The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-12
The Civil Rights Bill.
We publish below the Civil Rights
Bill as it recently passed the Congress
over the Presidents Veto:

Bill as it recently passed the Congress
over the Presidents Veto:
''Be it enacted by the Senate and House i Repre-
setatives Of the United States Of Arneica IN Congress
assembled, That all persons born in the United
States and not subject to any foreign Power, ex,
Guiding Indians not taxed, arc hereby declared
to be citizens of the United States and such elti-
Zens of every race and color, without regard to
any previous condition of slavery or involuntary
servitude, except punishment for crime
whereof the party shall ave been duly convicted,
shall have the same right in every State and Ter
ritory i'll the United States to make and enforce
contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence,
real and personal property, and to full and equal
benefit of all laws and proceedings for the securi-
citizens and shall be subject to like punishment,
pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law,
statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom TO the
SEC B. And be it f,nthe' enacted, That any per-
son who, under color of any law, statute, ordi
nance, regulation, custom, shall subject, or
cause to be subjected, any inhabtant of any State
or Territory to the deprivation of any right Sc
cured or protected by this act, or to different
such person having at any time been held in a
condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, eX-
cept punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, or by reason of
his color 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.
trict courts of the United States, within their
spectivc districts, shall have, exclusively of the
courts of the several States, cognlzance 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 judicial
tribunals of the State 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, or against any officer, civil
or military, or other person, for arrest or impri
sonment, trespasses, or wrongs done or commit
ted by virtue under color of authority derived
from this act or the act establishing bureau for
the relief of freedmen and refugees, and all acts
amcndatory thereof; or for refusing to do any
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 or circuit court in the manner prescribed by
the Act relating to habeaS corpus and regulating
judicial proceedings in certain cases. approved
March three, eighteen hundred and siXty-threc,
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
such laws suitable to carry the same into
effect but in all cases where such laws not
adapted to the object, or are deficient in the pro-
visions necessary to furnish suitable remedies and
punish Offences against law the common law, as
modifed.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 rs 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 infliction 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, imprisoning, 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-
mn cd nv he Of he init
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, or bailed as the case may be,
for trial before such court of the United States
territorial court by the act has cognzance of
the offence. And with the view to affordng rea-
sonable protection to all persons in their consti
tutiona rights of equality before the law, without
distinction of race or color, or previous condi-
ton of slavery or involuntary servitude, except
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 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 as they are authorized by law
to exercise with regard to other offences against
the laws of the United States.
SEC. 5. 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 marshal or dep |
uty 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 |
10 1s
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 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 so ap- |
pointed to execute any warrant or process as |
aforesaid shall have authority to summon and |
call to their aid the bystanders the posse COM
itatus of the proper county, such portion of |
the land and naval forces of the United States or
the militia, may be necessary to the perfor-
nance of the duty with which they are charged, |
and to insure faithful observance of the clause |
of the Constitution 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, 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 any person for whose ap-
prehension such warrant process may have |
been issued, or shall rescue or attempt to rescue
such person from the custody of the officer, 9TH
er persons persons, those lawfully assisting
as aforesaid when so arrested pursuant to the |
authority herein given and declared, shall aid,
abet assist any person SO arrested aforesaid,
directly or Indirectly to escape from the custody
of the officer or other person legally authorized
as aforesaid, shall harbor conceal any person
for whose arrest warrant or process shall have
been issued as aforesaid to prevent his dis
covery and arrest after notice 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 fine not exceeding one
Thousand dollars, and Imprisonment not exceed
ing six months, by indictment and conviction be-
fore the district court the United States for
district in which said offence may have been
committed, or before the proper court of GRIM
inal jurisdiction, if committed within any one of
the organized Territories of the United States.
SEQ 7. Asad be it further enacted, That the dis
tlict 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 similar servi-