as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works and periodicals of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects for the library of the United States Engineer Incidental expenses. School; for incidental expenses of the school, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, telephone operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of and materials to repair public buildings and machinery; for unforeseen Traveling expenses. expenses; for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction: Provided, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Engineer School by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. Proviso. ENGINEER EQUIPMENT OF TROOPS: For pontoon material, tools, instruments, and supplies required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, including the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals, ninety thousand dollars. For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department_commanders, forty thousand dollars. CONTINGENCIES, ENGINEER DEPARTMENT, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: For contingent expenses incident to the operations of the Engineer Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. ORDNANCE SERVICE: For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department, in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; and for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. ORDNANCE STORES AMMUNITION: Manufacture and purchase of ammunition and materials therefor for small arms for reserve supply; ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers' Home in Washington, District of Columbia; ammunition for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, including National Soldiers' Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and soldiers' and sailors' state homes, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. SMALL-ARMS TARGET PRACTICE: Ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms and machine-gun target practice and instruction; marksmen's medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition, targets, target material, and other Blank ammunition for maneuvers. arms. Proviso. accessories may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and state soldiers' and sailors' orphans' homes, to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, provided the total value of the stores so issued to the educational institutions does not exceed thirty thousand dollars, one million dollars. For blank ammunition for use of troops participating in maneuver camps of instruction, seventy-five thousand dollars. MANUFACTURE OF ARMS: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, Manufacturing, etc., and issuing arms at the national armories, one million dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to sell, at the mitted. prices fixed and published by the Chief of Ordnance, to the Government of Cuba, for the use of its organized troops, not to exceed ten thousand United States magazine rifles of the present service model, with arm chests, arm racks, appendages, bayonets, and gun slings therefor, and such quantities of spare parts for the rifles, and of bayonet scabbards, articles of cavalry-horse equipment, and the present ordnance equipment of the soldier as may be desired by that Government for the equipment of its troops. ORDNANCE STORES AND SUPPLIES: For overhauling, cleaning, Preserving, etc., ord nance. coast artillery. repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; for Equipments. infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, eight hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase of material, equipment, books of instruction, Purchases for state range finders, and fire-control equipment for the instruction and use of state coast artillery organizations, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That in time of war, or threatened war, such equipment may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be withdrawn from of war. armories or other places where it is in use by the state coast artillery organizations, and may be used in the fortifications of the United States. Proviso. Withdrawal in time Trophy, medals, and NATIONAL TROPHY AND MEDALS FOR RIFLE CONTESTS: That for the Rifle contests. purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes prizes. to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the national guard or organized militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice, including the reimbursement of necessary expenses of members of the national board for the promotion of rifle practice, to be expended for the purposes herein before prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars. Automatic rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, and test of automatic rifles, including their sights and equipments, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ordnance contracts: Hereafter whenever contracts which are not to be performed within sixty days are made on behalf of the Government by the Chief of Ordnance, or by officers under him authorized to make them, and are in excess of five hundred dollars in amount, such contracts shall be reduced to writing and signed by the contracting parties with their names at the end thereof. In all other cases contracts shall be prepared under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Chief of Ordnance. Approved, March 23, 1910. Automatic rifles. Ordnance contracts. March 24, 1910. [S. 6721.] [Public, No. 103.] Mississippi River. Marie Railway Com- CHAP. 123.-An Act Permitting the building of a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at Bemidji, in the State of Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is Paul and Sault Sainte hereby granted to the Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Sault Sainte Marie pany may bridge, at Railway Company, a railway corporation organized under the laws of the States of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, from a point on the east bank of said river in lot two of section sixteen, township one hundred and forty-six, range thirty-three west, to a point on the west bank of said river in lot one of said section sixteen, all in Beltrami County, Minnesota, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. Vol. 34, p. 84. Amendment. