The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-16
The Civil Rights Bill.
We publish below the Civil Rights
Bill as it recently passed the Congress
3,,rf,,, The Presidents Veto: D

{. Re- IL enacted bu the Senate and House # Repro
seatatiges the United States Of Aeaea ~ oT,tsS
States and not subject to any foreign rover, eA
eluding Indians, not taxed, arc hereby declared
tn he Citizens 81 the United States and such cltl-
zens of every race and color, without regard to
any previous condition of slavery or involuntary
servitude, except as u punishment lor cTinie
whereof the party shall ave been duly convicted,
shall have the same right in every State and Ter
ritory in the United States to make ana enforce
contracts to sue, be parties, and give eyloence,
real and personal property, and to full and equal
benefit of all laws and proceedings Tor Ihe secuIl
ty of person and property as Is enjoyed
palms. and penalties, and to none other, any law,
Statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to the
contrary Notwithstanding
SEC 2. And be it further enacted, Inat any per
son who, under color of any law, stature orol
nance, regulation, or custom, snail supJec1l, OF
cause to be subjected any innaDltaRt o. any
cured or protected by this act, or TO oiHerehG
punishment, pains, or penalties on account OF
such person having ut any time been heid IN
condition of slavery or involuntary servitude ex-
cept as d punishment for crime WHEREOF the party
shall have been duly convicted, or by reason OF
his color or race, than is prescribed for the pun
ishment of white persons, shall be deemed gunty
of q misdemeanor, and, on convlrtlon, shall DC
punished by fine not exceeding one thousana ooi
lars or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or
BOTH in the discretion OF the court .
SEC 8. Amd be it further enacted, That the dis
trict courts of the United States within their re-
spectye districts, shall have, exclusively OF the
courts of the several States, cognizance OF all
crimes and offences committed against the provi-
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 prosecution
civil or criminal, has been orr shall be commenced
in any State court against any such person, for
any cause whatsoever, or against any officer, civil
or military, other person, for arrest or lmprl-
sonment, trespasses, or wrongs done or commit
ted by virtue or under color OF authority derived
from this act the act establishing Il bureau Tor
the relief of freedmen and refugees, ana an acts
amendatory thereof; or 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 or 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 siNty-threc,
and all acts amendatory 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 ofthe United States, so far
as 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 as 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, aud, if of
criminal nature, in the infection of punishment
on the party found guilty.
SEC T. And be it further enacted, That the dis
trict attorneys, marshas, 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,
bailing 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-
cIally 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
of this act, and cause him them to be arrested
and imprisoned, or bailed as the case may be,
for trial before such court of the United States
territorial court as by the act has cognizance of
the offence. And with the view to affording
sonable protection to all persons in their consti
tutonal rights of equality before the law, without
distinction of race or color, or previous condi-
ton of slavery or involuntary scrvitude, except
punishment for crime, whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, and to the prompt
discharge of the duties of this act, it 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, so as to afford speedy
and convenient means for the arrest and eXaminS
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 by this act, they are authorized by law
to exercise with regard to other offences against
SEC. 5. ind be ii further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of all Inarshals and deputy marshals
to obey and execute all warrants and precepts is
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 use all proper
means diligently to execute the same he shall, on
conviction 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
commissioners to execute their duties faithfully
and efficiently, in conformity with the Constitu
ton of the United States and the requirements of
this act, they are hereby authorized and empow
cred, within their counties respectively, to ap-
point, i'll writing, under their hands, any one or
more suitable persons, from time to time, to
cute all such warrants and other process may
be issued by them in the lawful performance of
their respective duties; and the persons APP
pointed to execute any warrant or process
aforesaid shall have authority to summon and
call to their aid the bystandcrs the posse
itatttS of the proper county, or such portion of
the land and naval forces of the United States,
the militia, as may be necessary to the perfor-
nance of the duty with which they are charged,
and to insure faithful observance of the clause
of the Constitution which prohibits slavery, in
conformity 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 arc issued.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That any per-
son " no shall knowingly and wilifuly obstruct,
hinder, or prevent any officer, or other person
charged with the execution of any warrant or
process issued under the provisions of this act
or them, from arrcsting any person for whose ap.
prehension such warrant or process may have
been issued, or shall rescue attempt to rescue
such person from the custody of the officer, 9TH
or persons or persons, or those lawfully assisting
as aforesaid, when so arrested pursuant to the
authority herein given and declared, or shall aid
abet, assist any person so arrested aforesaid
directly or indirectly, TO escape from the custody
of the officer or other person legally authorized
aforesaid, or shall harbor conceal any person
for whose arrest a warrant or process shall have
been issued MS aforesaid, as to prevent his dis
covery and arrest after notice or knowledge of the
fact that a warrant has been issued for the appre-
hension of such person, shall, for either of said
offences, 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
SEQ. z. A'd be it further enacted That the dis
tlict 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 similar seryi-
ces in other cases; and in all where the pro-
ceedings are before commissioner, he shall be
entitled to fee often dollars in full for his servi