The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-01

the Government tor support, and ne sSaii
provide or cause to be built suitable asy
lums and schools. But no such purchase
shall be made, nor contract for the same
entered upon, nor other expenses incurred,
until after appropriations shall have been
provided by Congress for the general
purposes of this act, out of which payments
for said lands shall be made; and the
Commissioner shall cause such lands from
time to time to be valued, allotted, as
signed and sold, in the manner and form
provided in the preceding sections, provi-
ded that the said lands shall not be sold
for less than the cost thereof to the United
States.
Sec. Z. That whenever in any State or
district in which the ordinary course of
judicial proceedings has been interrupted
by the rebellion, and wherein, in conse-
quence of any State or local law, ordinance,
police, or other regulation, custom or
prejudice, any of the civil rights or i'm
munities belonging to white persons, in
Guiding the right to make and enforce
general contracts, to sue, to be parties and
give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease,
sell: hold and convey real and personal
property, and to have full and equal ben
eft of all laws and proceedings for the
| security of person and estate, are refused
to negroes, mulattoes or freedmen, or ref
ugees, or any other persons on account of
race, color, or any previous condition OF
slavery or involuntary servitnde, except
| as punishment for crime, whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted, or
wherein they, or any of them, are subjected
to any other or different punishment, pains
or penalties, for the commission OF any
acc or offence than are prescribed for
white persons committing ike acts or
offences, it shall be the duty of the Pres
ident of the United States, through the
Commissioner, to extend military protec-
ton and jurisdiction over all cases affect
ing such persons so Disseminated against.
SEC. 8. That any person who, under
color OF any State or local law, ordinance,
police or other regulation or custom, shall
in any State or district in which the or
dinary course of judicial proceedings has
been interrupted by the rebellion, subject
or cause to be subjected any negro, mu-
latto, freedmen, refugee or other person
on account of race or color, or any previous
condition of slavery or involuntary servi-
| tude, except as a punishment for crime;
whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, or for any other cause, to the
deprivation Of any civil right secured to
white persons, or to any other or different
punishment than white persons are subject
to for the commission of like acts or often
ces, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and be punished by a fine not
exceeding $1,000, or Imprisonment not
be the duty of the officers and agents of
this bureau to take jurisdiction of aud hear
ard determine an offence committed
against the provisions Of this section, and
also Of all cases affecting negroes, mulat-
toes, freedmen, refugees or other persons
who are Disseminated against N any of
the particulars mentioned in the preceding
section of this act, under such rules and
regulations as the President, through the
War Department, shall prescribe. The
| jurisdiction conferred by this section on
the officers and agents of this bureau is to
cease and determine whenever the dis
elimination On account of which it is con-
ferred ceases, and in no event to be exer-
cised in any State in which the ordinary
course of judicial proceedings has not been
interrupted by the rebellion, nor in any
! State after it shall have Been fully restored
| in all its constitutional relations to the
! United States, and the courts of the States
and of the United States within the same
are not disturbed or stopped in the peace
| obla courts of Iuctian