§ 1557. — Prevention of transportation in foreign commerce of alien women and girls under international agreement; Commissioner designated as authority to receive and preserve information.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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.
Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of
Functions
For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of
functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under
section 1551 of this title.
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.
