Y.. in the month of August 1925. The amount of a bond required for each alien was $500. The beneficiaries in the bill posted liberty bonds valued at $500 each. which are described in the receipts of the district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. dated August 29. 1925. the receipts having been made on form 553A1 of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The receipts show that the bonds were received from Frank A. Corti. attorney for the beneficiaries of the bill. but on the reverse side of each. Corti certified that the bonds were received from the individuals named as beneficiaries in the bill. The bonds were to be returned to those who posted them by the Immigration and Naturalization Service upon the appearance of the aliens at the Immigration Office for deportation. All the aliens with the exception of one was deportedthe excepted one having been in the country illegally and having since proceeded toward citizenship. However. the bond posted for the latter is also forthcoming. The attorney engaged by the bondsmen to represent them failed to notify them of the date scheduled by the Immigration Service for the appearance of the aliens. and therefore they failed to call at the Immigration Office on the appointed date. The following day they were taken into custody by authorities of the Immigration and Naturalization Service from Black Rock. Payment of the bonds has been withheld for approximately 11 years and it has inflicted great hardships on the bondsmen. some of whom were obliged to seek aid from the welfare authorities. Proof that the aliens and bondsmen were not notified by their legal counsel to appear at the Immigration Office at the appointed time is on file with the committee in the form of sworn statements from the employers of the aliens to the effect that they were at work at the time they should have appeared at the Immigration Office. These statements were made by members of the Beaver Products Co. and the Universal Gypsum & Lime Co.. of Buffalo. in which firms the aliens were employed.
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