MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
Immigration Department
The Immigration Offices
and
Statistics from 1857 to 1903
INFORMATION
FOR THE
Universal Exhibition of St.Louis (U. S. A.)
The Head Offices are situated in Alsina StreetNo. 624 Buenos Aires, where information can be obtained eitherverbally or by correspondence in different languages bythose who wish to establish themselves in theArgentine Republic.
BUENOS AIRES
Printing Establishment of theArgentine Weather Bureau
1904
Duties of theImmigration Department subject to which immigrants can availthemselves of the benefits of the Immigration Law
The Immigration Department under the control of theMinistry of Agriculture, has the direction of all relating theretoin the Argentine Republic, and is organized to correspondto the special services related to it, which are ruled by theorganic Law of 16th. October 1876.
Managing Staff in Buenos Aires
The managing staff is composed of a Chief and a headclerk, and further more the Secretary’s Department, Archives,Accountants Department, Treasury, Statistics, Interpretersoffice for verbal information and foreign correspondence,Disembarking office, Labour and Forwarding office, ImmigrationHotel, Hospital and Medical service, and Post andTelegraph office, all of which are established in Buenos Aires.
Auxiliary Commissions in all the Argentine Territory
To attend the requirements of the service in the Interior,there are 42 Auxiliary Commissions established in the principalcities and towns of importance.
(Articles 6, 7 and 8, Chapter III of the Law.)
Archives
In the Archives of the Department, a careful Register iskept of all administrative papers, studies, observations anddocuments of ships transporting immigrants, and a list ofall those entered since the year 1857.
Accountant’s and Treasury Departments
The Accountant’s Department and the Treasury haveunder their charge the financial part of the administrationand keep account of all amounts spent in lodging and transportof immigrants and their baggage, payment of wages toemployés and other expenses. (Article 3 paragraph 13.)
Statistics
The Statistical Office keeps minute statistics of the immigrantsarriving in the country, classifying annually andmonthly the arrivals and departures of steamers, stating date,flag, number of passengers and immigrants with a summaryof the immigration movement; steamers inspected, ports ofprocedure, classification of immigrants according to nationality,profession, sexe, age; monthly, annually and quinquennially;sexagenarians entered; births and deaths onboard, immigrants entered at the Hotel and settling of immigrantsin the interior.
Interpreters Office
In the Interpreters office there are employés who speakseveral languages: verbal information is given to all immigrantswho ask for it. It provides information regardinglands offered for sale and has charge of the foreign correspon