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such offers or promises are true or false, or in consequence of agreements, oral, written, or printed, express or implied, to perforin labour in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled; persons who have come in consequence of advertisements for labourers, printed, published, or distributed in a foreign country. "Persons likely to become a public charge; persons who have been deported under any of the provisions of this Act, and who may again seek admission within one year from the date of such deportation, unless prior to their re-embarkation at a foreign port or their attempt to be admitted from foreign contiguous territory the Secretary of Labour shall have consented to their reapplying for admission; persons whose tickets or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who are assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such persons do not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes; persons whose ticket or passage is paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign Government, either directly or indirectly. " Stowaways, except that any such stowaway, if otherwise admissible, may be admitted in the discretion of the Secretary of Labour. " All children under sixteen years of age, unaccompanied by or not coming to one or both of their parents, except that any such children may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Labour, be admitted if in his opinion they are not likely to become a public charge and are otherwise eligible, unless otherwise provided for by existing treaties. " Persons who are Natives of islands not possessed by the United States adjacent to the Continent of Asia, situate south of the twentieth parallel of latitude north, west of the one hundred and sixtieth meridian of longitude east of Greenwich, and north of the tenth parallel of latitude south, or who are Natives of any country, province, or dependency situate on the Continent of Asia west of the one hundred and tenth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich, and east of the fiftieth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich, and south of the fiftieth parallel of latitude north, except that portion of said territory situate between the fiftieth and the sixty-fourth meridians of longitude east from Greenwich and the twenty-fourth and thirty-eighth parallels of latitude north ; and no alien now in any way excluded from, or prevented from entering, the United States shall be admitted to the United States. The provision next foregoing, however, shall not apply to persons of the following status or occupations : Government officers, ministers or religious teachers, missionaries, lawyers, physicians, chemists, civil engineers, teachers, students, authors, artists, merchants, and travellers for curiosity or pleasure, nor to their legal wives or their children under sixteen years of age who shall accompany them or who subsequently ma}' apply for admission to the United States, but such persons or their legal wives or foreignborn children who fail to maintain in the United States a status or occupation placing them within the excepted classes shall be deemed to be in the United States contrary to law, and shall be subject to deportation as provided in section nineteen of this Act. "That after three months from the passage of this Act, in addition to the aliens who are by law now excluded from admission into the United States, the following persons shall also be excluded from admission thereto, to wit :— "All aliens over sixteen years of age physically culpable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish : Provided that any admissible alien, or any alien heretofore or hereafter legally admitted, or any citizen of the United States, may bring in or send for his father or grandfather over fifty-five years of age, his wife, his mother, his grandmother, or his unmarried or widowed daughter, if otherwise admissible, whether such relative can read or not; and such relative shall be permitted to enter. That for the purpose of ascertaining whether aliens can read, the Immigrant Inspectors shall be furnished with slips of uniform size, prepared under the direction of the Secretary of Labour, each containing not less than thirty nor more than forty words in ordinary use, printed in plainly legible type in some one of the various languages or dialects of immigrants. Each alien may designate the particular language or dialect in which he desires the examination to be made, and shall be required to read the words printed on the slip in such language or dialect. " That the following classes of persons shall be exempt from the operation of the illiteracy test, to wit: All aliens who shall prove to the satisfaction of the proper immigration officer or to the Secretary of Labour that they are seeking admission to the United States to avoid religious persecution in the country of their last permanent residence, whether such persecution be evidenced by overt acts or by laws or governmental regulations that discriminate against the alien or the race to which he belongs because of his religious faith; all aliens who have been lawfully admitted to the United States, and who have resided therein continuously for five years, and who return to the United States within six months from the date of their departure therefrom ; all aliens in transit through the United States; all aliens who have been lawfully admitted to the United States, and who later shall go in transit from one part of the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory. " Provided thai nothing in this Act shall exclude, if otherwise admissible, persons convicted, or who admit the commission, or who teach or advocate the commission, of an offence purely political. " Provided further that the provisions of this Act relating to the payments for tickets or passage by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign Government shall not apply to the tickets or passage of aliens in immediate and continuous transit through the United States to foreign contiguous territory. " Provided further that skilled labour, if otherwise admissible, may be imported if labour of like kind unemployed, cannot be found in this country; and the question of the necessity of importing such skilled labour in any particular instance may be determined by the Secretary of Labour upon the application of any person interested, such application to be made before such