The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-15
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
First Session of the 4ed Congress.
PUBLISHED By AuTHoRrrY.l
tGrSEnAL NAruan-No. 1O.l

Be it enacted by tho Senate and House
OF Representatives, of the United States
Of America in Congress assembled, That
any person who, under cooi of any law,
statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or
usage of any State, shall subject, or cause
to be subjected, any person within the jur-
isdiction of the United States 10 the depri-
walton of any rights, privileges, or immu-
mites secured by the constitution of the
United States, any such law, statute, ordi-
nance, regulation, custom, or usage of the
State to the contrary Notwithstanding,
shall be liable to the party injured in any
action at law, suit in equity, or other proper
proceeding for redress such proceeding to
be prosecuted Ia the several district or cir
cult courts of the United States, with and
subject to the same rights of appeal, review
upon error, and other remedies provided in
like cases in such courts, under the provi-
sons Of the act of the ninth of April,
1866, entitled IAN act to protect all per-
Sous in the United States in their civil
rights, aud to furnish the means of their
viudicaton and the other remedial laws
Of the United States which are in their
nature applicable in such cases.
Sec 2. That if two or more persons
within any State or Territory of the
United States shall conspire together to
overthrow, or to put down, or to destroy by
force the government of the United States, or
to levy war against the United States, or to
oppose by force the authority of the govern
ment of the United States, or by force, intimi-
dation or threat to prevent, hinder or delay
the execution of any law of the United States,
or by force to seize, take, or possess any
property Of the United States contrary to
the authority thereof, or by force, intimidas
ton or threat. to prevent any person from
accepting or holding any office of trus
or place of confidence under the United
States, or from discharging the duties there
of, or by for ce, intimidation or threat to in.
duce any officer of the United States to leave
any State, district or place, where his duties
as such officer might lawfully be performed, or
to injure him in bis person or property on ac-
count of his lawful discharge of the duties of
his office, or to iujure bis person while engaged
in the lawful discharge of the duties of his
office, or to injure his property SO as to modest,
hinder, interfere with or impede him in the
discharge OF his official duty, or by force, in
timidaton or threat to deter any party or
witness in any court of the United States from
attending such court, or from testifying in any
matter pending in such court, fully, freely and
truthfully, or to injure any such party or wit
ness In his person or property on account of
his having 30 attended or testified, or by
force, intimidation or threat to influence the
verdict, presentment or indictment Of any
juror or grand juror in any court
of the United States, or to ipjure such
juror in bis person or property on account
of any verdict, presentment or indictment
lawfully assented to by him, or on account of
his being or having been such juror, or shall
conspire together, or 60 in disguise upon the
public highway or upon the premises of anoth-
or for ho oil har :y.ls
ly, of depriving any person or any class of per-
sons of the equal protection of the laws, or of
equal privileges or immunites under the laws
or for the purpose of preventing or hindering
the constituted authorities of any State from
giving or securing to all persons within such
State the equal protection of the laws, or shall
conspire together for the purpose of in any
manner impeding, hindering, obstructing, or
defeating the due course of justice in any State
or Territory, with intent to denv to any
citizen of the United States the due and
equal protection of the laws, or to injure any
person in his person or his property for lawfully
enforcing the right of any person or any class
OF persons, to the equal protection of the laws,
or by force, intimidation, or threat to prevent
any citizen OF the United States lawfully emit
tied to vote from giving his support or advoca-
cy in lawful manner towards or in favor of
the election of any lawfully qualified person
as an elector of President or Vice President
u
Congress of the United States, or to injure
any such citizen in his person or property on
account of such support or advocacy, each
and every person SO offending shall be
deemed guilty of high crime, and,
upon conviction thereof in any district
or circuit court of the United States or
district or supreme court of any territory of
the United States having jurisdiction of SINH
lar offences, shall be punished by fine not less
than five hundred nor more than five thousand
dollars, or by imprisonment, with or without |
hard labor, as the court may determine, for q |
period Of not less than six months nor more
than six years, as the court may determine, or
both such fine and Imprisonment as the court
shall determine. And if any one or more per<
sons engaged in any such conspiracy shall do,
or cause to be done, any act in furtherance Of |
the object of such conspiracy, whereby any |
person shall be injured in his person or proper.
ty, or deprived OF having and exercising any |
right or privilege of citizen of the United |
States, the person SO injured or deprived of |
such rights and privileges may have and main
tain an action for the recovery Of damages oc.
casiOned by such injury or deprivation of |
rights and privileges against any one or more
OF the persons engaged in such conspiracy,
such action to be prosecuted in the proper dis
trict or circuit court of the United States.
with and subject to the same rights of appeal,
review upon error, and other remedies provi,
ded in like cases 10 such courts under the |
provisions of the act of April ninth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, entitled Gan act to pro-
tect all persons in the United States in their
civil rights, and to furnish the means of their
SEC. 3. That in all cases where insurrection.
domestic violence, unlawful combinations. or
in any State shall SO obstruct or
hinder the execution of the laws thereof. and
Of the United States, as to deprive any portion
Or class of the people of such State of any of
the rights, privileges, or immunities, or pro.
lection, named in the Constitution and secured
BY this act, and the constituted authorities of
such State shall either be unable to protect or
shall. from any cause, fail in or refuse protec.
lion OF the people in such rights, such facts
'hal be deemed denial by such State of equal
protection OF the laws to which they are en-
titled under the Constitution of the United
states; and in all such cases, or whenever any
uch instruction, violence, and unlawful COM
,ination, or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct
he laws of the United States, or the due exec
'ution thereof or impede or obstruct the due
course Of justice under the same, it shall be
awful for the President, and it shall be his
iuty to take such measures, by the employment
# the militia or the land and naval forces of
be United States, or of either, or by other
means, as he may deem necessary for the sup
'ression OF such insurrection, domestic violence
# combinations; and any person who shall be
rrested under the provisions of this and the
receding section shall be delivered to the mar
hal OF the proper district, to be dealt with ac-