Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-04-20
The Ku.Klux BILL

The Ku.Klux BILL
The following is the KuKlux bill as it
finally passed the House of Representa-
tiyes on the 9th:
BE 1t enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives. Of the Uaited States Of Amer
Go. {" under s' color col Of any law, statute, ordi
nance, regulation, custom, or usage Of any State,
sbal subject, cause to be subjected, any person
deprivation OF any rights privileges or immunties
secured by the Constitution of the United States,
shal any euch law, statute, ordinance regulation,
Withstandng, be liable TO the party injured In an
seton law, suit in equity, or other proper pro-
cseding, for redress such proceeding to be prose,
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
1856 entitled An act to protect all persons In the
United States in their civil rights and to furnish the
ser anq be .he IN she,
nature applicable to such cases.
SEC 2. That II two or more persons within any
suire II together to overthrow. or put down, OF
TO destroy BY force the Government Of the
United States, or 10 oppose by force the au.
states, or by force, intimidation 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 against the will and contrary to the author
y of the United States, or by force, intimidation,
Or 10 Of or ace Of
under the United States, or from discharging the
duties thereof or by force, intimidation or threat
70 induce any officer of the United States to leave
any State district, or place where his duties as
snch officer might lawfully be performed, or to
impure aim IN his person or property on account
Of his lawful discharge Of the duties of his Office
or by force, intimidation or threat to deter any
witness in any court Of the United States from
terrifying tn any matter pending n sus en- court ,S
witness in bis person or property on account Of
bis having so testified, or by force intimidation, or
threat to Influence the verdict of any juror In any
CONT Of the United States, or to injure such per
son In his person or property on account Of
any verdict lawfully assented to by HIN, or shall
Indirectly, Of depriying any person OF any class Of
persons Of the equal protection OF the laws, or OF
equal privileges or immunities under the laws, or
for the purpose of preventing or hindering the con-
stituted authorities of any State from giving Sc
curing to all persons within such State the equal
protection Of the laws or to injnre any person In
his person or his property for lawfully enforcing
the right Of any person or class of persons to the
equal protection of the laws-each and every per
son offending shall be deemed guilty Of high
crime and upon conviction thereof in any district
or circuit court In the United States or district
supreme court of any territory of the United
Se navg ne Of q not tn ess han
nor more than 5000, or by imprisonment with or
without hard labor, as the court may DE.
termlne, Tor perlOu Vi uOt Icbs tudu
six months nor more than six years, az
Is the court may determine, or by both such fine
and imprisonment the court shall determine;
and if any one or more persons engaged IN such
conspiracy such as is defined In the preceding sec
ton shall do, cause to be done, any act in fur
therance Of the object OF such conspiracy, where
by any person shall be injured In his person or
property, or deprived OF having or exercising any
right or privilege of ctisen Of the United States,
and privileges may have and maintain an action
forthe recovery Of damages occasioned 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 district or circuit court OF the United
States with and subject to the same rights OF ap-
peal review upon error, and other remedies pro-
vided in like cases in such courts under the provi
sons of the act of April 9, 1896, entitled An act
to protect all persons In the United States In their
civil rights and to furnish the means Tor their vim
dicatiOn."
nestle violence, unlawful combinations or con
spiraces in any State, shall SO far obstruct
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 named in and Sc
cured by this act, and the constituted authorities
Of such State shall either be unable to, shall
people y s sucS tights and shall fail or neglect
the lSs nsa States TO sppy ado d.
: denial by such State Of the equal pro
lection Of the laws to which they are en-
titled under the Fourteenth article o. amendmehis
to the Constitution of the United States and IN all
such '1 measures, BY the employment q
% of .se United satss or either
means, as he may deem necessary for the suppress.
sion of such insurrection, domestic violence, or
sna any T sha he pc
to the marshal Of the proper district to be dealt
| with according TO law.
SEC. 4. That whenever in any State or part Of
State, the unlawful combinations named In the
preceding section of this act shall be organized
4 and armed, and 80 numerous and powerful az
to be able by violence TO either overthrow or set at
defiance the constituted authorities Of such
State, and Of the United States, within such
State, or when the constituted authorities are In
completely with or shall cOnnive at, the unlawful
purposes of such powerful and armed combma,
TONS and whenever, by reason of either or all
Of the causes aforesaid, the conviction Of such
efenderr and the preservation OF the public safety
shall become in such district impracticable, In
every such case such combinations shall be deemed
States. and during the continuance OF such rebel.
hon. and within the limits Of the district which shall
be under the sway thereof such limits to be pre-
ecribed by proclamation, II shall be lawful for the
President Of the United States, when In bis judg
nent the public safety shall require it. to saspend
ne privileges. OF the Wr 81 "a
Pyocited, That the President shall have first made
PROCLAMATION, now provided by law, command
also That the provisions Of this section shall not
be 10 force after the first day OF June, A. D., 1871
/ SEC 8. That nothing herein contained shall be
construed to superSede or repeal any former act
or law except so far as the same may be repug,
nsnt thereto, and any Ofenses heretofore committed
against the tenor of any 70 rmer act shall be prose
cnted, and any proceedings already commenced for
the prosecution thereof shso be continued and
completed, the tame as II I'll act had not been
passed, except far the provisions OF this act
may 60 to sustain and validate such proceedings.
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