The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-31

| tied to vote from giving hiesuPPVib VI au'"S".
CIV in lawful manner towards or in favor OF
| the election of any lawfully qualified person
| as an elector of President or Vice President
| of the United States, or as member OF the
| 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 a high crime, and,
mon conviction thereof in any district
or oireuit 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 hne not less
| than five hundred nor more than i've thousand
| dollars, or by Imprisonment, with or without
| hard labor, as the court may determine, for
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 1t any one or more pers
| 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
nerson shall be injured in his person or propers
| 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 in such courts under the
| provisions of the act of April ninth, eighteen
| hundred and sixty-six, entitled can act pro-
| tect all persons in the United States in their
civil rights, and to furnish the means of their
| vindication."
| SEC. 8. That in all cases where instruction,
| domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or
conspiracies in any State shall so obstruet 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-
ton Of the people in such rights, such facts
shall 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
| such ilsurrection, violence, and unlawful COM
| bination, or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct
the laws of the United States, or the due exec
cution thereof, or impede or obstruct the due
| course of Justice under the same, it shall be
| lawful for the President, and it shall be his
| duty to take such measures, by the employment
| of the militia or the land and naval forces OF
| the United States, or of either, or by other
means, as he may deem necessary for the sup
preston of such instruction, domestic violence
| or combinations; and any person who shall be
arrested under the provisions of this and the
preceding section shall be delivered to the mar
shall of the proper district, to be dealt with ac-
cording 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 and armed, and so numerous and
powerful as 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 consti-
tuted authorities are in completely with, or
shall connive at the unlawful purposes
of, such powerful and armed combina>
tions; and whenever, by',lin of either
or all of the causes afOresaid,j,, convic-
ton of such offenders and the preservation of
the public safety shall become in such ds-
trict impracticable, in every such case such
combinations shall be deemed a rebellion
against the United States, and during the COM
tinuance of such rebellion, and within the linz
its of the district which shall be so under the
sway thereof, such limits to be prescribed by
proclamation, it shall be lawful tor the Presi
dent of the United States, when in his judg-
ment the public safety may require it, to sus-
pend the privileges of the writ of habeas cor
pus, to the end that such rebellion may bio over
thrown: Provided, That all the pro-
visions Of the second section of
an act entitled can act relating
to habeas corpus, and regulating judicial pro-
ceedings in certain cases." approved March
third, eighteen hundred and sixty three, which
relate to the discharge of prisoners other than
i prisoners of war, and to the penalty for refus-
ing to obey the order of the court, shall be in
full force SO far as the same are applicable to
the provisions of this section Provided, That
the President shall first have made proclama.
ton, as now provided by law, commanding
such insurgents to dispense And provided
also, That the provisions of this section shall
not be in force after the end of the next regu
i, lar session of Congress.
Sec. 8. That no person shall be grand or
petit juror in any court of the United States
} upon any inquiry, hearing, or trial of any suit
: proceeding, or prosecution based upon or arts
ing under the provisions of this act who shall
in the Judgment of the court, be in completely
, with any such combination or conspiracy and
r every such juror shall, before entering upon
Q any such inquiry. hearing, or trial, take and
subscribe an oath in open court that he has
never, directly or indirectly, counselled, ad
vsed, or voluntarily aided any such combina
= ton or conspiracy; and each and every person
Q who shall take this oath, and shall therein
: swear falsely, shall be guilty of perjury, ant
a shall be subject to the pains and penalties de-
clared against that crime, and the first section
, of the act entitled can act defining additions
y causes of challenge and prescribing an add
r tional oath for grand and petit jurors in thu
n United States courts" approved June seven
teenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be
: and the same is hereby, repealed.
q SEC. 6. That any person or persons having
y knowledge that any of the wrongs conspire'
n to be done and mentioned in the secon
section of this act are about to be committed
and having power to prevent or aid in prevent
|, ing the same shall neglect or refuse to do, an
: such wrongful act shall be committed, sue
il person or persons shall be liable to the perso
ir injured, or his legal representatives, for a
damages caused by any such wrongful &C
% which such hrst-named person or persons b
IT reasonable diligence could have prevented
and such damages may be recovered in an az
IS ton on the case in the proper circuit court {
le the United States, and any number of person
10 guilty of such wrongful neglect or refusal ma
" be joined as defendants in such action
,r provided that such action shall be con
10 menced within one year after such cause
D. action shall have accrued, and if the death
l. any person shall be caused by any such wrong
" full act and neglect, the legal representative
s. such deceased person shall have such actio
" therefor, and may recover not exceedin
to $4,000 damages thereon for the benefit of Il
a. widow of such deceased person, if any thel
m be, or, if there be no widow, for the benefit
is the next of kin of such deceased person.
ID SEC. I. That nothing herein contained shs
e. construed to supersede or repeal any form
a. act or law except SO far as the same may
We repugnant thereto; and any offences heret
es fore committed against the tenor of any form
mr. act shall be prosecuted, and any proceedir