The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-05
The Civil Rights Bill.
Wepublish below the Civil Rights
Bill as it recently passed the Congress
nuar. the RroSidant,S Veto.


States and not subject to any fo-sign Power ex,
Guiding Indians, not taxed, arc hereby declared
to be citizens of the United States and such clti-
Zens of every race and color, without regard to
any previous condition of slavery or involuntary
servitude, 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
be parties ana %oG give end
real and personal property, and to full and equal
benefit of all laws and proceedings for the securi-
ty of person and property as is enjoyed by white
citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment,
pains and penalties and to none other any LAW t%
SEC :. Amd be it .fu,fher enacted That any per-
| son who, under color of any law, statute, ord1
nance, regulation, custom, shall subject, or
cause to be subjected any inhabitant OF any State
or Territory to the deprv alton of any right Sc
cured or protected by this act, or to different
| such person having at any time been held III
condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, ex-
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 a msdemeanor, 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 it further enacted, That the dis
trct courts of the United States, within their re-
spective districts, shall nave, exclusively OF the
courts of the several States, cogniZancc OF all
crimes and offences committed against the proyi-
sions OF this act, and also, concnrrenty with the
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 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 mpri-
sonment trespasses, or wrongs done or commit
ted by virtue under color of authority derived
from this act the act establishing a bureau for
the relief of freedmen and refugees, and all acts
amendatOry thereof; or for refusing to do any ac-
upon the ground that II 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 hdGeds corpus and regulating
judicial proceedings in certain cases. approved
March three, eighteen hundred and siXty-thrce,
and all acts amcndatory thereof. The jursdic-
ton 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-
formty with the laws ofthc United States, so far
such laws are suitable TO carry the same into
effect; but in all cases where such laws are not
adapted to the object or are deficient i'll the pro-
visions necessary To furnish suitable remedies and
punish offences against law, the common law,
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 Is 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
a criminal nature, in the intliction of punishment
the party found guilty.
u T. y
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, imprisoning, or
blling 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-
cIaly 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 or them to be arrested
and imprisoned. bailed as the case may be,
for trial before such court of the United States
territorial court us by the act has cogniZancc of
the offence And with the view to attording rea-
sonablc 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 involuntary servitude, except
as IL punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have beer 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 eXamlna-
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, as they are Authorized by law
to exercise with regard to other offences against
the laws of the United States.
SEC s. And be it 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 mfrSnll or ucp-
utv 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 of one
thousand dollars, to the 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 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 may
be issued by them in the lawful performance of
their respective duties; and the persons APP
pointed to execute any warrant process as
aforesaid shall have authority to summon and
call to their aid the bystanders or the posse
ifatus of the proper county, or such portion of
the land and naval forces of the United States or
the militia, may be necessary to the pertor-
nance of the duty with which they charged,
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 Territory within
which they arc issued
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That any per-
son who shall knowingly and willfully obstruct,
hinder or prevent officer, or 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 any person for whose ap-
prehension such warrant or process may have
been issued, or shall rescue or attempt to rescue
such person from he custody of the officer, 9th
er persons or persons, or those lawfully assisting
as aforesaid, when so arrested pursuant to the
authority herein given and declared or shall aid,
abet, or assist any person arrested as aforesaid
directly indirectly, to escape from the custody
of the officer or other person legally authorized
as aforesaid or shall harbor conceal any person
for whose arrest warrant or process shall have
been issued aforesaid, to prevent his dis
covery and arrest after notice or knowledge OF the
fact that warrant has been issued for the appre-
hension of such person, shall, for either of said
offences, be subject to a fine not exceeding
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
inal Jurisdiction, if committed within any one of
the organized Territories of the United States.
SEQ z. A'ad be it further enacted, That the dis
tic 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 similrr servi-
ces in other cases; and in all cases where the pro-
-ceedings are before commissioner, he shall be
entitled to fee often dollars in full for his servi
ces in each case inclusive of all services incident
to such arrest and examination. The person