Yes. this new floor is what It is to be. it is intended to put on this third floor. Now. the purpose of that is to provide adequate facilities for carrying on what is known as the work of special inquiry. The law says that every immigrant not clearly found. to be entitled to land shall be held for special inquiry. Oftentimes we have 5.000 people a day coming in. especially during April and May. there may be 5.000 a day several days in succession. and while I was commissioner before. from 1902 to 1905. I found we had to hold as many as 15 per cent of those people for special inquiry. that would make 750 in one day.
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