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876 SIXTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29. 1917. Government of the United States, or of all forms of law, or who disbelieve in or are opposed to organized government, or who advocate the assassination of public officials, or who advocate or teach the unlawful destruction of property; persons who are members of or aiiiliated with any organization entertaining and teaching disbelief in or opposition to organized government, or who advocate or teach the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their oihcial character, or ,,;‘§§,E“""“· Y'°°“" who advocate or teach the unlawful destruction of property; prostitutes, or persons coming into the United States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who directly or indirectly procure or attempt to procure or import prostitutes or persons for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who are supported by or receive in whole or in part °““"°‘ I°“°'°”· the proceeds of prostitution; persons hereinafter called contract laborers, who have been induced, assisted, encouraged, or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment, whether such offers or promises are true or false, or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled; persons who have come in consequence of advertisements for laborers printed, ublished, or distributed in a foreign country; persons likely to tu?§,,“;°°d “u°°“ ”“ become a public charge; persons who have been deported under any of the provisions of this Act, and who may again seek admission within one year from the date of such deportation, unless prior to their reembarkation at a foreign port or their attempt to be admitted aumd _ ts from foreign contiguous territory the Secretary of Labor shall have aa. www ’ consented to their reapplying for admission; persons whose tickets or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who are assisted by others to come, unless it is atlirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such persons do not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes; persons whose ticket or passage is paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign Government, either directly or indirectly; stowaways, except that any such stowaway, if otherwise admissible, may be admitted in the discretion of the Sec- ,,,2,,°°,{;$g}P;*g§**d°¤¤· retary of Labor; all children under sixteen years of age, unaccompanied by or not coming to one or both of their arents, except that any such children may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Labor, be admitted if in his opinion they are not likely to become a ublic

 charge and are otherwise eligible; unless otherwise rovided for by

existing treaties, persons who are natives of islands not possessed by the United States adjacent to the Continent of Asia, situate south of the twentieth parallel latitude north west of the one hundred and sixtieth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich, and north of the tenth parallel of latitude south, or who are natives of anv country, province, or dependency situate on the Continent of Asih west of the one hundred and tenth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich and east of the fiftieth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich and south of the fiftieth parallel of latitude north, except that portion of said territory situate between the iiftieth and the Ncmstmgmmsm sixtyjourth meridians of longitude east from Greenwich and the mma. tpventy-fourth and th1I't§'·€lgl1th parallels of latitude north, and no Q . a ien now in an wa excluded from or revented fr· ' ag??$;;tL°°iiYl p°°1°m' the United State; shall be admitted to, the {United State(si.m Slplfgrpggj v1sion_next foregoing, however, shall not apply to persons of the following status or occupations: Government officers, ministers or religious teachers, missionaries, lawyers, phvsicians, chemists civil engineers, teachers, students, authors, artists, merchants, and trdvelers