The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-04-27
THE ENFORCEMENT LAW.
THE FORCE BILL AS SIGNED BY THE PRES
IDENT.


IDENT.
The following is the text of the Force
Bill, as signed by the President:
AN ACT to enforce the provisions O
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States, and fol
other purposes.
Be at enacted By the Senate and House o.
Representatives of the United States, o.
Ameriea an. Congress assembled. That any
person who, under color of any law, stat
ute, ordinance, regulation, custom OIL
usage of any state, shall subject, or cause
to be subjected, any person within the
Jurisdiction Of the United States to the
deprivation of any rights, privileges oil
immunities secured by the Constitution
of the United States, shall. any such law
statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, OF
usage of the state to the contrary notwith
standing, be liable to the party injured
in any action at law, suit in equity, OF
other proper proceeding for redress; such
proceeding to be prosecuted IN the sever
al Districts or Circuit Courts OF the Uni.
ted 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 provisions of the
act of the 9th of April, 1866, entitled IAN
act to protect all persons in the United
States in their civil rights, and to furnish
the means of their vindication," and the
other remedial laws of the United States
which are in their nature applicable in
such cases. 1893
Sec. Q. That if two or more persons
within any state or territory of the Uni,
ted States shall conspire together to over
throw, 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 authori
ty of the Government of the United
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 proper
ty of the United States contrary TO the
authority thereof, or by force, intlmida,
ton or threat to prevent any person from
accepting or holding any office or trust
or place Of confidence under the United
States, or from discharging the drsies,
therof, or by force, intimidation or threat
to induce 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 his
person or property on account of his law
full discharge of the duties of his office, or
to iniure his person while engaged in
the lawful discharge of the duties of
his office; or to injure his property
SO as to molest hinder, intefere
with, or impede him in the discharge
OF his official duty or by force, in
or threat, to deter any par
Sy or witness in any court of the United
States from attending such court, or from
in any matter pending In such
court, fnlly and truthfully, or to ipiure
any such party or witness in his person
or property on account of his having so
attended or testified, or by force, intimi
dation, or threat to influence the verdict,
presentment, or Indictment, of any Juror
Or grand juror in any conrt of the United
States, or to injure such juror in his per-
son or property on account of any YER
dict, presentment, or indictment lawful
y assented to by him, or on account of
his being or having been such juror, or
or shall conspire together, or go in dis
gnise upon the public highway or the
premises of another for The purpose, eli
her directly or indirectly, of depriving
my person or any class of persons of the
equal protection of the laws, or of equal
or immunities under the laws, |
or for the purpose of preventing or hind |
erlng the constituted authorities of any
'tate from giving or securing to all per-
sons within such state the equal protec- |
ion OF the laws, or shall conspire togeth-
n for the purpose Of in any manner i'm
ocding, hindering, obstructing or defeat
ng the due course of justice in any state
II territory, with intent to deny to any
citizen of the United States the due and
equal protection of the laws, or to in
ure any person in his person or his prop
,rty for lawfully enforcing the right of
my person or class ofpersons to the equal
of the laws, or by force, intim
dation or threat to prevent any citizen of /
he United States lawfully entitled to
7ote from giving his support or advocacy
n a lawful manner toward or in favor
IT the election of any lawfully qualified
person as an elector of President or Vice I
President of the United States, or as a
member Of the Congress of Che United
States, or to injure any such citizen in his
person or property on account of such
support or advocacy, each and every per-
on so offending shall be deemed guilty
# high crime, and upon conviction
hereof in any District or Circuit Court /
Vt the United States, or District or SUI
oreme Court OF any territory OF the Uni
ed Statef having jurisdiction of similar
'tiences, shall be punished by fine not
ess than $500 nor more than $4,000, or
~ imprisonment, with or without hard
abor, as the court may deSermine, for a
period of not less than six months nor
more than six years, as the court may de-