and compare certificates and lists.
sengers, comparing the certificates with the list and with the passengers; no passenger shall be allowed to land in the United States from
such vessel in violation of law.
Forfeiture of vessels for violation of provisions of act Sec. 10. That every vessel whose master shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed forfeited to the United States, and shall be liable to seizure and condemnation in any district of the United States into which such vessel may enter or in which she may be found.
Misdemeanor. Sec. 11. That any person who shall knowingly bring into or cause to be brought into the United States by land, or who shall knowingly aid or abet the same, or aid or abet the landing in the United States from any vessel of any Chinese person not lawfully entitled to enter the United States, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on Penalty. conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year.
Chinese not entitled to residence in United States to be removed by direction of the President. Sec. 12. That no Chinese person shall be permitted to enter the United States by land without producing to the proper officer of customs the certificate in this act required of Chinese persons seeking to land from a vessel. And any Chinese person found unlawfully within the United direction of the States shall be caused to be removed therefrom to the country from President. whence he came, by direction of the President of the United States, and at the cost of the United States, after being brought before some justice, judge, or commissioner of a court of the United States and found to be one not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States.
Officers of Chinese Government exempt. Sec. 13. That this act shall not apply to diplomatic and other officers of the Chinese Government traveling upon the business of that government, whose credentials shall be taken as equivalent to the certificate in this act mentioned, and shall exempt them and their body and household servants from the provisions of this act as to other Chinese persons.
Admission of Chinese to citizenship prohibited. Sec. 14. That hereafter no State court or court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship; and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 15. That the words “Chinese laborers”, wherever used in this act, shall be construed to mean both skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.
- Approved, May 6, 1882.
CHAP. 127.—An act for the erection of a public building at Denver, Colorado. May 8, 1882.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, Denver, Colo.
Public building Site.
and he is hereby, authorized and directed to procure a proper site and
cause to be erected thereon a suitable building, with tire-proof vaults, in
the city of Denver, Colorado, for the accommodation of the United States
district and circuit courts, post-office, land-office, and other government
offices in said city, at a Cost. cost not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, including cost of site, which site shall be such as will afford an open
space between the building hereby authorized and any other building of
not less than forty feet; and the sum of one hundred thousand dollars Appropriation.
is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise
Appropriation. appropriated, for the purpose herein mentioned: Proviso.
Title.Provided, That no money
shall be used or applied for the purpose mentioned until a valid title to
the land for the site of such building shall be vested in the United States;
and no expenditure of money shall be made on the building proposed to
be erected on said site until the State of Colorado shall duly release and
relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess
said site or the property of the United States that may be thereon, and
shall over the same during the time that the United
States shall remain the owner thereof.
- Approved, May 8, 1882.
