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[CITE: 8USC1557]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
           CHAPTER 13--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
 
                       SUBCHAPTER I--ORGANIZATION
 
Sec. 1557. Prevention of transportation in foreign commerce of 
        alien women and girls under international agreement; 
        Commissioner designated as authority to receive and preserve 
        information
        
    For the purpose of regulating and preventing the transportation in 
foreign commerce of alien women and girls for purposes of prostitution 
and debauchery, and in pursuance of and for the purpose of carrying out 
the terms of the agreement or project of arrangement for the suppression 
of the whiteslave traffic, adopted July 25, 1902, for submission to 
their respective governments by the delegates of various powers 
represented at the Paris Conference and confirmed by a formal agreement 
signed at Paris on May 18, 1904, and adhered to by the United States on 
June 6, 1908, as shown by the proclamation of the President of the 
United States dated June 15, 1908, the Commissioner of Immigration and 
Naturalization is designated as the authority of the United States to 
receive and centralize information concerning the procuration of alien 
women and girls with a view to their debauchery, and to exercise 
supervision over such alien women and girls, receive their declarations, 
establish their identity, and ascertain from them who induced them to 
leave their native countries, respectively; and it shall be the duty of 
said Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization to receive and keep 
on file in his office the statements and declarations which may be made 
by such alien women and girls, and those which are hereinafter required 
pertaining to such alien women and girls engaged in prostitution or 
debauchery in this country, and to furnish receipts for such statements 
and declarations provided for in this Act to the persons, respectively, 
making and filing them.

(June 25, 1910, ch. 395, Sec. 6, 36 Stat. 826; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, 
Sec. 14, June 10, 1933.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act June 25, 1910, ch. 395, 36 
Stat. 825, known as the White Slave Traffic Act, which was classified to 
this section and to sections 397 to 404 of former Title 18, Criminal 
Code and Criminal Procedure. The act, except for the provision set out 
as this section, was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 
683, section 1 of which enacted Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. 
See sections 2421 et seq. of Title 18.

                          Codification

    Section was originally classified to section 402(1) of Title 18 
prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 18, Crimes and 
Criminal Procedure, by act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 683. 
Thereafter, it was classified to section 342l of Title 5 prior to 
enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 
89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378, and was subsequently 
classified to section 238 of this title prior to transfer to this 
section.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions vested by law in Attorney General, Department of Justice, 
or any other officer or any agency of that Department, with respect to 
inspection at regular inspection locations at ports of entry of persons, 
and documents of persons, entering or leaving United States, were to 
have been transferred to Secretary of the Treasury by 1973 Reorg. Plan 
No. 2, Sec. 2, eff. July 1, 1973, 38 F.R. 15932, 87 Stat. 1091, set out 
in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. The 
transfer was negated by section 1(a)(1), (b) of Pub. L. 93-253, Mar. 16, 
1974, 88 Stat. 50, which repealed section 2 of 1973 Reorg. Plan No. 2, 
eff. July 1, 1973.
    Functions of all other officers of Department of Justice and 
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, with a few 
exceptions, transferred to Attorney General, with power vested in him to 
authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions by 
any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 
2, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3173, 64 Stat. 1261, set out 
in the Appendix to Title 5. See sections 509 and 510 of Title 28, 
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.


           History of Immigration and Naturalization Agencies

    Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 14, June 10, 1933, set out as a note under 
section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, 
consolidated the two formerly separate bureaus known as the Bureau of 
Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization to form the Immigration and 
Naturalization Service under a Commissioner of Immigration and 
Naturalization. See note set out under section 1551 of this title.
