The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-05-28
Civil RIGHTs ELL.
Full Text of the Senate Supple
mental Bill.

WASHINGTON, May 23.-The civil
rights bill as it passed the Senate reads
as follows:
Section /. That all citizens and other
persons within the jurisdiction Of the
United States, shall be entitled to a full
and equal enjoyment OF accOmmoda-
tons, advantages, facilities and privil-
eyes of inns and public conveyance on
land or water, theatres and other places
of public amusements, and also of COM
mon schools and public institutions of
learning, or beneYOlence, supported in
whole or in part by the general taxa
ton, and of cemeteries so supported,
and also Institutions known as agricul-
tural colleges, endowed by the Govern
ment, subject to the conditions and
limitations as established by law, and
applicable alike to citizens of every
race and color, regardless of any pre-
vious condition of servitude.
PENALTIES.
Sec. ?. That any person who shall vi
Olate the foregoing section, by denying
TO any person entitled to its benefits eX-
cepted for reasons by law applicable to
citizens of every race and color, and re-
gardless of any previous condition of
servitude, the fun enjoyment of any
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privileges IN the said section enumerated,
or melting such denial shall, for every
such oifense forfeit and pay the sum of
5000 to the person so aggrieVed thereby,
to be recovered in action on the case,
with full costs and shall also, for every
such Otfense, be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined not more than $1,000, or
shall be imprisoned not more than one
year; provided that the party aggrieved
shall not recover more than one penalty.
If the otfense is a refusal OF a burial the
penalty may be recovered 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-
coed under their rights of common law
and State statutes, aud when they have
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 Grim
inal proceedings, either under this act
or the criminal laws of the State.
JURISDICTION.
Sec. 3. That District and Circuit
Courts of the United States shall have,
exclusively of the courts of the several
States, cognizance of all crimes and Of
fences against and violations of the pro-
visions OF this act, and actions for pen
atty given by the preceding section may
be prosecuted in the Territorial, District
or Circuit Courts Of the United States,
wherever defendant may be found,
without regard to either party, and the
District Attorneys, MaTshals and Depu-
ty Marshals 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 hereby specially authorized and re-
quired to institute proceedings against
every person who shall violate the pro-
visions 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 cognizance of the offense.
Except in respect of the right of action
accruing to persons aggrieYed, and such
district attorneys shall cause such pro-
ceedings to be prosecuted to their ter
minatiOn, as in other cases, provided
that nothing contained in this section
shall be construed to deny or defeat the
civil action accruing to any person by
reason of this act or otherwise.
Sec. 4. That no citizen, providing all
other qualifications which are or may
be prescribed by law, shall be disquali-
fed for
GRAND OR PETIT JUROR
in any Court of the United States, or of
seat on account of race, color or pre-
vious condition of servitude, and any
officer or other person charged with any
duty in the selection or summOning of
jurors, who shall exclude or fail to sum
mon any citizen for the causes aforesaid,
shall be deemed guilty of n misdemean-
or and fined not more than 81 900.
ALL CASES MAY BE APPEALED,
Sec. 3. That all cases arising under
the provisions Of this act in courts of
the United States, shall be renewable
by the Supreme Court of the United
States, without regard to the sum in con-
troYersy, under the same provisions and
regulations as are now provided by law
for the review of other causes in the
said court.