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  Our Documents - Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur.
The Chinese Exclusion Act required the few nonlaborers who sought entry to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate.
When the exclusion act expired in 1892, Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act.
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  Geary Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Geary Act was a United States law passed in 1892 written by California Congressman Thomas J. Geary.
The law required all Chinese residents of the United States to carry a resident permit, a sort of internal passport.
The Geary Act was challenged in the courts but was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in an opinion by Justice Horace Gray, Fong Yue Ting v.
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 Geary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Reginald Geary (1873–1954), mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1910 to 1912
John W. Geary (1819–1873), mayor of San Francisco, governor of the Kansas Territory, governor of Pennsylvania and general in the American Civil War
Geary Act, an 1892 U.S. government law that restricted the rights of Chinese immigrants in the United States
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 Chinese Exclusion Act (United States)
The act was renewed in 1892 by the Geary Act for another 10 years, and in 1902 with no terminal date.
It was repealed by the 1943 Magnuson Act, although large scale Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965.
The act was passed in response to the large number of Chinese who had immigrated to the Western United States as a result of unsettled conditions in China and the availability of jobs working on railroads.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ch/chinese_exclusion_act__united_states_.html   (367 words)

  
 American Conservatory Theater - ACT San Francisco
After almost a century, the Geary remains faithful to its historical period, an outstanding example of the theater design, philosophy, and architecture of the early years of the 20th century.
In 1975, the Geary was awarded a place on the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Register of Historic Places and was named a landmark of the State of California and the City and County of San Francisco.
The Geary was closed, but with the help of thousands of individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies throughout the nation who contributed to the Geary Theater Capital Campaign, A.C.T. raised over $28.5 million to complete the renovation and seismic stabilization of the building in 1996.
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 Separate Lives, Broken Dreams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Geary Act of 1892 - Extended Chinese Exclusion for another 10 years and required all Chinese in America to obtain certificates of residence within a year.
Immigration Act of 1924 - It was originally conceived and passed by U.S. Congress to limit the immigration of central, eastern, and southern Europeans.
Though the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed in 1943, this Immigration Act of 1924 imposed a quota on Chinese immigration that allowed for only 105 persons per year into America from anywhere in the entire world.
www.asianamericanmedia.org /separatelivesbrokendreams/glossary.html   (1275 words)

  
 Geary and Kansas - Introduction
The organic act a compromise measure.--Kansas intended for a slave state.--Conduct of the pro-slavery party.--Persecutions of free-state people.--New England Emigrant Aid Societies.--Public meetings.--Blue Lodges.--Invasion from Westport.--Arrival of Governor Reeder.--Judges of the Supreme Court.
Act of the Legislative Assembly, to authorize courts and judges to admit to bail in all cases.--Veto message of the governor.--The bill passed.--Clarke and others bailed under the new law.
Passage of the census bill.--Governor Geary's veto message.--The manner in which the census was taken.--Repeal of the test laws.--Adjournment of the Legislature.--Secretary Marcy and the Topeka Legislature.--Letter to the Secretary of State.--Arrest of a fugitive.--Rencontre at Topeka.--Complaint of prisoners.--Breaking up of the Kansas River.
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 Gorsky Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Geary responded that, though her novels had always blended the natural and supernatural, they had never been fantasy.
Come back to us when you write a fantasy novel.” Geary then took her novel to several other large publishing houses, but the answer was always the same: we can only market you as a fantasy writer.
Frustrated, Geary turned her back on the world of publishing and returned to Redlands, California, where she concentrated on teaching, raising her son, and writing.
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In 1892 the Geary Act was passed, providing that any Chinaman not lawfully entitled to remain in the United States should be removed to China and all Chinese laborers should be obliged to procure certificates of residence from the collector of Internal revenue, failure to do so within a year to be followed by deportation.
This act was modified considerably by a law passed in 1893.
Acting upon the advice of eminent counsel that the law was unconstitutional, the great mass of Chinese laborers, pending judicial inquiry as to its validity, in good faith declined to apply for the certificates required by its provisions.
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 Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 reversed the Burlingame Treaty of 1868 and...
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The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, known in the Chinese-Canadian community as the Chinese Exclusion Act, was an act passed by the federal...
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 The Geary Act of 1892 - Geary Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In 1892, Congressman Thomas J. Geary of California cast shame upon the Geary name by introducing the Geary Act, a bill that extended for another decade the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (photo).
The Geary Act required Chinese living in the United States to carry a certificate of residence, without which they were subject to deportation or imprisonment and a year of hard labor.
That every vessel whose master shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed forfeited to the United States, and shall be liable to seizure and condemnation on any district of the United States into which such vessel may enter or in which she may be found.
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 LIST OF UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION ACTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Immigration Act of 1924 aimed at restricting Southern and Eastern European immigration.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 somewhat liberalized immigration from Asia, but increased the power of the government to deport aliens suspected of Communist sympathies.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 granted amnesty to aliens who had been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal alien.
www.yotor.org /wiki/en/li/List%20of%20United%20States%20Immigration%20Acts.htm   (253 words)

