SIXTY-FIRST 'CONGRESS . SESS.' II. CHs. 393-395 . 825 1910. SEC. 2 . That the title of said act be amended so as to read as follows : "An Act for the relief of soldiers and sailors who enlisted or served under assumed names, while minors or otherwise, in the army or navy, during the war of the rebellion, the war with Spain, or the Philippine insurrection ." Approved, June 25, 1910 . lar CHAP . 394 .-An Act To provide for the .time and places for holding of the regular terms of the United States circuit and district courts for the western district of the State of Oklahoma, and for other purposes . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That two terms each year of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the western district of the State of Oklahoma shall be held at Woodward, Oklahoma, and the regular terms of said courts at W oodward shall be held on the first Monday in May and the second Monday in November of each year : Provided, That suitable rooms and accommodations for the holding of said courts shall be furnished without cost or expense to the Government of the United States . Approved, June 25, 1910 . Title amended . . i i .] s.R , ssiS.] JH [ [Public, No. 27s .] Oklahoma western judicial district . court, WTed " of Vol . 34, p. 275. P-110, netc Jun 25,1910. CHAP. 395 .-An Act To further regulate interstate and foreign commerce by prohibiting the transportation therein for immoral purposes of women and girls, and 1 for other purposes . [Public, No . 277.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House o Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemble That the term "interstate white slave traffic ac commerce," as used in this Act, shall include transportation from any scce ofoerState or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State or merceplcooe to transports, Territory or the District of Columbia, and the term "foreign com- tionmerce," as used in this Act, shall include transportation from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any foreign country and from any foreign country to any State or Territory or the District of Columbia. SEC . 2 . That any person who shall knowingly transport or cause to Trispf~~ 083 be transported, or aid or assist in obtaining . transportation for, or in feT practices a felony. transporting, in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or in the District of Columbia, any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice, or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute or to give herself up to debauchery, or to engage in any other immoral practice ; or who shall knowingly etc.,Furnishing. tickets, i nclude . procure or obtain, or cause to be procured or obtained, or aid or assist in procuring or obtaining, any ticket or tickets, or any form of transportation or evidence of the right thereto, to be used by any woman or girl in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or the District of Columbia, in going to any place for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent or purpose on the part of such person to induce, entice, or compel her to give herself up to the practice of prostitution, or to give herself up to debauchery, or any other immoral practice, whereby any such woman or girl shall be transported in interstate or fore' commerce, or in any Territory or the District of Columbia, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be Punishment. punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment of not more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court . Inducing, etc, SEC. 3 . That any person who shall knowingly persuade f induce transportation of entice, or coerce, or cause to be persuaded. in uced, enticed, or co-> women for immoral purposes a felony. erced, or aid or assist in persuading, inducing, enticing, or bcoercmg 826 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SEss. II . Ca. 395 . 1910 . fore any .woman or girl to go from one place to another in interstate or 'gn commerce, or in any Territory or the District of Columbia, for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose on the part of such person that such woman or girl shall engage in the practice of prostitution or debauchery, or any other immoral practice, whether with or without her consent, and who shall thereby knowingly cause or aid or assist in causing such woman or girl to go and to be carried or transported as a passenger upon the line or route of any common carrier or carriers in interstate or foreign commerce, or any Territory or the District of Columbia, shall be deemed uilty of a felony and on Punishmentt conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or b~* imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court . Inducing, etc., inSEC . 4 . That any person who shall knowingly persuade, induce, terstate transportation of females under entice, or coerce any woman or girl" under the age of eighteen years 18 foO immoral al prac- from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other a State or Territory or the District of Columbia, with the purpose and intent to induce or coerce her, or that she shall be induced or coerced to engage in prostitution or debauchery, or any other immoral practice, and shall in furtherance of such purpose knowingly induce or cause her to go and to be carried or transported as a . passenger in interstate commerce upon the line or route of any common carrier Punishment. or carriers, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court . Jurisdiction of SEC. 5 . That any violation of any of the above sections two, three, courts . and four shall be prosecuted in any court having jurisdiction of crimes within the district in which said violation was committed, or from, through, or into which any such woman or girl may have been carried or transported as a passenger in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or the District of Columbia, contrary to the provisions of any of said sections . AHen Prostitutes;. . SEC . 6 . That for the purpose of re ulating and preventing the Informatio bu eau established . transportation in foreign commerce of alien women and girls for urposes of prostitution and debauchery, and in pursuance of and for the purpose of carrying out the terms of the agreement or project of arrangement for the suppression of the white-slave traffic, adopted Vol . ss, p . Isal. July twenty-fifth , nineteen hundred and two, for submission to their respective governments by the delegates of variouSP owers represented at the Paris conference and confirmed by a foal agreement signed at Paris an May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, and adhered to by the United States on June sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, as shown by the proclamation of the President of the United Authority of coin- States, dated June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, the Comneral •f m lmiig.in missioner-General of Immigration is hereby designated as the authority of the United States to receive and centralize information concerning the procuration of alien women and girls with a view to their debauchery, and to exercise supervision over such alien women and girls, receive their declarations, establish their identity, and ascertain from them who induced them to leave their native countries, res ecstatements re- tively ; and it shall be the duty of said Commissioner-General of quired . Immigration to receive and keep on file in his office the statements and declarations which may be made by such slien women and girls, and those which are hereinafter required pertaining to such alien women and girls engaged in prostitution or debauchery in this country, and to furnish receipts for such statements and declarations provided for in this act to the persons, respectively, making and filing them . SIXTY-FIRST C ONGRESS . SESs . IL Cit. 395 . 