The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-05-06
THE kU.KLUX LAW.
Full Text Of tho Shollabargcr Eorcc Bill
as it Finally Passed Congress.

Ol representatives Oh inc OHlCeN ctdCeS
of America in Congress assembled, That
any person, who, under color of any
law, statute, ordinance, regulation, GUS
tom or usage of any State, shall subject
or cause to be subjected any person
within the jurisdiction of the United
States, to the deprivatiOns of any rights,
privileges or immunities secured by the
Constitution of the United States, shall,
any such law, statute, ordinance, regu-
latiOn, custom or usage of the State to
the contrary Notwithstanding, be liable
to the party injured in action, law suit,
etc, in equity or other proper proceed
ings for redress, such proceeding to he
prosecuted in the several District or Cir
cult Courts of the United States, with,
and subject to the same rights of appeal,
rcvieW upon error and other remedies
provided in like cases in such courts,
under provision Of the act of tho 9th of
April, 1866, entitled can act to protect
all persons in the United States in civil
rights, and to furnish the means for
their vindication and other remedial
laws of tho United States which are in
their nature applicable to such cases."
Sec. 2. That if two or more persons
within any State or Territory of the
United States shall correspond together
to overthrow, or to put down or destroy
by force the Government of the United
States; or to levy war against the
United States, or to oppose by forco the
authorities of the Government of the
United States or by force, intimida-
ton or threat, to prevent, hinder or de-
lay 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;
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prevent any person from holding any
Office of trust or place Of confidence
under the United States, or from dis
charging the duties thereof; 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 per-
formed or to injure him in his person
or property on account of his lawful
discharge of the duties of his office; or
to injure his property SO as to molest,
hinder, interfere with, or impede him
in tho discharge of his official duty; or
by force, intimidation, or threat to deter
any party or witness in any cause of the
United States from attending court, or
from testifying in any matter pending
in such court, fully and truthfully or
to injure any such party or witness in
his person or property, on account of
his having so attended or testified or
by force, intimidation or threat, to in
fiuencc the verdict, presentment or in
dictment of any juror or grand juror of
any court of tho United States, or to
injure such juror in his person or prop
erty on account of any verdict, present
ment or Indictment lawfully assented
to by him, on account OF his being or
having been such juror; or shall con-
spire together or go in disguise upon
the public highways or premises of
another for the purpose, either directly
or Indirectly, of dcpriving any person
or any class of persons of the equal pro-
lection of the laws, or equal privileges
or immunitics under the laws or for
the purpose of preventing or hindcring
the constituted authorities of any State
from giving or securing to all persons in
such State equal protection in tho law;
for the purpose of in any manner inn
peding, hindering, obstructing or de-
feating the due course of justice in any
State or Territory with the intent to
deny to any citizen Of the United States
duo and equal protection of tho laws
or to lnjure any person in his person or
his property for lawfully enforcing the
right Of any person or class of persons
to tho equal protection of the laws or
by force, intimidation or threat to pre-
vent any citizen of the United States,
lawfully entitled to vote, from giving
his support or advocacy in q lawful
manner toward or in favor of tho clcc-
ton of any qualified person as an cleo
tor for President or Vice President of
tho United States, or rs Il mcmbcr Of
Congress of the United States, or to in
jurc 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 tho
United States, or District or Supreme
Court of any Territory of the United
States having Jurisdiction Of similar
offences, shall be punished by n fine of
not less than five hundred nor more
than five thousand dollars, or by inn
prisonment, with or without hard labor,
as the court may determine, for a pc
riod not loss than six months nor more
than six years, as the court may de-
termine; or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment as the court shall determine;
and if any one or more persons engaged
| in 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
property, or deprived of having or OK
ercising any right or privilege of a citi-
zen of the United States, the person so
| injured or deprived of such rights and
privileges, may havc and maintain an
action for recovery of damages occa-
stoned by such injury or deprivation OF
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