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Forty-Third Congress. Session II. Ch.141. March 3, 1975
The Page Law
An act supplementary to the acts in relation to immigration
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Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress-assembled, That in
determining whether the immigration of any subject
of China, Japan, or any Oriental country, to the
United States, is free and voluntary, as provided
by section two thousand one hundred and sixty two
of the Revised Code, title
"Immigration," it shall be the duty of
the consul-general or consul of the United States
residing at the port from which it is proposed to
convey such subjects, in any vessels enrolled or
licensed in the United States, or any port within
the same, before delivering to the masters of any
such vessels the permit or certificate provided
for in such section, in ascertain for a term of
service within the United States, for lewd and
immoral purposes; and if there be such contract or
agreement, the said consul-general or consul shall
not deliver the required permit or certificate.
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SEC.3. That the importation into
the United States of women for the purposes of
prostitution is hereby forbidden; and all
contracts and agreements in relation thereto, made
in advance or in pursuance of illegal importation
and purposes, are hereby declared void; and
whoever shall knowingly and willfully hold, or
attempt to hold, any woman to such purposes, in
pursuance of such illegal importation and contract
or agreement, shalled be deemed guilty of a
felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be
imprisoned not exceeding five years and pay a fine
not exceeding five thousand dollars.
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SEC.5. That it shall be unlawful
for aliens of the following classes to immigrate
into the United States, namely, persons who are
undergoing sentence for conviction in their own
country of felonious crimes other than political
or growing out of or the result of such political
offenses, and women "imported for the
purposes of prostitution." Every vessel
arriving in the United States may be inspected
under the direction of the collector of the port
at which it arrives, if he shall have reason to
believe that such obnoxious persons are on board;
and the officer making such inspection shall
certify the result thereof to the master or other
person in charge of such vessel, designating in
such certificate are person or persons, if any
there be, ascertained by him to be of either of
the classes whose importaion is hereby
forbidden.....
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