1910. 827 statements of alien Every person who shall keep, maintain,, control, support, or harbor Inmates to be made in any ouse h or place for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other by keepers of houses immoral purpose, any- alien woman or girl within three years after she _~nte, p . 26C shall have entered the United States from any country, party to the said arrangement for the suppression of the white-slave traffic, shall file with the Commissioner-General of Immigration a s tatement .in writing setting forth the name of such alien woman or girl, the place at which she is kept, and all facts as to the date of her entry into the United States, the port through which she entered, her age, nationality, and parentage and concerning her procuration to come to this country within the ir~owledge of such person, and any person who menilureto filestate . shall fail within thirty days after such person shall commence to keep , maintain, control, support, or harbor in any house or place for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, any alien woman or girl within three years after she shall have entered the United States from any of the countries, party to the said arrangement for the suppression of the white-slave traffic, to file such statement concerning such alien woman or girl with the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration, or who shall knowi ngly and willfully state falsely or fail to disclose in such statement any fact within his ¢knowledge or belief with reference to the age, nationality, or parentage of any such alien woman or girl, or concerning her procuration to come to this country, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- Punishment. viction shall be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court . In any prosecution brought under this section, if it appear that any statement such statement required is not on file in the office of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration, the person whose duty it shall be to file such statement-shall be resumed to have failed to file said statement, as herein required, unless such person or persons shall prove otherwise . No person shall be excused from furnishing the statement, as required by this section, on the ground or for the reason that the statement so required by him, or the information therein contained, might tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture, but no person fuiImmunity for truth , statements. shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture under any law of the United States for or on account of any transaction, . matter, or thing, concerning which he may truthfully report in such statement, as required by the provisions of this section . SEC . 7 . That the term "Territory," as used in this Act, shall include Binas ,I-ulcaa the district of Alaska, the insular possessions of the United States, and zone included in the Canal Zone . The word "person," as used in this Act, shall be- "Territory." ' conn " construed to import both the plural and the singular, as the case strued demands, and shall include corporations, companies, societies, and corporations, etc ., associations. When construing and enforcing the provisions of this responsiblefor agents, Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person, etc. acting for or employed by any other person or by any corporation, coinpany, society, or association within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, omission, or failure of such other person, or of such company, corporation, society, or association, as well as that of the person himself . SEC . 8 . That this Act shall be known and referred to as the "White- Tileslave traffic Act ." . Approved, June 25, 1910 . SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SEss . II. 828 June 25,1910. . [H. R. 12353.1 [Public, No.278.] Turtle Bay, Tex . Lone Star Canal Company may dam . Proviso . Look. closing passes. Ditch from Trinity River to Smiths Bayou . Construction . Vol. 34, p. 386. Ante, p.593. Amendment. June25,1910 . [H.R.12434 .] [Public, No . 279.] Texas judicial districts. Pay of district attorneys and marshals to be $4,035 each . Vol . 29, pp. 181,182, amended. . 396-398 . 1910. CHs CHAP . 396 .-An Act Authorizing the Lone Star Canal Company, of Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas, to erect a dam across the mouth of Turtle Bay, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemble , That the Lone Star Canal Company, of Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas, be, and hereby is, authorized, under the supervision of the Secretary of War, to construct and maintain a bulkhead or dam across the mouth of Turtle Bay, north of Browns Pass of the Trinity River, commencing on the mainland abutting on the property of said company, extending westwardly about one thousanc- nine hundred feet to a point three hundred feet north of the mouth of said Browns Pass, abutting on state land : Provided, That said company shall, at its own expense, provide and keep a lock in said bulkhead or dam at such place and of such dimensions as may be approved by the Secretary ofWar. SEC . 2 . That said company, under the supervision of the Secretary of War, is hereby authorized to close by dam all passes from the Trinity River to said Turtle Bay, also Jacks Pass, connecting Trinity River with Galveston Bay . SEC . 3 . That said company, after it shal l have acquired title to the right of way, shall have and is hereby granted authority to cut a ditch of such depth and dimensions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War from the Trinity River, opposite the junction of Old and Trinity rivers, to Smiths Bayou . SEC . 4 . That the work herein authorized shall not be commenced until the plans therefor shall have been filed in the War Department, and that the said work shall be constructed under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction ofdams across navigable waters," approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved June, nineteen hundred and ten, so far as the same may he hereto applicable . SEC . 5 . That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 25, 1910 . CHAP . 397.-An Act To make uniform the salaries of United States district attorneys and marshals in Texas . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after July first, nineteen hundred and ten, each United States district attorney and marshal of any Texas district shall receive as salary the sum of four thousand dollars per annum . Approved, June 25, 1910. CHAP. 398.-An Act Amending the statutes in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods and merchandise. [Public, No . 280 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and Douse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges of the Customs. g New LOndon, Conn i first section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ra nt ed imm ediate transportation privi . eighty, entitled "An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immelego diate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other -~purp~., oses," be, V .21,p.173 . and the same are hereby, extended to the port of New London, in the customs collection district of New London, Connecticut . Approved, June 25, 1910 . June 25,1910. [H . R. 13448.]