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 24, 1910. March 24, 1910. [H. R. 12397.] [Public, No. 104.] sula, Pa. permitted on. CHAP. 124. An Act Granting certain rights and privileges to the department of fisheries of the State of Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Presque Isle penin- States of America in Congress assembled, That the department of fisheries State fish hatchery of the State of Pennsylvania is hereby granted the right to enter upon and occupy the following-described land of the United States, known as "Presque Isle peninsula," in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, to wit, all that part of said peninsula lying and being between the east line of the Erie waterworks lands and a line substantially parallel with and adjacent to the west line of the lands of the Presque Isle light-house, on the north shore of said peninsula, and the line of the present walk leading from said light-house to the north shore of Misery Bay, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining thereon a hatchery for the propagation of game and food fishes, and in pursuance thereof to improve the lands and ponds and reclaim marsh lands thereon; to construct buildings, houses, and sheds, and docks and approaches from Presque Isle Bay to said lands and to the ponds and hatchery buildings on said lands; to lay out, build, and maintain roads and walks in connection therewith, and plant trees and shrubs thereon for the preservation thereof: Provided, That the occupation and use of the said lands for the aforesaid purposes shall in no manner affect the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to said lands, nor the government right of passage over and across the lands so occupied; and the said department of fisheries of the State of Pennsylvania shall do nothing on said lands that may injuriously affect the harbor of Erie or the peninsula of Presque Isle as a protection for Nonliability for the harbor: Provided further, That the United States shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever that may at any time occur to the improvements of the department of fisheries of Pennsylvania on said Approval of plans, lands: And provided further, That the exercise of the rights hereby granted and the execution of any work on said lands hereby authorized shall be in accordance with such plans and specifications as may be approved by the Secretary of War and subject to such further stipulations and conditions as he may prescribe. Proviso. fected. damages. etc. Amendment, etc. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 24, 1910. CHAP. 126.—An Act To authorize the Copper River and Northwestern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Copper River, in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes. March 26, 1910. [S. 6286.] [Public, No. 105.] Copper River, Alaska. Copper River and Northwestern Railway Company may bridge, below Kotsina River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Copper River and Northwestern Railway Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Nevada, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a bridge and its approaches thereto across the Copper River, in the district of Alaska, below the mouth of the Kotsina River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, about one and one-half miles north of the mouth of the Chitina River, on said company's line of railroad designated and generally known as the Chitina Branch of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the Vol. 34, p. 84. construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six; and are further authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a temporary bridge at or near the same point in accordance with the provisions of said Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters, said temporary bridge to be removed upon the completion of the bridge first above referred to. Temporary struc ture. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, March 26, 1910. CHAP. 127.-An Act Authorizing the village of Taylors Falls, Minnesota, and the village of Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin, to construct a bridge across the Saint Croix River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the village of Taylors Falls, Minnesota, and the village of Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin, are hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free wagon and foot bridge, with necessary approaches, across the Saint Croix River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, between the said villages in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,' approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. March 26, 1910. [S. 6851.] [Public, No. 106.] Saint Croix River. and Saint Croix Falls, Wis., may bridge. Taylors Falls, Minn., Vol. 34, p. 84. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, March 26, 1910. CHAP. 128.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section two of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: March 26, 1910. [H. R. 15816.] [Public, No. 107.] Immigration. Vol. 34, p. 898, amended. Classes of aliens excluded. "SEC. 2. That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded Idiots, insane, etc. persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons 24768°-61-2-PT 1-7 Paupers, diseased persons, etc. mists, anarchists, etc. curers, etc. Contract etc. not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; Criminals, polyga- persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of pubProstitutes, pro- lic officials; prostitutes, or women or girls coming into the United States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who are supported by or receive in whole or in part the proceeds of prostitution; persons who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women or girls for the purpose of prostitution or for laborers, any other immoral purpose; persons hereinafter called contract laborers who have been induced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, expressed or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled; those who have been, within one year from the date of application for admission to Assisted emigrants. the United States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described; any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes and that said ticket or passage was not paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government, either directly Children unaccom- or indirectly; all children under sixteen years of age unaccompanied by one or both of their parents, at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor or under such regulations as he may from time to time prescribe: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall exclude, Political offenders. if otherwise admissible, persons convicted of an offense purely political, not involving moral turpitude: Provided further, That the provisions of this section relating to the payments for tickets or passage by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government shall not apply to the tickets or passage of aliens in immediate and continuous transit through the United States to foreign contiguous territory: And provided further, That skilled labor may be imported if labor of like kind unemployed can not be found in Professionals and this country: And provided further, That the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants." panied. Provisos. Aliens in transit. Skilled laborers. servants. SEC. 2. That section three of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 3. That the importation into the United States of any alien for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose is hereby forbidden; and whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or attempt to import, into the United States, any alien for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, or whoever shall hold or attempt to hold any alien for any such purpose in pursuance of such illegal importation, or whoever shall keep, maintain, control, support, employ, or harbor in any house or other place, for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, in pursuance of such illegal importation, any alien, shall, in every such case be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof |