906 FIFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1134. 1907. V action may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act, detail immigration officers, and also surgeons, in accordance w_1th the provisions of section seventeen, for service in_foreign countries. _ mf’¤‘j{’*'”é*}f‘,§°“°” °‘ Sec. 23. That the duties of the commissioners of immigration shall D¤£*<»f.be of an administrative character, to be prescribed in detail by; regulations prepared, under the direction or with the approval of the Sec- _ retary of Commerce and Labor. _ 1¤¤¤¤s¤¤¤¢ i¤=r¤¢*» Sec. 24. That immigrant inspectors and other immigration officers, °rii¤i¤i°cs clerks, and em loyees shall hereafter be appointed and their compensation fixed and) raised or decreased from time to time by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner-General of Immigration and in accordance with the provisions v°l‘p’P‘4°3‘ . of the civil—service Act of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and m` employee. eighty-three: Provided, That said Secretary, in the enforcement of °¤°°¤'-**°* "·*’°"- that portion of this Act which excludes contract laborers, may employ, _ ¥ _ without reference to the provisions of the said civil service Act, or to the various Acts relative to the compilation of the official register, such persons as he may deem advisable and from time to time fix, raise, E"°““““‘ or decrease their compensation. He may draw from the "immigrant fund" annually fifty thousand dollars or as much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended for the salaries and expenses of persons so employed and for expenses incident to such employment; and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall pass to the credit of the proper disbursing officer expenditures from said sum without itemized account whenever the Secretary of Commerce and Labor certifies that an itemized account would not be for the best inter- ,¤f°,¤¤i:j°¤°*¤ °* ests of the Government: Provided farther, That nothing herein con- ' tained shall be construed to alter the mode of appointing commissioners of immigration at the several ports of the United States as v¤1.es,p.ss1. provided by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August _ eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or the official status of m§§;?: t°k° mm such commissioners heretofore appointed. Immigration officers shall have power to administer oaths and to take and consider evidence touching the right of any alien to enter the United States, and, where such action may be necessary, to make a written record of such Perimv- evidence: and any person to whom such an oath has been administered under the provisions of this Act who shall knowingly or wilfully give false evidence or swear to any false statement in any way affecting or in relation to the right of any alien to admission to the United States shall be deemed guilty of perjury and be punished as provided by m§§_”·· ¤°°- ****2- P- section fifty-three hundred and ninety-two, United States Revised necmons. Statutes. The decision of any such officer, if favorable to the admission ofany alien. shall be subject to challenge by any other immigration officer, and such challenge shall operate to take the alien whose right to land is so challenged before a board of special inquiry for its investigation. Every alien who may not appear to the examining immigrant inspector at the rt of arrival to be clearly and bevond a doubt entitled to land shallpibe detained for examination in relation thereto by a board of special inquiry. b,;p,g_,fi··' *¤¤“*’Y Sec. 25. That such boards of special inquiry shall be appointed by the commissioner of immigration at the various ports of arrival as may be necessary for the prompt determination of all cases of immigrants Composition. detained at such ports under the provisions of law. Each board shall ' consist of three members, who shall be selected from such of the immigrant officials in the service as the Commissioncrlieneral of Immi rration, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, sghall hmm from ltime to time designate as qualified to serve on such boards:
- ,,,S,g,,,;j,,,,,,;0,m Bmwled., That at ports where there are fewer than three immigrant
°§'**¤¤*=· inspectors, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. upon the recommendation of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, mavdesignate other United States officials for service on such boards of- special
