Year: 1871

thousand dollars, or by imprison


ment, with or without hard labor, a!


the court may determine, for a perioc


not less than six months, nor more


than six years, as the court may


determine; or by both such fine anc


Imprisonment, as the court shall de.


termine. And if any one or more


persons engaged in any such conspi.
racy shall do, or cause to be done


any act in furtherance of the object
of such conspiracy, whereby any per
son shall be injured in his person OF
property, or deprived of having and
exercising any right or privilege Of
a citizen of the. United States, the
person SO injured or deprived Of
rights and privileges may have and
maintain an action for the recovery Of
damages occasioned by such injury OF
deprivation of rights and privileges
against any one or moro of such per-
sons engaged in such conspiracy, such
action to be prosecuted in the proper
district or circuit court of the Uni
ted States, with and subject to the
same rights of appeal, review upon
error, and other remedies provided in
like cases in such court under the
provisions of the act Of April ninth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-six, en-
titled An act to protect all persons
in the United States in their civil
rights, and to furnish the means of
their yindication. f.,t *i ~


Sec. 8. That in all cases where in
surrection, domestic violence, unlaw-
full combinations, or conspiracies in
any State shall so obstruct or hinder
the execution of the laws thereof, and
of the United States, as to deprive
any portion or class of the people Of
such State of any of the rights, priv
ileges, or immunities, or protection,
named in the Constitution, and secur-
ed by this act, and the constituted
authorities of such State shall either
be unable to protect, or shall, from
any cause, fail in or refuse protection
of the people in such rights, such
facts shall be deemed a denial by
such State OF the equal protection Of
the laws to which they are entitled
under the Constitution of the United
States and in allsuch cases, or when
ever any such, insnrrection, violence,
unlawful rcomb biiiiation5 5or conspiracy
shall opposeSor obstruct the laws Of
the United States, or the due. execu-
ton thereof, or impede or, obstruct
the due curse Of Justice under the
same, it shall bealawfut for the Presi-
dent, and it shallbe his duty, to take
such measures, by the employment of
the militia or the land and naval force
of the United States, or of either, or
by other means, as he may deem ne
cessary for the suppression of such
insurrcction, domestic violence, or
combinations and any person who
shall be arrested under the provisions
of this and the preceding section shall
be delivered to the marshal of the
proper district, to be dealt with ac-
cording to law.


Sec. 4. That whenever in any
State or part Of a State the unlawful
combinations named i'll the preceding
section OF this act shall be organized
and armed, and so numerous and
powerful as to be able, by violence,
to either overthrow or set at defiance
the constituted authorities of such
State, and OF the United States with
in such State, or when the constituted
authorities are in completely with, or
shall connive at the unlawful pur-
poses OF, such powerful and armed
combinations; and whenever, by rea-
son of either or all the causes afore-
said, the conviction of such offenders
and the preservation of the public
safety shall become in such district
ilnpracticable, in every such case such
combinations shall be deemed a re-
bellion against the Government Of
the United States, and during the
continuance of such rebellion, and
within the limits ofthe district which
shall be so under the sway thereof,
such limits to be prescribed by proc


lamation, it shall be lawful for the
President of the United States, when
in his judgment the public safety
shall require it, to suspend the privi-
lcges of the writ Of AaJeas corpus to
the end that such rebellion may be
oycrthown:: P,orided, That all the
provisions of the second section of
an act entitled An act relating to
ha6cas corpus, and regulating judi


cial proceedings in certain cases,
approved March third, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-three, which relate to
the discharge Of prisoners other than
prisoners OF war, and to the penalty
for refusing to obey the order of the
court, shall be in full force so far as
the same are applicable to the provi-
sions of this section: Provided fur


Mer, That the President shall first
have made proclamation; as now pro-
vided by law, commanding suchinsur-
gents to disperse And pyovaided also,
That the provisions Of this section
shall not be in force after the end Of
the next regular session of Congress


Sec S. That no person be grand
or petit juror in any court of the
United States upon any inquiry, hear
ing or trial Of any suit, preceding, or
prosecution based upon or arising
under the provisions Of this act, who
shall, in The judgment of the court,
be in completely with any such COM
bination or conspiracy; and every
such Juror shall. before entering upon
any suchinquiry, hearing, or trial,
take and subscribe an oath in open
court that he has never, directly or
indirectly, counseled, advised, or vol
UNFAIRLY aided any such combination
or conspiracy and each and every
person who shall take this oath, and
shall therein swear falsely, shall be
guilty of perjury. and shall be sub