The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-28
We publish below the Civil Rights
Bill as it recently passed the Congress
over the Presidents Veto:

over the Presidents Veto:
" Be 1T enacted by the Senate and House f Repre-
Sentatiges Of the United Suites Of Anericd IN Congress
assembled, That all persons born in the United
States and not subject to any foreign Power, eX-
Guiding Indians, not taxed, hereby declared
to be citizens of the United States and such cit-
Zens OF every race and color, without regard to
any previous condition of slavery or involuntary
servltude, except as punishment for crime
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 enforce
contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence,
to inherit, purchase, lease, SELL hold, and convey
real and personal property, and to full and equal
benefit of all laws and proceedings for the securi-
ty of person and property is enjoyed by white
pains, ami penalties, and to none other, any law
statute, ordinance regulation, custom to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
SEC. =. and be 1t further enacted That any per-
son who, under color of any law, statute, ordi
nance, regulation, custom, ahall subject, or
cause to be subjected, any inhabtant of any State
or Territory to the deprva alton of any right Sc
cured or protected by this act, or to different
punishment, pains. or-penalties on account of
condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, ex-
cept as Il 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
lshment of white persons, shall be deemed guilty
of a 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. aud be it further enacted, That the dis
trct courts of the United States, within their re-
spective Districts shall have, exclusively of the
courts of the several States, cognZance of all
crimes and offences committed against the proVi-
sions of this act and Also concnrrently 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 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
officer
or military, or other person, for arrest or impri
sonment, trespasses, or wrongs done or commit
ted by virtue or under color of authority derived
from this act or the act establishing L bureau for
the relief of freedmen and refugees, and all 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
trct or circuit court in the manner prescribed by
the sAct relating hdbeas corpus and regulating
judicial proceedings in certain cases. approved
March three, eighteen hundred and siXty-three,
and all acts amendatory thereof. The jurisdic-
tion in civil and criminal matters hereby confer
red the district and circuit courts of the Unit
ed States shall be exercised and enforced in con-
fornlity with the laws of the United States, far
such laws suitable to carry the same into
effect; but in all cases where such laws are 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 intliction of punishment
on the party found guilty
SEC. 4. And be it turther enacted, That the dis
trict attorneys, marshals, and deputy marshals of
the United States, the commissioners appointed
by the circuit and territorial of the United
States, with powers of arrcsting, impriSony or
bailine offenders against the laws of the United
States, the officers and agents of the Frecdmcn's
Bureau and every other officer who may be spc-
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 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 atfordin@
sonablc protection to all persons in their consti
tutiOnal rights OF equality before the law, without
distinction of race Or color, or previous condi-
ton Of slavery involuntary servitude, except
punishment tor 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 ~ afford Il speedy
and convenient means for the arrest and cXamina-
ton of persons charged with Il violation of this
act. And such commissioners are hereby author
lied and required to exercise aud discharge all
the powers and duties conferred on them by this
act, and the same duties with regard to offences
to exercise with regard to other offences against
the laws of the United States.
SEC. 5. 1nd be it further cnacted That it shall
be the duty of all marShalS 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 in writing, under their hands, any one
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 so ap-
pointed to execute any warrant or process as
aforesaid shall have authority to summon and
call to their aid the bystandcrs or the posse
udtlLs 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 pcrfor-
nance of the duty with which they charged,
and to insure faithful observance of the clause
of the Constitut on 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. g. And be itfn,ther enacted That any per-
son Mho shall knowingly and Willfully obstruct,
hinder, prevent any officer, other person
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 anv person for whose ap-
prehension such warrant or process may have
been issued, shall rescue or attempt to rescue
such person from he custody of the officer 9th
er persons 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 as aforesaid
directly indirectly, to escape from the custody
of the officer other person legally authorized
osaf,r o1l har n r conceal
for whose arrest a warrant or process shall have
been issued as aforesaid, to prevent his dis
covery and arrest after notice or knowledge of the
fact that a warrant has been issued for the appre
hcnsion of such person, shall, for either of said
offences, be subject to a fine not exceeding one
thoussnd dollars, and imprisonment not exceed
ing six months, by Indictment and conviction be-
fore the district 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
arirs of the IInited StateS