We have a provision further on in the bill for that. It has been found that ships have been actually engaged in bringing aliens over as sailors. And it has been held by our courts that an alien seaman would escape the examination and escape the head tax and escape all the restrictions the law threw around other aliens. Now. this is for the purpose of remedying that. We have several sections toward the end of the bill requiring either ship lists or manifests of all thecrew. those given the protection required from ihe steamships against this kind of desertion.
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