The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-06-09

committed against the provisions OF this act
may be prosecuted by the Indictment OF grand
Jury, or, in cases of crimes and offences not IN
famous. the prosecution may be either by IN
dictment or information filed by the district
attorney in court having jurisdiction.
Sec. 9. That the district 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 baillng
offenders against the laws of the United States,
and every other officer who may be specially
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 pro-
visions of this act, and cause him or them to be
arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case
NAV be; for trial before such court of the Uni
ted States or Territorial court as has cognizance
of the offence. And with view to afford rea-
sonable protection to all persons in their con-
stutiona1 right to vote without distinction OF
race, color, or previous condition of servitude,
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 ST tes,
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 au-
thorized 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 author
lied by law to exercise with regard to other
offences against the laws of the United States.
SEC. 10. That it shall be the dutyof all mar
shals and deputy marshals to obey and execute
all warrants and precepts issued under the pro-
visions of this act, when to them directed and
should any marshal or deputy-marshal re-
fuse to receive such warrant or other process
when rendered, or to use all proper means dill
gently to execute the same, he shall, on
conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of one
thousand dollars, to the use of the person de-
prived of the rights conferred by this act. And
the better to enable the said commissioners to
execute their duties faithfully and efficiently,
in conformity with the Constitution of the
United States and the requirements OF this act,
they are hereby authorized and empowered,
within their districts respectively, to appoint,
in writing, under their hands, any one or more
suitable persons, from time to time, to execute
all such warrants and other process as 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 or posse conita-
tbs of the proper county, or such portion OF the
land or naval forces of the United States, or OF
the militia, as may be necessary to the perfor-
nance of the duty with which they are charg-
ed, and to insure faithful observance OF the
fifteenth amendment to the Constitution OF the
United States and such warrants shall run
and be executed by said officers anywhere in
the State or Territory within which they are
issued
Sec. IL. That any person who shall know
ingly and wilfully obstruct, hinder, or prevent
any officer or other person charged with the
execution of any warrant or process issued un-
der the provisions of this act, or any person or
persons lawfully assisting him or them from
arresting any person for whose apprehension
such warrant or process may have been issued,
or shall rescue, or attempt to rescue, such per-
son from the custody of the officer or other
person or persons, or those lawfully assisting as
aforesaid, when so arrested pursuant to the au-
thority herein given and declared, or shall aid,
abet, or assist any person so arrested as afore-
said, directly or indirectly, to escape from the
custody of the officer or other person legally
authorized as aforesaid, or shall harbor or con-
ceal any person for whose arrest warrant or
process shall have been issued as aforesaid, 80
as to prevent his discovery and arrest after. no.
tice or knowledge of the fact that warrant
has been issued for the apprehension of such
person, shall, for either of said offences, be
subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand
dollars, or imprisonment mot exceeding six
months, or both, at the discretion of the court,
on conviction before the district or circuit
court of the United States for the district or
circuit in which said offence may have been
committed, or before the proper court of crirni-
nal Jurisdiction, if committed within any one
of the organized Territories of the United
States.
Sec. IL. That the commissioners, district
attorneys, the marshals, their deputies, and the
clerks of the said district, circuit and territori
al courts shall be paid for their services the like
fees as may be allowed to them for similar SER
vices in other cases. The person or persons au-
thorized to execute the process to be issued by
such commissioners for the arrest OF offenders
against the provisions ofths act shall be entitled
the usual fees allowed to the marshal for an ar
rest for each person he or they may arrest and
take before any such commissioner as aforesaid,
with such other fees as may be deemed reason
able by such commissioner for such other addi-
tional services as may be necessarily performed
by him or them, such as attending at the
examination, keeping the prisoner in custody,
and providing him with food and lodging du-
ring his detention and until the final determi-
nation of such commissioner, and in general for
performing such other duties as may be requir-
ed in the premises such fees to be made up in
conformity with the fees usually charged by
the officers of the court of justice within the
proper district or county as near as may be
practicable, and paid out of the Treasury of
the United States on the certificate of the judge
of the district within which the arrest is made,
and to be recoverable from the dcfendanta as part
of the judgment in case of conviction.
Sec. Is. That it shall be lawful for the
President of the United States to employ such
part of the land or naval forces of the United
States or of the militia, as shall be necessary
to aid in the execution Of judicial process is
sued under this act.
SEC. IA. That whenever any person shall