Scott Act of 1888

Scott Act of 1888
Long titleAn Act a supplement to an act entitled "An Act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese," approved the sixth day of May eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
Enacted bythe 50th United States Congress
EffectiveOctober 1, 1888
Citations
Public law50-1064
Statutes at Large25 Stat. 504
Legislative history
  • Introduced in the House as H.R. 11336 by William Lawrence Scott (D–PA) on July 15, 1888
  • Passed the Senate on August 8, 1888 (40-3, in lieu of S. 3304)
  • Passed the House on August 20, 1888 (Passed) with amendment
  • House agreed to House amendment on September 13, 1888 (Passed)
  • Signed into law by President Grover Cleveland on October 1, 1888

The Scott Act was a United States law that prohibited U.S. resident Chinese laborers from returning to the United States. Its main author was William Lawrence Scott of Pennsylvania, and it was signed into law by U.S. President Grover Cleveland on October 1, 1888. It was introduced to expand upon the Chinese Exclusion Act passed in 1882 and left an estimated 20,000-30,000 Chinese outside the United States at the time of its passage stranded, with no option to return to their U.S. residence.

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