New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-02
GENERAL NArUKE-NO. II.

AN ACT to enforce the provisions OF The
fourteenth amendment to tLc ccnstltu-
ton of the United States. and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted 10y the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That any
person who. under color Of any law, statute.
ordinance. regulation, custom or usage OF
any State shall subject, or cause to be sub
jcctcd, any person within the jurisdiction
of the United States to the deprivation Of
any rights, privileges or immunities secured
by the constitution of the United States,
shall, any such law. statute, ordinance,
regulation, custom or usage or the
State to the contrary notwlthstalld-
ing, be liable to the party injured in
any action at law. suit in equity. or other
proper proceeding for redress, such pro
ceeding to be prosecuted in the several dis
trict or circuit courts of the United States,
with and subject to the same rights of APP
peal. review upon error, and other remedies
provided in like cases in such courts. under
the provisions of the act of the ninth OF
April, eighteen hundred and siXty-siX, en-
titled IAN act to protect all persons in the
United States i'll 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.
SEC ,. That if two or more persons
within any State or Territory of the United
States shall consprc 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 government
OF the United States, or by force, lntimida
ton, OF 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 i'll
timidatioI, 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 duties there
Of 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 injurc him in his person or
property on account of his lav-'ul
discharge of the duties of his office.
or to inirre his person while en-
gagged III the lawful discharge of the
duties OF his office, or to injure his property
so as to molest, interrupt hinder. or
impede him in the discharge Of his official
duty. or by force, intimidation or threat
to deter any party or witness i'll any court
OF the United States from attending
such court. or from tcstifying i'll any mat
ter pending IN Sutn court lullN, freely and
truthfullv, or to injure any such party or
witness III his person or property on account
of his having so attended or testified. or by
force. intimidation or threat to influence
the verdict, prcscutmcnt or Indictment OF
any Juror or grand juror i'll any court of the
United States. or to injure such iuror in his
person or property on account OF any Vcr-
diet. prcsentment or indictment law
fully asscntcd to by him, or on ac-
count of his being or having becn
such juror, or shall conspire together or 90
in disguise upon the public highway or upon
the premises OF another for the purpose OF
either directly or Indirectly of dcpriving any
person or any class of persons OF the
equal protection Of the laws or Of equal
privileges or immuni,ts under the
laws. or for the purpose of preycn.-
ing or hindcring the constituted au-
tholics of any State from giving or securing
to all persons within such State the equal
protection Of the laws or shall conspire to-
gethcr for the purpose OF i'll any manrc.
impeding. hindcriug, obstructing or dcfc +
in9 the due course Of justice i'll any State or
Territory with intent TO deny to any citizen
of the Un;ted States the due and cqua, pro
lection of the laws, or to injure any person
in his person or his property for lawfully en-
forcing the rightof any person OF class Of per