The provisions in the Carriage of Passengers Act had additional reporting requirements, such as the requirement that the manifest include "that part of the ship or vessel which the passenger had occupied during the voyage. Practically all of the more important lines engaged in the immigrant-carrying traffic were included in the inquiry, and every type of steerage was studied. It was the first law in the United States regulating the conditions of transportation used by people arriving and departing by sea. There had been a few related areas where regulations had been imposed:The first three sections regulated the conditions of travel, to prevent overcrowding and unsanitary conditions on ships:Section 4 of the Act required ship captains or masters to report a list of all passengers taken on board abroad, including name, sex, age, and occupation. In addition to regulating conditions in ships, the act also required ship captains to deliver and report a list of passengers with The report upon this subject was presented to Congress December 13, 1909, and printed as Senate Document No. The presence of this section has led to the act sometimes being referred to as the Manifest of Immigrants Act.Section 5 of the Act mandated that each district collector who received manifests must, every quarter (i.e., every three months), deposit these manifests with the Secretary of State, who in turn was required to present a summary to the Additional Acts from 1819 to 1855, and a number of other amendments, modified the clauses of the Steerage Act.The Steerage Act of 1819, and all the other Acts regulating conditions of travel passed after that, were repealed and superseded by the Carriage of Passengers Act of 1855, passed March 3, 1855.The Carriage of Passengers Act also contained provisions (Section 12 and 13) relating to a manifest of passengers, that corresponded to the provisions in Sections 4 and 5 of the Steerage Act. The report was also to include the number of passengers who had died on board the ship during the voyage. Its full name is An Act regulating passenger ships and vessels. The Steerage Act of 1819, also called the Manifest of Immigrants Act, was an Act passed by the United States federal government on March 2, 1819, effective January 1, 1820. The report of the Immigration Commission on steerage conditions resulted from investigations by agents of the Commission who, in the guise of immigrants, traveled in the steerage of 12 trans-Atlantic ships.
In the United Kingdom, the first such law was the The first regulation of the conditions of transportation by sea in Canada was the Growth of the United States as an attractive immigrant destinationRepeal and replacement by the Carriage of Passengers Act of 1855Impact on historical archives and future immigration debatesGrowth of the United States as an attractive immigrant destinationRepeal and replacement by the Carriage of Passengers Act of 1855Impact on historical archives and future immigration debates Until this Act, the United States Congress had placed no limitations regulating voluntary migration. "Section 4 of the Steerage Act led to the first set of federal records on the composition of the flow of migrants to the United States.The regulation of the conditions of sea transportation began in the 19th century, generally before meaningful restrictions on migration were imposed.