WITHHELD DURING JANUARY, FEBRUARY, AND MARCH, 1907. travelling with their husbands and children under 21 years of age.

the grounds on which the appeal was made or on which the Immigration Board came to its decision.

† Eight of these aliens came from Extra-European Ports.

ALIENS ACT, 1905.

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Immigrant Section 8 (2) of the Act provides that the expression “immigrant ship"
ship. means "a ship which brings to the United Kingdom more than 20 alien

steerage passengers who are to be landed in the United Kingdom, whether at
the same or different ports, or such number of those passengers as may be for
the time being fixed by order of the Secretary of State, either generally or as
regards any special ships or ports”; and in this return "immigrant ship’
means a ship which brings to be landed in the United Kingdom more than
20 alien steerage passengers.

For the purposes of the Act, all alien passengers, except first class or
cabin

passengers, are steerage passengers.

Ships bringing to be landed not more than 20 alien steerage passengers are immigrant described as “non-immigrant ships.” ships. Cabin

By an Order, dated December 19th, 1905, and made under section 8 (3) of passengers. the Act, the Secretary of State declared '“ all such passengers as are entitled to

use the cabins, state rooms, or saloons where the accommodation is superior to
that provided in any other part of the ship devoted to the carrying of passengers,

to be cabin passengers for the purposes of the Act.”
Exempted Under section 1 (4) the Secretary of State has power, in certain circum-
second-

stances and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose, to exempt

immigrant ships from the provisions of that section. The Secretary of State passengers.

has in a number of instances granted such exemptions conditioned so as to
relieve the second-class passengers from inspection, on the owners of the ships
giving security by bond that they will not land, from amongst those passengers,

undesirable immigrants. Trang

This expression means alien passengers (other than first-class or cabin migrants. passengers) who have in their possession on arrival prepaid through tickets,

and in respect of whom security has been given under section 8 (1) (b) of the
Act, that they will proceed to places outside the United Kingdom. Alien
passengers who come within this category are not regarded as immigrants

under the Act.
Proceeding Under this heading are placed those alien passengers who come within the
to a desti- provisions of section 8 (1) (a) of the Act, to the effect that “any passenger
nation out- who shows to the satisfaction of the immigration officer or board concerned
United

with the case that he desires to land in the United Kingdom only for the Kingdom. purpose of proceeding within a reasonable time to some destination out of the

United Kingdom.”

class

side the

N.B.- The figures in the following Tables are subject to correction at the

end of the year.

As regards the figures in Table I., it may be taken that the transmigrants (in column 5), with a few exceptions, and the aliens included in column 11, have left the United Kingdom. It is probable that the greater number of the aliens included in columns 7, 8 and 9 have also left or will leave the country. Column 10 includes those alien passengers who stated that they were returning to their homes in the United Kingdom. With respect to the remainder no information is available as to their intentions or movements.

Table 1.-Particulars of ALIEN PASSENGERS LANDED in the UNITED KINGDOM during APRIL,

May and JUNE, 1907, from Ports in EUROPE and the MEDITERRANEAN SEA.

—

..

Liverpool..
119 28

47
44

16 London

6,912
3,016 1,112
1,383 1,401

345
Newhaven
4,256 656 2,433

1,167

294 Southampton 3,710 726 429 2,419 136

4 Type Ports

827 172

99
333
223

7 l-immigration

358
43
2

313

158 orts. Total

45,870 14,388 8,417 17,657 5,408 1,194 al for three months ided 30th June : Immigration Ports 142,175 40,439 26,319 58,597 16,820 2,683 Non-immigration 1,146 147 13

986 306 Ports RAND TOTAL 143,321 40,586 26,332 58,597 17,806 2,989 al for six months 226,878 61,762 41,948 96,044 28,124 4,117 nded 30th June, 1907. al for six months 211,705 55,588 39,294 86,974 29,849 3,536 oded 30th June 1906.

Including 2 aliens who returned with an alien refused leave to land.
† Of these seamen, 2,558 were under actual contract to join ships in British waters.

* Included in columns 12–15. 744&6 Wt 11266 8/07 D & S 4 29374

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