The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-12
The Civil Rights Bill.
We publish below the Civil Rights
Bill as it recently passed the Congress
over the Presidents Veto:

| fludnU Indians, not taxed, arc hereby QcclaTeQ
to be Citizens of the United States and such citi
zens of every race and color, without regard to
any previous condition of slavery or involuntary
servitude, except as punishment ior erine
shall have the same right in every State and Ter
| ritory in the United States to make and enforce
contracts, to sue be parties, ana give eTiaemee,
real and personal property, and to full and equal
benefit of all laws and proceedings for the secur1-
| ty of person and property as is enjoyed by Whlte
| citizens and shall be subject to like punishment,
pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law,
statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom TO the
| contrary notwithstanding.
SEC. :. Ind be it further enacted, That any per-
son who under color of any law, statute, ordi
nance, regulation, or CUSTOM shall subject, or
cause to be subjected any lnhaDltant OF any state
| or Territory to the deprivation of any right Sc
| cured or protected by this act, or to different
punishment, pains, or penalties on account OF
| such person having at any time been held i'll
condition of slavery or involuntary seryitude, eN-
cept as IL punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, or by reason OF
his color race than is prescribed Tor the pun
ishment of white persons, shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall De
punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dol
lars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, OF
both, in the discretion of the court
SEC. 3. And be 1T further enacted, That the dis
trict courts of the United States within their re-
spective Districts shall have, exclusively OF the
courts of the several States, cogniZance of all
crimes and offences committed against the provl-
sions of this act and also, concurrently with the
circuit courts of the United States, OF all causes,
civil and criminal, affecting persons who are de
MED or cannot enforce in the courts or Judicial
tribunals of the State or locality where they may
be- any of the rights secured to them by the first
section of this act; and if any suit or prosecution
civil criminal, has been or shall be commenced
in any State court against any such person, Tor
any cause whatsoever against any officer, civil
r military or other person, for arrest or lmprl-
sonmcnt, trespasscs, or wrongs done or commit
ted by virtue under color of authority derived
from this act or the act establishing bureau for
the relief of freedmen and refugees, and all acts
amendatory thereof; orr for refusing to do any ac-
upon the ground that it would be inconsistent
with this act, such defendant shall have the right
to remove such cause for trial to the proper dist
trict circuit court in the manner prescribed by
the Act relating to hdbedS corpus and regulating
judicial proceedings in certain cases, approved
March three eighteen hundred and siXty-thrcc,
and all acts anCndatory thereof. The jurisdic-
ton in civil and criminal matters hereby confer
red on the district and circuit courts OF the Unit
ed States shall be exercised and enforced in con-
formity with the laws of the United States, 50 far
such laws are suitable to carry the same into
effect; but in all cases where such laws are not
adapted to the object are deficient in the pro-
visions necessary to furnish suitable remedies and
punish offences against law, the common law, as
modified and changed by the constitution and
statutes OF the State wherein the court having
jurisdiction of the cause, civil or criminal, Is
held so far rs the same is not inconsistent with
the Constitution and laws of the United States,
shall be extended to and govern said courts in
the trial and disposition OF such cause, and, If of
criminal nature, in the intiiction of punishment
the party found guilty.
SEC. + And be Ju,theT enacted, That the dis
trct attorneys, marsiIa!s, and deputy marshals of
the United States, the commissioners appointed
by the circuit and territorial courts of the United
States, with powers OF arresting, imprisoning,
bliling offenders against the laws of the United
States, the officers and agents of the Freedmen's
Bureau, and every other officer who may be Spe
clally empowered by the President OF the United
States, shall be, and they are hereby, specially
authorized and required, at the expense of the
United States, to institute proceedings against all
and every person who shall violate the provisions
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and imprisoned, or bailed the may be,
for trial before such court of the United States
territorial court as by the act has co@niZance of
the offence. And with the view to atfording rea-
sOnabie protection to all persons i'll their cOnsti-
tutiona rights of equality before the law, without
distinction of race color, previous condi-
ton of slavery or involuntary scrvitude, except
As punishment for crime, whereof the party
shall have beer duly convicted, and 10 the prompt
discharge of the duties of this act, il shall be the
duty of the circuit courts of the United States
and the superior courts of the Territories of the
United States, from time to time, to increase the
number of commissioners, : to afford Il speedy
and convenient means for the arrest and eXanin;l-
ton OF persons charged with violation of this
act And such commissioners are hereby author
lied and required to exercise and discharge all
the powers and duties conferred on them by this
act and the same duties with regard to offences
created 10y this act, as they authorized by law
10 exercise with regard to other offences against
the laws of the United States.
SEC. ). And DC ii FURTHER enacted That it shall
be the duty of all Inarshals and deputy marshals
sued under the provisions of this act, when to
them directed and should any marshal or dep
uty marshal refuse to receive such warrant or
other process when rendered, or to all proper
means diligently to execute the same he shall, on
thereof be fined in the sum of one
thousand dollars, to the use of the person upon
whom the accused Is alleged TO have committed
the offence. And the better to enable the said
to execute their duties faithfully
and efficiently, in conformity with the Constitu-
ton of the United States and the requirements of
this act, they hereby authorized and empow-
cred, within their counties respectively, to APP
point, in writing, under their hands. any one or
more suitable persons, from time to time, to exc
cute all such warrants and other process as may
be issued by them in the lawful performance of
their respective duties; and the persons so APP
pointed to execute any warrant or process as
aforesaid shall have authority to summon and
call to their aid the bystanders the posse
itdtIGS of the proper county, such portion of
the land and naval forces of the United States, or
the militia, as may bc necessary to the pcrfor-
nance of the duty with which they are charged,
and to inS faithful observance of the clause
Of the Constitution which prohibits slavery, in
with the provisions of this act; and
said warrants shall run and be executed by said
officers anywhere in the State or Territory within
which they issued.
SEC. 6. A1d be it further enacted That any per-
son " no shall knowingly and willfully obstruct,
charged with the execution of any warrant or
process issued under the provisions of this act,
or any person or persons lawfully assisting him
or them, from arresting any person for whose ap
prehension such warrant or process may have
been issued, Or shall rescue attempt to rescue
such person from he custody of the officer 9th
er persons persons, those lawfully assisting
as aforesaid, when arrested pursuant to the
authority herein given and declared, shall aid,
lbet, assist any person arrested as aforesaid,
directly or indirectly, to escape from the custody
of the officer or other person legally authorized
rs aforesaid, or shall harbor conceal any person
for whose arrest warrant process shall have
been issued as aforesaid, to prevent his dis
covery and arrest after notice knowledge of the
fact that warrant has been issued for the appre-
hension of such person, shall, for either of said
be subject to fine not exceeding one
Thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceed
ing six months, by indictment and conviction be-
fore the district court ofthe United States for the
district in which said offence may have been
committed, or before the proper court of GRIM
inal jurisdiction, if committed within any one of
the organized Territories of the United States.
SEC. Z. And be it further enacted, That the dis
tict attorneys, the marshals, their deputies, and
the clerks of the said district and Territorial
courts shall be paid for their services the like
fees as may be allowed to them for simil;r servi-
ces in other cases. and in all cases where the pro-
ceedings are before commissioner, he shall be
entitled to fee of ten dollars in full for his servi
in each case, inclusive of all services incident
to such arrest and examination. The person or
persons authorized to execute the process to be
issued by such commissioners for the arrest of
offenders against the provisions of this act shall
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