(Jewish Daily Bullatin)
The provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924, calling for the allocation of new immigration quotas on the basis of the national origins plan, were postponed a second time for another year when the President signed the Congressional resolution deferring the measure.
The existing immigration act, in which quotas are based upon the number of aliens in this country when the 1890 census was taken, specified that the President revise the quotas by July this year, on a proportionate basis of the different national stocks in the country.
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