They simply constitute priia facie evidence to our authorities as to the facts about the ilmmigrants. But in many cases no surgeon sails on the vessel. Perhaps it is a small vessel from the Cape Verde Islands. for instance. Nevertheless. a statement of the facts must be ready on arriving or there will be intolerable congestion and delay. In cases of this sort we provide that the ship must employ a competent surgeon to exanine the immigrants before they sail. We also provide that the results of these examinations must be sworn to by the surgeons who make them. Clearly those affidavits must be made in foreign countries.
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