11. He shall appoint county correspondents, who shall report to him from time to time as may be desired.

12. He shall collect specimens of wood suitable for manufacture and other purposes, and specimens of agricultural, mineral, phosphate, and marl deposits of the State; cause correct analysis of such as may be deemed expedient to be made, and recorded in a substantial book to be kept for this purpose.

13. He shall also, as soon as practicable, prepare a convenient hand book, with necessary illustrated maps, which shall contain all necessary information as to the mines, mineral, forest, soil, and other products, climate, water, water power for the establishing of factories, land, flowers, fisheries, mountains, streams, and all other statistics as are best adapted to the giving of proper information and the attraction of advantages which the State affords to immigrants, and shall make illustrated expositions thereof whenever practicable at international and State expositions.

14. He shall make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to earry into effect provisions of this chapter.

SEC. 10. The commissioner shall make and submit to the governor, on or before the 10th day of January each year, a report showing all expenditures of the bureau for the preceding year, and shall make a full and comprehensive report of the scope of the work and expenditures of the bureau to each session of the legislature within ten days of the convening thereof.

SEC. 11. In order to facilitate the collection and collation of the accurate information of the resources of the State along all lines, the head of the several departments of the State government and of the State institutions are hereby required to furnish accurately such information as may be at their command to the commissioner when called upon for same; and the commissioner is hereby empowered to enter manufacturing establishments chartered by the State in prosecution of this work, and that the corporations operating the same shall furnish such information as may not be injurious to their business, when requested to furnish same by the commissioner. The commissioner and his clerks shall have the right to accept and use free transportation over steamship, steamboat, and railway lines.

SEC. 12. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, April 14, 1906.

EXTRACTS FROM MISSISSIPPI CODE, 1906.

[Mississippi Code of 1906, p. 1011.]

3587 (3164). Vessels bringing pauper immigrants, children, etc.—If any person commanding a ship, vessel, steamboat, or other water craft, shall import into this State, or bring to the shores or within the limits thereof any infant, lunatic, maimed, aged, or infirm person, or vagrant who is likely to become chargeable on the county, on the requisition of the supervisor of the district or the mayor of any city, town, or village, the captain, master, or commander of such ship, vessel, steamboat, or other water craft shall enter into bond, with sufficient sureties, payable to the county, conditioned to in

demnify such county against all charges that may be incurred in the support and care of such person; and any captain, master, or commander failing or refusing to give the bond required shall forfeit and pay to the county the sum of two hundred dollars for each infant, lunatic, maimed, aged, or infirm person, or vagrant so brought into the State, to be recovered by action.

3588 (3165). Master of vessel landing alien passengers.-When any ship, vessel, or steamboat shall arrive at any port or harbor with alien passengers on board who are to be landed or left, and who may become a charge as paupers, the master or commanding officer of the vessel shall, before such passengers or any of them leave the ship, vessel, or steamboat, deposit with the supervisor of the district where the passengers are to be landed or left a list of their names, and shall forthwith enter into bond, with sufficient sureties, payable to the county, in a sufficient penalty, with condition to indemnify the county from all expenses which may arise from supporting or maintaining such aliens; and in default of such bond the captain, master, or commander may be committed by any justice of the peace or mayor of any city, town, or village until the bond be executed; and, moreover, the captain, master, or commander shall be liable to be indicted, and on conviction shall be fined in the sum of one hundred dollars for each person landed in violation of this section; but the board of supervisors on investigation of the matter may dispense with the bond.

MISSOURI

DIGEST OF IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

Act of 1864-65.-The laws of 1864-65, page 44, embody the first statute enacted by Missouri relative to the subject of immigration. It is prefaced by the following general review of conditions requiring it:

The time has arrived when the subject of immigration should receive the immediate services and unremitting attention of every well-meaning citizen of our State in order to repair as rapidly as possible the losses of population sustained through the desolation of war, by the introduction of a people recommended by their loyalty, their industry, and their intelligence. And in order to secure this end every inducement should be offered that class of immigrants, come from what portion of the civilized world they may. And the development of our agricultural and mineral resources should be thus encouraged.

