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Sec. 10. That except for provisions of previous legislation repealed or limited
oy the language of this act the provisions of this act are in addition to and not
n substitution for the provisions of the immigration laws and shall be enforced
as a part of such laws, and all the penal or other provisions of such laws not
napplicable shall apply to and be enforced in connection with the provisions of
“his act. An alien, although admissible under the provisions of this act, shall
not be admitted to the United States if he is excluded by any provision of the
'mmigration laws other than this act, and an alien, although admissible under
the provisions of the immigration laws other than this act, shall not be admitted
 to the United States if he is excluded by any provisions of this act.
Sec. 11. The maximum quotas provided for in this act shall be published
oy the Secretary of Labor on or before April 1, 1930.
Sec. 12. This act shall go into effect on the 1st day of July, 1930.

[H. R. 8702, Seventy-first Congress, second session]
A BILL To limit the immigration of aliens to the United States, and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (¢) of section 4 of the immigration
 act of 1924 is hereby amended to read as follows:
‘“(e) An immigrant who was born in the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland,
the Republic of Cubs, the Republic of Haiti, the Dominican Republie, the Canal
Zone, or an independent country of Central or South America, and his wife,
and his unmarried children under eighteen years of age, if accompanying or following
 to join him;”
Sec. 2. That subsections (a), (b), (¢), (d), and (e) of section 11, of the immigration
 act of 1924, shall not apply to the Republic of Mexico.
Sec. 3. That the total number of persons born in the Republic of Mexico,
admitted as quota immigrants during any fiscal year after June 30, 1930, shall
not exceed two thousand five hundred, and that only persons born in said area
eligible to citizenship in the United States shall be admitted as immigrants
under this act.

The CurairmMaN. As per the order of the committee at a meeting
held the other day, at which it was agreed that sessions beginning
to-day should open for consideration of H. R. 8523, by Mr. Box,
and H. R. 8530, by Mr. Johnson, which are bills to provide quotas
for immigration from the countries of this hemisphere, we have met
thismorning. Thesebills are in lieu of any bills on that subject introduced
 in previous Congresses. These bills propose a new plan. It
is agreed by the authors of the bills and recognized by members of
the committee that the bills are imperfect and it now becomes the
purpose of the committee to redraft, reframe, and build up from these
skeletons a bill that will be worthy of presentation to the House to
be supported by as many members of this committee as can properly
do so.
The demand for legislation of this kind is insistent and urgent.
[ presume that 70 per cent of the membership of the Seventy-first
Congress in the House of Representatives have called for legislation
that would restrict immigration from the countries of this hemisphere.
[ thought we could best inform ourselves before the subcommittee
shat was appointed the other day goes to work, by having as our
pet witness, Col. Lawrence Martin, geographer from the Library of
ongress.
In the files of this committee, received throughout the period of the
extra session, during which this committee was not organized, members
 will find great quantities of petitions, letters, and statements,
most of which are for legislation of this kind. A great many of these
petitions have been presented to the House of Representatives b
various Members and referred to this committee. I doubt if it will