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Volume 49

Private Law 74–131

For the relief of Rosalie Piar Sprecher (nee Rosa Piar).

Approved March 7, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

For the relief of Rosalie Piar Sprecher (nee Rosa Piar).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That in the administration of the immigration laws, relating to the issuance of immigration visas for admission to the United States for permanent residence and relating to admissions at ports of entry of aliens as immigrants for permanent residence in the United States, that provision

Vol. 39, p. 875.

U. S. C., p. 185.

of section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917 (39 Stat. 875), as amended (U. S. C., title 8, sec. 136 (e)), which excludes from admission into the United States “persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude”, shall not hereafter be held to apply to Rosalie Piar Sprecher, who is the wife of H. C. Sprecher, an American citizen, on account of an offense alleged to have been committed abroad while she was about eighteen years of age during her legal infancy more than nine years prior to the effective date of this Act and prior to her marriage in the United States to H. C. Sprecher. If she is found otherwise admissible under the immigration laws an immigration visa may be issued and admission granted to Rosalie Piar Sprecher (nee Rosa Piar) under this Act upon application hereafter filed.

Approved, March 7, 1936.

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