No. suits are being brought by the steamship companies for bringing emigrants over to this country. as they collected the headmoney from the immigrants before they shipped on theother side. and paid it over to the State or to this commission to be used as a fund to protect the immigrants. and it was used for that purpose. The Supreme Court of the United States has declared that our State law. as interfering with commerce. is void. Now. the steamship companies bring suit to recover the money back. We say they have no equity. and if paid it should bepaid back to the immigrantsthemselves. They paid this as part of their fare to the steamship lines that brought them over. Those lines now seek to recover it back from the city and the emigration commission. This billdesigns to ratify the regulations of the State for collecting this money. in order to protect these people from being made to pay it back.
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