Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-04
New Civil Rights Bill.

The civil Rights Bill, as 1t passed |
the Senate, read as follows:
SECTION /. That all citizens and |
other persons within the jurisdiction |
of the United States shall be entitled
to the full and equal enjoyment of
the Accommodations, advantages, facil-
titles, and privileges of inns, public
conveyances on land or water, thea
tiers and other places of public amuse-
ment, and also of the common schools
and public institutions of learning or
benevolence supported in whole or
in part by general taxation, and OF
cemeteries so supported, also the
institutions known as agricultural
colleges, endowed by the United
States, subject only to the conditions
and limitations established by law,
and applicable alike to citizens of
every race and color, regardless of
any previous condition of servitude.
SEC. 2. That any person who shall
violate the foregoing section by de-
nying to any person entitled to its
benefit except for reasons applicable
by law to citizens of every race and
color, regardless of any previous
condition of servitude, the full en-
joyment of any accommodations, ad-
vantages, facilities, or privileges in
said section enumerated, or melting
such denial, shall, for every such Of
Tense, forfeit and pay the sum of
$500 TO the person aggrieved there
by, to be recovered in action on
them with full costs, and shall also
for every snch offense, be deamed
guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not
more than $1,000, or shall be impris-
oned not more than one year pro-
vided that the party aggrived shall
not recover more than one penalty,
anu when the offense is o refusal of
burial the penalty may be recover
ed by the heirs-at-law of the person
whose body has been refused burial
provided further, that all persons
| may elect to sue for the penalty
aforesaid, or to proceed under their
rights at common law and State
statutes, and having so elected to
proceed in the one mode or the other
their right to proceed in the other
jurisdiction shall be barred; but
this proviso shall not apply to orimi-
nal proceedings either under this act
or the criminal law of any State,
SEC. 3. That the District and
the Circuit Courts Of the United
States shall have exclusively of the
courts Of the several States, cogni-
zance of all crimes and offenses
against, and violations of the pro-
visions of, this act, and actions for
penalty given by the preceding Sec
ton may be prosecuted in the Terri
torial, District, or Circuit Courts of
the United States wherever the de-
PENDANT may be found without re-
gard to the other party and the
District Attorneys, Marshals and
Deputy Marshals of the United
States, and the Commissioners APP
pointed by the Circuit and Terrific
rial Courts Of the United States, with
the powers of arresting and impris-
oning, and bailing offenders against
the laws of the U. S., are hereby
authorized and required to institute
proceedings against every person
who shall violate the provisions of
this act, and cause him to be arres-
ted, and imprisoned or bailed, as the
case may be, for trial before such
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torial court as by law has cognizance
Of tho offenses, except in respect OF
the right of action accruing to the
person aggrieved; and such District
Attorney shall cause such proceed
ings to be prosecuted to their termi>
nation as in other cases Provided,
that nothing contained in this section
shall be construed 10 deny or defeat
any right of civil action, accruiug to
any person by reason of this act or
| otherwise.
SEC 4. That no citizen, provi-
ding he has all ether qualifications
which are or may be prescribed by
law, shall be disqualified for services
as a grand or petit juror in any court
of the United States, or of any
State, on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude, and
any officer or other person charged
with any duty in the selection or
summoning of jurors, who shall ex-
clude or fail to summon any citizen
Gnr the cause aforesaid, shall be
be- inca G noG o Fl mpnIssGnemoanor. and
SEC. 5. That all cases arising un-
der the provisions of this act in the
courts of the United States shall be
reviewable by the Supreme Court OF
the United States without regard to
the sum in controversy under the
same provisions and restrictions as
are now provided by law for the re-
Wow of other causes.