The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-01-11
A BILL WHICH SHOULD BECOME 4
LAW.

We are indebted 10 the Washington
correspondent If the Sacramento Union
for the following copy Of Bill which
Senator Stewnrt has prepared and
winch he will, mt an early day intro
luce into the Senate:
AN ACT to Secure to All Persons the Equal
Protection Of the Laws.
Be il enacted BY the Senate and House of
Representatives the United States of Amer
:ca, in Congress assembled, That all persons
within the jurisdiction of the United States,
Indians not taxed excepted, shall have the
.ame right in every State and Territory in the
United States TO make and enforce contracts.
to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the
full and equall eneft OF all laws and proceed
in2s for the security of person and property
as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be
subject To like punishments. pains, penalties.
taxes, licenses and exactions of every kind,
and none other, any Law, statue. ordinance,
regulation or custom TO the contrary notwi;h-
standing. And no tax charge shall be
imposed or enforced BY aLy State upon any
person ENGRAVING thereto, which Is not equal
" imposed and enforced upon every person
emigrating to said State from any foreign
country, and any law of anv State in conflict
With this provision is hereby declared null and
void.
Sec 9 And be it turtle: enacted, that any
persun " no under color of any law, statute, or
einanee, regulation or custom, shall subject
or cause to be subjected any inha bitant of any
State or Territory TO the deprivation of any
rights secured protected by this Act, or to
different punishment, pain NJ penalties, on
account of such person being an alien, or BY
reason of his color or race, than is prescribed
Goo ~. n ~ xrhY hall no
deemed guilty Of mi>demeanor. and on con
yic,inn. shall be punished BY fine not exceed
ing 81 900 OF imprisonment not exceeding one
year. or both, in the discretion Of the Court.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, that the
''Act tn protect all persons in the United
States in their civil rights, and furnish the
means of vindication, passed April y. 1866,
Is hereby re-enac,ed. and said Act, except
the first and second sections thereof, is here
oy referred to and made part Of this Act.
The intent as we'll as the necessity
for such a law as this is evident t"
those who have watched the course of
the Copperheads of the Pacific Coast
with relation TO the Chinese who are
among US. The dictates Of humanity.
If nothing else, demand a statute of
this nature and We are glad that thus
Bill emanares from a Senator OF the
State of Nevada. The sooner Congress
passes this or a similar lax the better;
for already the California Legislature,
rampant ms it is with reckless Copper |
beadlsm, is debating system of laws
which ~i,l be but repetition of that
outrageous statute passed some years
since aud designated by the name of
Foreign Miners License Law, by the
in the mines was TO be made to pay tour
collars for the fret month aud : monthly
increase of two dollars every mont.
thereafter. IL is needed, moreover, to
suppress those miserable, cowardly |
devices Of demseogues and Agrarians,
Aori Coolie Societies; aud to avert in
the future such demonstrations as have
disgrac-d Humboldt ard Storey COun |
ties. These are some of the immediate
~hich arise in favor Of
Senator Stewart's Bill and at the
same time the pending Treaty with
China makes it imperative that such
law shOald be enacted and put into
practical force, forthwith.
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