The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-31
GENERAL NATuRE-No. 10. ]

AN ACT to enforce the provisions of the
fourteenth amendment to the constitu-
ton of the United States, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
any person who, under colon of any law,
statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or
usage of any State, shall subject, or cause
to be subjected, any person within the lur-
isdction of the United States to 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 in 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-
sions of the act Of the ninth of April,
1866, entitled Gan act to protect all per-
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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.
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, intimida'
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 force, intimidation or threat to in
duce any officer of the United States to leave
any State, district or place, where his dutie
as such officer might lawfully be performed, OIL
to injure him in his person or property on &C
count of his lawful discharge of the duties o
his office, or to injure his person while engaged
in the lawful discharge of the duties of hi
office, or to injure his property so as to modest
hinder, interfere with or impede him in thu
discharge of his official duty, or by force, in
witness in any court of the United States from
attending such court, or from testifying in an.
matter pending in such court, fully, freely an
truthfully, or to injure any such party or wit
ness in his person or property on account Q
his having SO attended or testified, or b.
force, intimidation or threat to influence th
verdict, presentment or indictment of an
Juror or grand juror in any cour
of the United States, or to injure sue
Juror in bis person or property on accoun
of any verdict, presentment or indictmer
lawfully assented to by him, or on account {
} his being or having been such juror, or sha
conspire together, or 60 in disguise upon tn
public highway or upon the premises OF anott
er for the purpose, either directly or indirec
; ly, of depriving any person or any class of PEE
/ sons of the equal protection of the laws, or {
, equal privileges or immunities under the law
! or for the purpose of preventing or hinderin
the constituted authorities OF any State fro
giving or securing to all persons within sue
State the equal protection of the laws, or sha
conspire together for the purpose of in an
manner impeding, hindering, obstructing, {
) defeating the due course of justice in any Sta
Q or Territory, with intent to deny to an
r citizen of the United States the due al
I equal protection of the laws, or to injure al
person in his person or his property for lawful
]. enforcing the right of any person or any ella
of persons, to the equal protection OF the law