New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-18
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the First Session of the Forty
Second Congress.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. TO-
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 color of any law, statute,
any State, shall subject, or cause to be sub.
| iected, 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 OF the
State to the contrary nOtwithstand-
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 i'll 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 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
SEC. 9. 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 government
OF the United States, or by force. lntimida-
ton. 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, i'll
timidation, 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 injure him in his person or
property on account of his lawful
discharge of the duties of his office,
or to injure his person while en-
gagged in the lawful discharge of the
duties of his Office or to injure his property
so as to modest, interrupt hinder, or
impede him in the discharge of his official
duty, or by force. intimidation or threat
to deter any party or witness in any court
of the United States from attending
such court, or from testifying in any mat
ter pending in such court fully, freely and
truthtully. 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 influence
the verdict, presentment or indictment of
any Juror or grand juror in any court of the
United States, or to injure such juror in his
person or property on account of any ver-
dict, presentment or indictment law
fully assented to by him. or on ac-
count of his being or having been
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 depriving any
person or any class of persons of the
equal protection of the laws or of equal
privileges or immunities under the
laws. or for the purpose OF prevent
ing or hindering the constituted au-
thories of any State from giving or securing
to all persons within such State the equal
protection of the laws. or shall conspire to-
gether for the purpose of in any manner
Impeding, hlndering. Obstructing or defeat
ing the due course of justice in any State or
Territory with intent to deny to any citizen
OF the United States the due and equal pro-
tectlon OF the laws, or to injure any person
IN his person or his property for lawfully en-
forcing the right of any person or class of per-
sons TO the equal protection of the laws. or by
force, intimidation or threat to prevent any
citizen Ofthe United States lawfully entitled
to vote, from giving his support or advocacy
III lawful manner toward or in favor of the
election of any lawfully qualihed 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 adj
vocacy, each and every person so offending
shall be deemed guilty of high crime, and
upon convection thereof in any district or
circuit court of the United States or
district or supreme court of any Territory
OF the United States having jurisdiction If
similar offenses, shall be punished nv a fine |
not less than five hundred nor more than
hve thousand dollars or by imprisonment.
with or without. hard labor. as the court
may determine for Il period of not less
tntii SIX months nor more than six wears, |
as the court may determine. or by both such |
fine and imprisonment as the court shall |
determine And if any one or more
rerSohs engaged III any such conspiracy |
shai 40, or cause to be done, any |
ACT IN furtherance of the object of such con |
spiracy. whereby any person shall be in |
l,red III his person or property, or deprived |
OF having and exercising any right or privi-
lcge OF citizen of the United States. the |
person so injured or deprived of such rights
anu privileges may have and maintain an
action Tor the recovery of damages occa-
Sioned by such injury or deprivation of
rights and privileges. against any one or
more OF the persons engaged in such con
'plraey, such action TO be prosecuted in the
proper district or circuit court of the United
states with and subject to the same rights
d appeal, review upon error and other
remedies provided in like cases. in such
courts, under the provisions of the act of
April ninth. eighteen hundred and sixty six,
,ntu!ed An act to protect all persons in
he United States in their civil rights, and
% turnisA the means of their vindication."
. SEC; D. mat IN all cases where n~nrrec
ion, domestic violence, unlawful combina-