Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-24
SOCIAL RIGHTS.
Text of the Negro Bill as it
Passed the Senate.
CursOry Reading for Sunday
Morning,

WASHINGTON, May 93.-fhe civil rights
bill as it passed the Senate, reads as fol-
lowss
Section 1. That all citizens and rther
persons within the jurisdiction of the Uni
ted States shall he entitled to the full and
equal enjoyment of the accommodations,
advantages, facilities and privileges of inns,
public eonveyances on land or water, the
aters and other places Of public amuse-
ment, and also Of common schools and pub
lie institutions Of learning or benevolence
supported in whole or part by general tax
alton, and of cemeteries so supplied, and
also the institutions known as Industrial
colleges endowed by the United States sub.
ject to the conditions and limitations es-
tablished by law and applicable alike to cit
izens of every race and color, regardless of
any previous condition of servitude.
Sec. 2. That any person who shall vio-
late the foregoing section by denying to any
person entitled to its benefits, except for
reasons by law applicable to citizens of
every race and color and regardless of any
previous condition of seryltude, the full en-
ioyment ofsny accommodations, advantages,
facilities or privileges in said section emu
merated, or melting such denial, shall, for
every such o4iense, forfeit and pay the sum
of five hundred dollars to the person ag-
grieved thereby, to be recovered in action
on the case, with full costs, and shall also
for every such offense be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction there
of shall be fined not less than one thou
sand dollars. or shall be imprisoned not
more than one year; provided, that the
party so aggrieved shall not recover more
than one penalty; and if the offense is
refusal Of burial, the penalty may be re-
covered by the heirs at law of the person
whose body has been refused burial; and
provided further, that all persons may elect
to sue for the penalty aforesaid, or to pro-
ceed under their righls at common law and
the 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 criminal proceedings either
under this act or the criminal Law of the
State.
Sec. 8. That the district and circuit
courts of the United States shall have, ex-
clusiyely of the courts of the several States,
cognizancc of all crimes and offences
against and violations of the provisions of
this act, and actions for penalty given by
the preceding section may be prosecuted in
the territorial, district or circuit courts of
the United States, wherever the defendant
may be found. without regard to the other
party, and district attorneys, and marshals
and deputy marshais of the United States
and commissioners appointed by the circuit
and territorial courts of the United States
with powers of arreSting and Imprisonment
and bailing offenders against the laws of the
United States, are herebyEspecially author
lied and required to institute proceedings
against every person who shall violate the
provisions of this act and cause him 10 be
arrested and imprisoned or bailed as the case
NAV be. for trial before such court of the
United States or territorial court as by law
has cOgnizance Of the ofiense, except in re-
spect of the right of action accTuing to the
person aggrievedE and such district attor-
neys shall cause such proceedings to be
prosecuted to their termination as in other
cases; providing that nothing contained in
this section shall be construed to deny or
defeat the civil action accruing to any per-
son by reason. this act or otherwise.
Sec. t. That no citizen, providing he
meet all the other qualifications which are
or may be prescribed by law, shall be dis
qualified for services for grand or petit in
any court Of the United States or of State,
on account of race. color. or previous condi-
tion of servitude, and any officer or other
person, charged with any duty in the Sc
lection or summOning of jurors, who shall
exclude or fail to summon any citizen for
the cause aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanOr, and fined not more than
$1,000.
Sec >. 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, with
out regard to the sum in controversy, un-
der the same provisions and regulations as
art now provided by law for the review of
other courts in said court.