Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1901 — FOREIGNERS IN NORWAY. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGNERS IN NORWAY.

Rigid Regulations Imposed Upon Them by Recent Statute. According to a law recently passed by the Norwegian lagthing, all persons whose occupation it is to receive travelers as night lodgers shall report the same to the police, and keep a list in a book approved by the police of all persons whom they receive, says the New York Times. Any foreigner desiring to reside or obtain employment in Norway must report on arrival his means, if required, appear before the local police. The law furthermore states that should a foreigner stek employment in Norway without taking up his residence at any fixed place, he must personally report himself on arrival, and. if his explanations are satisfactory, he will be provided with a certificate of residence book. Unless there exists any agreement to the contrary with a foreign government, the subjects of any foreign state may be refused admittance into Norway, and. if necessary, sent out of the country at the instance of the police, for the following reasons: “(1) If he is found on arrival not to be in possession of sufficient means of support or without prospects of obtaining lawful employment in Norway; (2) omitting to report himself after arrival; (3) if he is unprovided with a certificate of residence book when he ought to be in possession of one; (4) if during the five preceding years he has been condemned in any other country for a punishable offense which would be punishable by Norwegian law with death or hard labor or confinement in a reformatory, excepting political offenses, if unaccompanied by circumstances involving penalty of death or hard labor.” Until the question of any foreigner’s ejectment is finally settled he is liable to arrest and imprisonment. The measure is intended to come into operation January 1,1902.