Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1866-03-07

the Commissioner shall cause such land,
from time to time TO be valued, allotted
assigned, and sold in manner and form
PROVIDED IN the fourth section Of this act
at price not less than the cost thereof II
the United States.
SEC. I. ind De it FURTHER enacted That
whenever in any State or district in which
the ordinary course Of judicial proceed
lngs has been interrupted by the rebel
hon, and wherein IN consequence Of any
State or local law, ordinance, police or
other regulation. custom or prejudice anv
0f the civil rights or immunities belong
my 70 white persons, including the right
+ to make and enforce contracts. to sue, be
parties, and give evidence to inherit. pur-
chase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real
and personal property, and to have full
and equal benefit Of all laws and proceed
ings for security Of person and estate in
cludlng the constitutional right Of bearing
arms, are refused or denied to negroes
mulattOas, freedmen, refugees, oranv other
persons, on account Of race. color, or anv
previous condition of slavery or involun-
tary servitudc, or wherein thev or anv Of
them are subjected to any other or differs
ent punishment pains, or penalties for the
commission Of any act or offence, than are
prescribed for white persons committing
like acts or offences, it shall be the duty
Of the President Of the United States.
through the commissioner, to ext nd
military protection over all cases affecting
such persons so Disseminated against
SEC :. ind Il IS further enacted, That
any person who under color of any State
or local law, ordinance police or other re
gulatIon or custom shall in any State or
district in which the ordinary course Of
judicial proceeding has been intcrrupted
by the rebellion, and in which the p.ivil-
eye OF the writ Of habeas corpus was sus-
pended on the first day Of February,
eighteen hundred and sixty>six, subject,
or cause to be subjected, any negro, mulat~
to, freedman, refugee, or other person, on
account Of race or color, or any previous
condition OF slavery or involuntary servi-
tude, or for any other cause, to the de-
privation OF any civil right secured to
white persons, or to any other or different
punishment than white persons arc sub
lect to Tor the commission Of like acts or
offences, shall be deemed guilty of mis-
dcmeanor and be punished by fine not
exceeding one thousand dollars, or impris~
onment not exceeding one wear, or both
and lt shall be the duty of the officers and
the agents OF this Bureau to take iurisdic~
.ion of, and hear and determine all often
ccs committed against, tie provisions OF
this section and also Of all cuses affecting
negroes, mulattoes, freedmen. refugees. or
other persons who are Disseminated
against in any Of the particulars men
toned in the preceding section Of this
act, under such rules and regulations rs
the frcsidentof tnc United States, through
the War Department. shall rrcscribc.-
The jurisdiction conferred by this and the
preceding section on the officers and agents
Of this bureau shall cease and determine
whenever the discrimination on account
of which 1t is conferred ceases, and in no
event to bacxcrcised i'm any STATE in which
the ordinary course Of judicial proceed
in@s has not been interrupted by the re
tellion. nor in any such State after said
state shall have been fully restored in all
Is constitutional relations TO the United
states, and the courts Of the Stare and Of
the United States within the same are not
disturbed or stopped in the paaceabIe
caursc Of justice.
See. repeals all acts inconsistent with
this one.