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Presidential Paper Historical Series: Limiting the Immigration of Aliens Into the United States on the Basis of National Originby President Herbert Hoover: 1929-1933
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Proclamation 1872, Limiting the Immigration of Aliens Into the
United States on the Basis of National Origin By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation: WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved May
26, 1924, entitled "An Act to limit the immigration of aliens
into the United States, and for other purposes," as amended by
the Joint Resolution of March 4, 1927, entitled "Joint
Resolution to amend subdivisions (b) and (e) of Section 11 of
the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended," and the Joint
Resolution of March 31, 1928, entitled "Joint Resolution to
amend subdivisions (b) and (e) of Section 11 of the
Immigration Act of 1924, as amended," that-- "The annual quota of any nationality for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1929, and for each fiscal year thereafter,
shall be a number which bears the same ratio to 150,000 as the
number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920
having that national origin (ascertained as hereinafter
provided in this section) [p.37] bears to the number of
inhabitants in continental United States in 1920, but the
minimum quota of any nationality shall be 100." Sec.
11(b). "For the purpose of subdivision (b) national origin shall
be ascertained by determining as nearly as may be, in respect
of each geographical area which under section 12 is to be
treated as a separate country (except the geographical areas
specified in subdivision (c) of section 4) the number of
inhabitants in continental United States in 1920 whose origin
by birth or ancestry is attributable to such geographical
area. Such determination shall not be made by tracing the
ancestors or descendants of particular individuals, but shall
be based upon statistics of immigration and emigration,
together with rates of increase of population as shown by
successive decennial United States censuses, and such other
data as may be found to be reliable." Sec. 11(c). "For the purpose of subdivisions (b) and (c) the term
'inhabitants in continental United States in 1920' does not
include (1) immigrants from the geographical areas specified
in subdivision (c) of section 4 or their descendants, (2)
aliens ineligible to citizenship or their descendants, (3) the
descendants of slave immigrants, or (4) the descendants of
American aborigines." Sec. 11(d). "The determination provided for in subdivision (c) of this
section shall be made by the 'Secretary of State, the
Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor, jointly. In
making such determination such officials may call for
information and expert assistance from the Bureau of the
Census. Such officials shall, jointly, report to the President
the quota of each nationality, determined as provided in
subdivision (b), and the President shall proclaim and make
known the quotas so reported. Such proclamation shall be made
on or before April 1, 1929. If the proclamation is not made on
or before such date, quotas proclaimed therein shall not be in
effect for any fiscal year beginning before the expiration of
90 days after the date of the proclamation. After the making
of a proclamation under this subdivision the quotas proclaimed
therein shall continue with the same effect as if specifically
stated herein, and shall be final and conclusive for every
purpose except (1) in so far as it is made to appear to the
satisfaction of such officials and proclaimed by the
President, that an error of fact has occurred in such
determination or in such proclamation, or (2) in the case
provided for in subdivision (c) of Section 12. If for any
reason quotas proclaimed under this subdivision are not in
effect for any fiscal year, quotas for such year shall be
determined under subdivision (a) of this section." Sec.
11(e). AND WHEREAS the Secretary of State, the Secretary of
Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor have reported to the
President that pursuant to the duty imposed and the authority
conferred upon them in and by the Act approved May 26, 1924,
they jointly have made the determination [p.38] required by
said Act and fixed the quota of each respective nationality in
accordance therewith to be as hereinafter set forth; Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United
States of America, acting under and by virtue of the power in
me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby proclaim
and make known that the annual quota of each nationality for
the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1929, and for each fiscal
year thereafter, has been determined in accordance with the
law to be, and shall be, as follows: NATIONAL ORIGIN IMMIGRATION QUOTAS Country or
Area
Quota Afghanistan 100 Albania.
100 Andorra
100 Arabian
peninsula
100 Armenia
100 Australia (including Tasmania, Papua, and all islands
ap- pertaining to Australia) 100 Austria 1,413 Belgium
1,304 Bhutan 100 Bulgaria
100 Cameroon (British mandate) 100 Cameroon (French mandate) 100 China 100 Czechoslovakia
2, 874 Danzig, Free City of 100 Denmark
1,181 Egypt 100 Estonia 116 Ethiopia (Abyssinia) 100 Finland 569 France 3, 086 Germany
25, 957 Great Britain and Northern
Ireland 65, 721 Country or
Area
Quota Greece 307 Hungary
869 Iceland 100 India 100 Iraq (Mesopotamia) 100 Irish Free State 17,853 Italy 5,802 Japan 100 Latvia 236 Liberia 100 Liechtenstein 100 Lithuania
386 Luxemburg 100 Monaco
100 Morocco (French and Spanish Zones and
Tangier) 100 Muscat
(Oman)
100 Nauru (British
mandate)
100 Nepal 100 Netherlands 3,153 New Zealand 100 Norway
2,377 New Guinea, Territory of (including appertaining
islands) (Australian mandate) 100 Palestine (with Trans-Jordan) (British mandate) 100 Persia 100 Poland 6,524 Portuga
1440 Ruanda and Urundi (Belgian mandate) 100 Rumania
295 Russia, European and Asiatic 2,784 Samoa, Western (mandate of New
Zealand) 100 San Marino 100 Siam 100 South Africa, Union of 100
Country or
Area
Quota
South West Africa (mandate of the Union of South
Africa) 100
Spain 252
Sweden
3,314
Switzerland 1,707
Syria and the Lebanon (French mandate)
123
Tanganyika (British mandate) 100
Togoland (British mandate)
100
Togoland (French mandate) 100
Turkey
226
Yap and other Pacific Islands under Japanese mandate
100
Yugoslavia 845 All quotas hereby established are available only for
persons who are eligible to citizenship in the United States
and admissible under the immigration laws of the United
States. The immigration quotas assigned to the various countries
and quota-areas are not to be regarded as having any political
significance whatever, or as involving recognition of new
governments, or of new boundaries, or of transfers of
territory, except as the United States Government has already
made such recognition in a formal and official manner. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City
of Washington, this 22d day of March, in the year of Our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine and of the
Independence of the United States of America the one-hundred
and fifty-third.[SEAL] HERBERT HOOVER By the President: FRANK B. KELLOGG Secretary of State
Reprinted with permission from John Wolley and Gerhard Peters of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara at the American Presidency Project.
This is part of the presidential paper historical series featuring past presidential public papers related to immigration law. The papers of our past Presidents show the impact of immigration law in American history. We thank the efforts of the American Presidency Project who have gathered these important archival documents.
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