Excuse me. If the ger.tleman will allow me to explain exactly what happens. section 11) of the immigration act provides that the certificate of the medical examining officer shall be binding on the board of special inquiry. but in one of the rules of the Bureau of Imnmigration is inserted the word "solely." construing that word into that particular section of the act. Only in the cases of Insanity and certain othsr mental defectives is the surgeons certificate binding. As a matter of fact. in the month of October. of whic. month we have some figures. there were nearly 4.000 persons certified as defective. mentally or physically. by the medical examiner. On appeal a good many inore than half of those people were. as at matter of fact. admitted to this country. so that the gentleman will observe that the surgeons certificate Is not hinding.
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