFees for ser- ize the payment of such compensation in the vices by col lector. nature of fees to the collectors of internal rev Penalty for forging certificates, etc. |