  
 chineseimmigrationact
It also was the first in a series of legislative, executive, and judicial acts by the U.S. Government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries setting official immigration policies that many historians, scholars, and average citizens consider as racist.
The Act states that “in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory.
The Chinese Exclusion Act also required Chinese “non-laborers” in China who desired to enter the U.S. to obtain certification from the Chinese government that declared that they were qualified to immigrate.
www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/VirtualAmericana/chineseimmigrationact.html   (649 words)

  
 Geary, John White - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Geary, John White
A Mexican War veteran, he was the first mayor of San Francisco (1850) and he pacified ‘Bloody Kansas’ as territorial governor there in 1856–57.
Geary was Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 1867–73.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Geary%2c+John+White   (117 words)

  
 Geary Act of 1892 in San Francisco Chinatown - The largest chinatown outside of Asia
Geary Act of 1892 in San Francisco Chinatown - The largest chinatown outside of Asia
That any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent convicted and adjudged to be not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a period of not exceeding on e year and thereafter removed from the United States, as hereinbefore provided.
And any Chinese person other than a Chinese laborer, having a right to be and remain in the United States, desiring such certificate as evidence of such right may apply for and receive the same without charge.
www.sanfranciscochinatown.com /history/1892gearyact.html   (115 words)

  
 Definition of index.php?search=controlled|substances|act&limit=20&offset=80   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
9:...resolution, or vote of assembly, contrary to this act, shall be null and void.
7:...dual act is usually separated with a break in the action or plot development.
5: The Geary Act was challenged in the courts and affirmed by the...
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 Asian Pacific Americans and Immigration Law
An Act to Protect Free White Labor Against Competition with Chinese Coolie Labor and to Discourage the Immigration of the Chinese into the State of California, April 26, 1862
Geary Act extended exclusion of Chinese laborers another ten years and stripped most legal rights from Chinese immigrants; also required certificates of residence for Chinese in the United States
National Origin System - Immigration Act (Johnson Act) - used the country of birth to determine whether an individual could enter as legal alien, the number of previous immigrants and their descendants used to set the quota of how many from a country could enter annually.
academic.udayton.edu /race/02rights/immigr05.htm   (1555 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Regional : North America : Canada : New Brunswick : Localities : Geary
George Reginald Geary, mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1910 to 1912.
Geary Boulevard (designated as Geary Street for part of its route), a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California
An 1892 U.S. government law called the Geary Act that restricted the rights of Chinese immigrants in the United States.
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 The Exclusion Act| The Geary Act| The Page Law| Gold Rush| The Transcontinental Railroad|
Most were deported back to their country because they weren’t eligible due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred all immigration of the Chinese for almost sixty years.
Soon the population of the Chinese began to decrease as the result of the law known as the Chinese Exclusion Act.
The Geary Act was also aimed at the Chinese.
www.tqnyc.org /NYC040855/chineseimmigrantstext.htm   (940 words)

