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[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 8USC298]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                     CHAPTER 7--EXCLUSION OF CHINESE
 
Sec. 298. Omitted


                          Codification

    Section, acts Mar. 17, 1894, Art. III, 28 Stat. 1211; Apr. 28, 1904, 
ch. 1762, Sec. 1, 33 Stat. 478, provided for the Bertillon system of 
identification at the various ports of entry, to prevent unlawful entry 
of Chinese into the United States. It is obsolete in view of the repeal 
of sections 262 to 297 of this title by act Dec. 17, 1943, ch. 344, 
Sec. 1, 57 Stat. 600. For some years prior to such act, no moneys had 
been appropriated to prevent unlawful entry of Chinese, referred to in 
this section.