CLEUR. The amendment as proposed to be modified reads as follows: At the end of section 8 insert the following: "On or before March 4. 1926. the Secretary of State. the Secretary of Commerce. and the Secretary of Labor shall jointly make an estimate showing as nearly as may be the several national origins of the persons who in 1020 comprised the whole population of continental United States. excepting the descendants of such persons as were Involuntary immigrants into the territory now included therein. In the preparation of such estimate the said officers are authorized to call for information and expert assistance from the Bureau of the Census. and to receive and utilize any information that may be available from other sources. "After July 1. 1927. the maximum total number of Immigrants that shall be admitted into the United States in each fiscal year shall. unless the Congress shall in the interim provide otherwise. be 150.000. and the annual quota of each nationality shall bear the same ratio to said maximum total number of immigrants as the number of inhabitants of the United States having that national origin shall bear to the whole number of inhabitants other than the descendants of involuntary immigrants. On or before April 1. 1927. said officials shall jointly proclaim and make known the quotas of each nationality. determined as aforesaid. and thereafter the said quotas shall continue with the same effect as if specifically stated herein. and shall be subject to correction and readjustment only if it shall be made to appear. to the satisfaction of said officials. that an error of fact has occurred in said estimate or in said proclamation."
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