The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-25
Text Of the Civil Rights Bill.
The text of the Civil Rights Bill as it
passed the Senate is as follows:

passed the Senate is as follows:
SECTION 1. "That all citizens and other
persons within the jurisdiction of the United
States shall be entitled to full and equal en-.
joyments of accommodations, advantages,
facilities and privileges of inns, public con-
veyances on land or water, theatres and
other places of public amusement, and also
OF common schools, public institutions of
learning or benevOlence, supported In whole
or in part by general taxation, and of cem-
eteries so supported, and also institutions
known as agricultural colleges endowed by
the United States, subject only to the con-
ditions and limitations established by law,
and applicable alike to citizens, of every race
and color, regardless of any previous condi-
tiOn of servitude.
SEC. 2. That any person who shall violate
the foregoing section by denying to any per-
son entitled to its benefits, except for reasons
by law applicable to citizens of every race
and color, and regardless of any previous
condition of servitude, the full enjoyment of
any accommodations, advantages, facilities
or privileges i'm said section enumerated, or
melting such denial, shall for every such of
fense forfeit and pay the sum of $500 to the
person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered in
action on case with full costs, and shall also,
for every such offense, be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined not more than 81 600, or shall
be imprisoned not more than one year; pro-
vided that the party aggrieved shall not re-
cover more than one penalty; and when the
offense is refusal of burial, the penalty may
be recovered by the heirs-at-law of the per-
son whose body has been refused burial.
And provided further, that all persons may
elect to sell for the penalty aforesaid, or to
proceed under their rights ut common law
and State statutes; and having so elected to
proceed in one mode or the other, their right
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barred; but this provision shall be applied to
criminal proceedings, either under this act
or the criminal law of any State.
Sec. 3. The District and Circuit Courts of
the United States shall have, exclusive of
the courts of the several States, cognizance
of all crimes and Offenses against and vio-
latiOns of the provisions of this act, and
actions for the penalty given by the pre-
ceding sections may be presented in terri
United States wherever defendant may be
found, without regard to other parties, and
district attorneys marshals and deputy mar
shals of the United States, and the commits
sioners appointed by the Circuit and Terri.
tOrial Courts of the United States, with pow
ers of arresting, imprisoning and bailing
offenders against the laws of the United
States, are hereby specially authorized and
required to institute proceedings against any
person who shall violate the provisions of
this act, and cause him to be arrested and
imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be,
for trial before such court of the United
States, or territorial court, as by law has cog
nizance of the offense, except in respect of
the right of action accruing to the person
aggrieved; and such district attorneys shall
cause such proceedings to be prosecuted to
their termination, as in other cases pro-
vided that nothing contained in this section
shall be construed to deny or defeat any
right of civil action accruing to any person,
whether by reason of this act or otherwise.
Sec. 4. That no person, providing he pos
sess all other qualifications, which are or
may be prescribed by law, shall be disqual-
flied for service 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 of
other person charged with any duty in the
selection or summoning of jurors, who shall
exclude or fail to summon any citizen for
the cause aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor, and be fined not more than
$780,
SEC. 8. That all cases arising under the
provisions of this act in the courts of the
United States shall be renewable by the
Supreme Court of the United States, without
regard to the sum in controversy, under the
same provisions and regulations as are now
provided by law for the review of other
cases in said court"