The board of immigration shall be composed of five members, including the governor and secretary of state, ex officio, and three other persons appointed by the governor.

It shall be the duty of the board to do everything which may enhance and encourage immigration to our State from whatever source procurable. Also to cooperate with the Federal Bureau of Immigration; and to make regular reports to the legislature with reliable data for the guidance of future legislation on this subject. The board shall have power to publish pamphlets, essays, and articles describing the developed and undeveloped agricultural and mineral resources of the State, the facilities for navigation, the railroad connections and widespread commerce. It shall also be their duty to distribute them in localities in which they may prove "beneficial and useful for the promotion of immigration to our State."

The board shall have power to appoint agents for points in this country and in Europe "for the purpose of aiding and advising immigration."

The board shall hold meetings in St. Louis at least once each quarter, the governor presiding. Other officers shall be elected by ballot from its members.

The treasurer shall give bond in the sum of $10,000.

To supplement the State's appropriation of $4,000 the board is authorized" to open books and solicit contributions and endowments of money from corporations, manufacturers, merchants, and all persons who are immediately and directly benefited by the flow of immigration."

Act of 1867. The laws of 1867, page 120, authorize "the formation of immigration societies of five or more persons for the purpose of aiding, encouraging, or inducing immigration into such county, city, or town as they may designate in their articles of association."

Act of 1875.-The act of 1875, page 77, amends the general law by providing that the "president of any incorporated association for the encouragement of immigration or the better protection of immigrants shall be ex officio a member of the board of immigration."

Act of 1879.-The act of 1879, page 107, repeals prior acts relating to immigration and establishes a board of immigration consisting of three commissioners to be appointed by the governor. Their term of office shall be four years. The president of the board shall be selected by the governor and designated" state superintendent of immigration.' He shall receive a salary of $1,800 a year, but “the two commissioners shall draw pay only for their actual expenses in attending meetings of the board." The board shall maintain an office for the public business and for the exhibition of specimens of state products.

The commissioners shall qualify within twenty days after appointment, and each shall give bond for $5,000 "conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties." It shall be the duty of the commissioners to use all available means to properly represent the advantages afforded by Missouri to persons desiring to secure homes in the West, and they may employ any necessary agents for the purpose. The board may advertise in the papers of the Eastern States or of Europe.

The board shall have power to make contracts with transportation companies for a low rate of fare for immigrants, and to prepare for their reception and temporary accommodation.

It shall be the duty of the board to compile statistics and publish literature describing the resources and interests of the State with any other information of interest to immigrants. It shall be the duty of the board to secure from the State's schools and through clerks of the county courts any information the publicity of which will exercise a favorable influence in the State's interest, and also to "solicit subscriptions of money and other material aid from persons and corporations, to be used in promoting immigration." Biennial reports shall be made to the governor. Auxiliary boards of immigration may be organized in the several counties.

Laws of 1901 (an act to prohibit the importation of afflicted, indigent, and vicious children). The laws of 1901, page 132, "prohibit the importation into the State by any association or individual of afflicted, indigent, or vicious children." The state board of charities and corrections shall require that no child shall be brought into the State and placed in a " family home for adoption "without a guaranty that such child has no incurable disease and is not of feeble mind or vicious character. If any child so imported shall become a public charge within five years, it must be removed from the State. And any person receiving and placing, for an association or for an individual, any child coming under this prohibition shall be subject to fine and imprisonment." The necessity of this act arises from "the fact that the New York Children's Aid Society is pouring carloads of children into the State without properly supervising them, thereby burdening the Commonwealth.

The present law (prior acts repealed).-In 1909 prior existing immigration laws were repealed, and a general act, page 550, was passed, creating a board of immigration.