Correspondence Regarding Asking Congress to Make an Exception to the Exclusion Law to Allow Chinese to Exhibit at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, in 1901
12/19/1899 - 6/16/1900
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In 1900 the Office of the Superintendent of Immigration, which had been established in the Department of the Treasury in 1891, became the chief agency responsible for implementing Federal regulations mandated by the Chinese exclusion laws. Both the Chinese Bureau within the Customs Service and the Chinese Division of the INS employed "Chinese" inspectors, people designated to enforce the Chinese exclusion laws. Immigration-related decisions made by these Federal officials were sometimes appealed to Federal courts, which also heard criminal cases involving Chinese alleged to be living in the United States illegally. This document is featured in "The Chinese Exclusion Act: Researching in the National Archives," available on iBooks.
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Treasury DepartmentOffice of Secretary
Washington, D.C.
January 8, 1900
Mr. George E. Kay,
Care Merchant’s Hotel
Omaha, Nebraska.
Sir:
Replying to the inquiry contained in your letter of the 3rd instant, you are informed that no law has been passed providing for the admission of Chinese as participants in the Pan-American Exposition, to be held at Buffalo, N.Y., in 1901. A measure is, however, pending before Congress on the subject.
Respectfully yours,
Assistant Secretary.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
National Archives Identifier: 19086726
Full Citation: Correspondence Regarding Asking Congress to Make an Exception to the Exclusion Law to Allow Chinese to Exhibit at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, in 1901; 12/19/1899 - 6/16/1900; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/correspondence-regarding-asking-congress-to-make-an-exception-to-the-exclusion-law-to-allow-chinese-to-exhibit-at-the-pan-american-exposition-in-buffalo-new-york-in-1901, April 28, 2024]Rights: Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions. Learn more on our privacy and legal page.