Let me read. It is not possible that we can not understand the English language when it is spread out before us in as simple a form as this is. The first provision is: That there shall be levied. collected. and paid a duty of $3 for each and every alien immigrant not a citizen of the Dominion of Canada. the Republic of Cuba. or of the Republic of Mexico. or a bona fide resident of the said*. Dominion or Republics for one year continuously prior to application for admission. Now. can anything be more clear than that if we enact this statute with those words it would not have any application whatever to persons coming as alien immigrants from Canada. Mexico. and Cuba into the United States? They are expressly exempted.
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