I am readinglrom thestatuteitself. I have read from the statute of July 4. 1864. to show what that law was for. I have read this part of section 5 to show that it was not for the purpose of inducing immigrants to come and settle along the lines of the railways then being constructed to the Pacific Ocean and throughout the great West. it was not for the purpose of settling up the untilled lands of the United States. but it was to put cmploys in manulacturing establishments. That continued to be the law until February 25. 1885. On tlre 25th day of February. 1885. there was enacted a law entitled "An act to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States. its Territories. and the District of Columbia." The law of July 4. 1864. was made for the encouragement of the importation under contracts made in foreign countries of the servile labor of the world. to bring those laborers here and pnt them in the manufacturing establishments. and it offered a bounty upon them practically.
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