  
 Geary and Kansas - Chapter 41.
crowning act of the legislature was the passage, near the close of its session, of what is called the "Census Bill." This was the most infamous scheme to rob thousands of free-men of their right of the elective franchise, that has ever been devised in this or any other country.
Another feature of the bill is, that although it was framed expressly to defraud the free-state citizens of their rights, it requires them to pay a tax to assist in the accomplishment of the fraud.
    One part of the plan, as explained to Governor Geary, is to adopt a constitution in which no reference whatever shall be made to the subject of slavery; and this fact has been announced in the administration organs as an evidence of the conciliatory disposition of the pro-slavery party of Kansas.
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 Open Collections Program: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Through the Geary Act of 1892, the law was extended for another ten years before becoming permanent in 1902.
The Chinese Exclusion Act foreshadowed the immigration-restriction acts of the 1920s, culminating in the National Origins Act of 1929, which capped overall immigration to the United States at 150,000 per year and barred Asian immigration.
It was not until the Immigration Act of 1965, which eliminated previous national-origins policy, that large-scale Chinese immigration to the United States was allowed to begin again after a hiatus of over 80 years.
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 Law Offices of Sunil Khurana, lawyers in White Plains, NY, New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
There are six categories of "removal" grounds: 1) inadmissible at time of entry or of adjustment of status or violates status; 2) criminal offenses; 3) Failure to register and falsification of documents; 4) security and related grounds; 5) public charge; and 6) unlawful voters.
If an alien is convicted of any one of a number of miscellaneous crimes (or conspiracy or attempt to commit one of the crimes) at any time after entering the United States, the alien is removable.
An alien in the United States may be removed if he or she has been convicted of domestic violence, stalking, violation of a protective order, or crimes against children, including abuse, neglect, and abandonment.
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 Stanford Magazine > March/April 2002 > Feature Story > The Company She Keeps
At the time, the Geary’s condition was a metaphor for the company, which had languished after founder William Ball was ousted in 1986 and later committed suicide.
ACT is known as a conservatory that has trained such stellar actors as Annette Bening, Nicolas Cage, Danny Glover, Winona Ryder and Denzel Washington.
And she is constantly building for the future, sending ACT actors to conduct workshops in local high schools, armed with thousands of copies of scripts so that students can own the plays they explore.
www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2002/marapr/features/perloff.html   (2920 words)

  
 KQED : Pacific Link: The KQED Asian Education Initiative: Timelines: U.S. Immigration
Geary Act renews 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, stating that "any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent" is deemed to be in the country illegally unless demonstrated otherwise
New Immigration Act requires all immigrants over 16 years of age to be literate in their own language, or be directly related to a literate male entering or already living in the country.
Reed-Johnson Immigration act restricts new arrivals to 2% of existing foreign-born based on 1890 Census and bars all others who are ineligible to achieve citizenship under existing laws from entering altogether; 87% of permits go to immigrants from Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia.
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 HarpWeek | Elections | 1892 Events
Sponsored by Congressman Thomas Geary of California, the law extended for another decade all federal regulations related to Chinese immigration.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Geary Act in 1893.
Convened on July 4 in Omaha, Nebraska, the Populists nominated James B. Weaver of Iowa, a former Union general and Greenback congressman, for president and James G. Field of Virginia, a former Confederate officer and state attorney general, for vice president.
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 Chinese Discovery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This act had prevented the immigration of the Chinese into America in an effort to control their population and reduce their influence in the country.
The Chinese Exclusion Act, furthermore, was an act to prevent a people from obtaining the "American Dream." Not only did the Chinese Exclusion Act affect the Chinese who were entering the country, it also affected those who were already residing in the states.
Thought the Exclusion Act was officially terminated in 1892, Congress had extended the act for ten years after writing and passing the Geary Act, which lasted until 1902.
www.beaconschool.org /~jchin/immigration/chinesediscovery.htm   (1068 words)

  
 Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 - China History Forum, chinese history forum
The Chinese Immigration Act 1923, known in the Chinese-Canadian community as the Chinese Exclusion Act was an act passed by the Federal Government of Canada, banning most forms of Chinese immigration to Canada.
The act was renewed in 1892 by the Geary Act for another 10 years, and in 1902 with no terminal date.
The act was passed in response to the large number of Chinese who had immigrated to the Western United States as a result of unsettled conditions in China and the availability of jobs working on railroads.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=4602   (689 words)

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