The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-26
The Civil Rights Bill.
We publish below the Civil Rights
Bill as it recently passed the Congress
over the Presidents Veto

"Be it enacted By the Senate and House # Repr
seutatises of te United States of Anerica in Cozsgre
assembled, That all persons born in the Unite
Guiding Indians, not taxed, arc hereby declare
to be citizens of the United States; and such cit
zens of every race and color, without regard t
any previous condition of slavery or involuntar
servitude, except as punishment for Grim
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 and enforc
contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence
to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and conve.
real and personal property, and to full and equa
benefit all laws and proceedings for the securi
ty of person and property as is enjoyed by whit
citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment
pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law
statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to thu
! contrary Notwithstanding
SEC. 2. Ind be it further enacted, That any per
son who, under color of any law, statute, ordi
nance, regulation, custom, shall subject, Of
to be subjected, any inhabitant 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 in 6
condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, ex
cept as u 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 guilty
of misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be
punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dol
lars, or Imprisonment not exceeding one year, or
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-
courts of the several States, cogniZance of all
crimes and offences committed against the provi-
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 prosecution
civil or criminal, has been or shall be commenced
in any State court against any such person, for
any canSe whatsoever against any officer, civil
or military, or other person, for arrest or impr-
Sonment, treSpaSSes, wrongs done or commit
ted by virtue or 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; or for refusing to do any &C
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 hdbeaS corpus and regulating
| judicial proceedings in certain cases. approved
| March three, eighteen hundred and siXty-thrce,
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 of the United States, SO far
| as such laws are suitable to carry the same into
effect; but in all cases where such laws not
adapted to the object, 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 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, and if of
q criminal nature, in the infection of punishment
on the party found guilty.
Sec. 4. Ind be it further enacted, That the dis
trict attorneys marshals, and deputy marshals of
the United States, the commissioners appointed
by the circuit and territorial courts of the United
States, with powers OF arresting, imprisonng or
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 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, bailcd as the case NAV be-
for trial before such court of the United States or
territorial court as by the act has cognzance of
the offence. And with the view to affordng rea- |
sonable protection tn all persons in their cOnsti
tutiona rights of equality before the law, without
distinction of race or color, previous condi- |
ton of slavery or involuntary servtude, except |
as punishment for crime, whereof the party |
discharge of the duties of this act it shalt 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 examina-
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 US they are authorized by law
to exercise with regard to other offences against
the laws of the United States.
SEC. 3. And be IL 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
lty marshal refuse to receive such warrant or
other process when rendered, or to 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
he offence. And the better to enable the said
md efficiently, in conformity with the Constitu-
ion of the United States and the requirements of
his act, they are hereby authorized and empow-
,red, within their counties respectively, to ap-
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
De issued by them in the lawful performance of
heir respective duties; and the persons SO ap-
pointed to execute any warrant or process as
lfOresaid shall have authority to summon and
all to their aid the bystanders or the posse COM
tdtus of the proper county, or such portion of
he land and naval forces of the United States, or
he militia, as may be necessary to the perfor-
nance of the duty with which they are charged,
md to insure a faithful observance of the clause
WITH e of in
aid warrants shall run and be executed by said
,ficers anywhere in the State or Territory within
SEC. 6. And be itta1rther enacted, That any per-
on who shall knowingly and willfillly obstruct,
Under, or prevent an, officer, or other person
harged with the execution of any warrant or
process issued under the provisions of this act,
n any person or persons lawfully assisting him
n them, from arresting any person for whose ap
such warrant or process may have
een issued, or shall rescue or attempt to rescue
UGH person from the custody of the officer 9TH
r persons or persons, or those lawfully assisting
s aforesaid, when so arrested pursuant to the
uthority herein given and declared, shall aid,
bet, or assist any person 80 arrested aforesaid
irectly or indirectly, to escape from the custody
f the officer or other person legally authorized
S aforesaid, or shall harbor conceal any person
Or whose arrest warrant or process shall have
cen issued as aforesaid, SO to prevent his dis
overy and arrest after notice or knowledge of the
lct that a warrant has been issued for the appre-
ension of such person, shall, for either of said
fences be subject to fine not exceeding one
loussnd dollars, and Imprisonment not exceed
~ six months, by indictment and conviction be-
,rc the district court ofthe United States for the
istrict in which said offence may have been
or before the proper court of GRIM
lal Jurisdiction, if committed within any one of
he organized Territories of the United States.
SEC. T. Aaad be it further enacted, That the dis
let attorneys, the marshals, their deputies, and
lie clerks of the said district and Territorial
ourts shall be paid for their services the like
les may be allowed to them for similrr servi-
IS in other cases; and in all cases where the pro-
edings are before commissioner, he shall be
tn ftaO of in fi11If for n