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the original registration, if that should be possible, or when such aliens return to appear In the before those officials pursuant to the provisions of Article 14 of Law 50 of 1913. event the new system of identification is adopted for registration purposes, the Governors of Panama, Colon, and Bocas del Toro may appoint physicians to assist the official physicians in the taking of the proper measurements, allowing them for such service seventy-five cents of a balboa for each personal description.
Article 50. The provisions of this Decree shall not be made to apply to the children of the aliens mentioned who were born in the territory of the Republic, whatever may be their age, nor to those aliens themselves if they have secured a certificate of naturalisation issued during the period when such privilege was accorded them.
Article 51. The expense which the enforcement of the provisions of this Decree may occasion shall be charged to the Department of Foreign Affairs, Chapter 59, Article 191 of the Budget for the fiscal period in force.
Article 52. The deficiencies, shortcomings or omissions which may be observed in the enforcement of Law 50 of 1913 shall be corrected in conformity with the rules established for similar cases.
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Article 53. This Decree, being regulative of the aforementioned Law 50, shall be
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the one considered to be incorporated therewith for all legal purposes. followed by the other shall be printed in a special edition, which shall be widely circulated among the aliens to which both enactments relate, among the national government officials and the officials of other countries upon whom it is incumbent to be acquainted therewith and among any other
be specially interested in having a knowledge of may its provisions.
Let it be communicated and published. Done at Panama, the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and
thirteen.
who persons
SUMMARY.
Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
DECREE No. 44 or 31st May, 1913, REGULATING LAW 30 OF THE 24TH MARCH, 1913, DEALING WITH THE IMMIGRATION OF CHINESE, TURKS, SYRIANS AND NORTH AFRICANS OF TURKISH ORIGIN.
Within fifteen days of the passing of the present Decree, a census is to be taken under the supervision of the Mayor of each district of all Chinese, Turks, Syrians and North Africans of Turkish origin who reside in the district. The census is to include males only.
Chinese, Turks, Syrians and North Africans of Turkish origin who entered the Republic before the passage of Law 50 of 1913 and who are desirous of remaining in the Republic must make written application to the Governor of the Province in which they reside. The application must contain full particulars of the applicant, including his birth- place and date of birth, the names of his parents, the names of his wife and children, if any, the names of any other members of the family who are dependent on him, the date of his If his residence in the Republic arrival in the Republic and the ship on which he came. dates from after the passage of Law 6A of 1904, he must state how he obtained admission into the country.
From the 15th June, 1913, two Registry books will be opened at the Office of the Governor of each Province; in one book all Chinese will be registered and in the other all Turks, Syrians, and North Africans of Turkish origin.
Each applicant for registration must produce three copies of a recent photograph, one of which will be affixed to the original entry in the Registry Book, one to the duplicate which is sent to the Secretary of State, and the third to the certificate given to the person registered.
The Governors of Provinces will notify all those who have not been registered by the 15th of August that they must leave the country by the 1st September.
Those who have applied to be registered, but owing to their not fulfilling the neces- sary conditions have not been registered by the 31st August, will be informed that they are to leave the Republic by the 15th September.
Exception may be made in the case of persons who, for some good reason, have not been able to present themselves for registration within the stipulated time. They may be allowed a period not exceeding 90 days in which to register themselves, and if, at the
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spiration of such time, they are not registered they will be required to leave the country ithin 10 days. A deposit of 300 dollars, United States currency, will be required from
persons
falling under this paragraph.
Those who are absent from the Republic but have a right to return must register hemselves within 30 days of their return.
Persons whose names appear on the Registers and who wish to leave the Republic will be granted passports valid for two years.
The Captain of the Port at the port of embarcation will deliver the passport to the person named therein at the moment of embarcation.
Chinese, Turks, Syrians, and North Africans of Turkish origin who desire to pass through the country in transit must inform the Consul of Panama at the port of embarca- tion so that a description of the person may be forwarded to the Secretary of State. Captains of ships which carry such passengers in transit must hand to the Captain of the Port, on their arrival, a list of such passengers and a signed declaration that they are Failure to fulfil this duty will be punishable in accordance with the passing in transit. provisions of Article 2 of Law 50, and the same will be the case if the persons named on the list have evaded or attempted to evade the prohibitions established by Law 50.
Chinese, Turks, Syrians, and North Africans of Turkish stock who wish to visit on complying with the following the country for pleasure or for study, may do so formalities:-
They must obtain the written permission of the Secretary of State, and be in possession of a certificate of identity. They must make a deposit of 300 dollars United States currency as a guarantee that they will not remain in the Republic for more than three months. This deposit will be returned on the depositor producing to the Consul of Panama at the port at which he disembarks, on his return journey, the passport granted by the Secretary of State when he left the Republic.
Chinese clerks resident in the Republic or on their way to the Republic under licence will be permitted to remain until their licence expires, and unless they then register themselves in accordance with Article 6 of Law 50 they will be required to leave the country immediately.