8 U.S.C. § 1557 : US Code - Section 1557: Prevention of transportation in foreign commerce of alien women and girls under international agreement; Commissioner designated as authority to receive and preserve information

Search 8 U.S.C. § 1557 : US Code - Section 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 white-slave 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.