Year: 1871

property on account of such support or ad


vocacy-each and every person so offending
shall be deemed guilty of h -gh crime, and
upon conviction thereof in any District or
Circuit Court of the United States, or Dis
| trict or Supreme Court of any Territory of
the United States having jurisdiction of sim
| liar offences, shall be punished by fine of
not less than five hundred nor more than
| five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment
with Or without hard labor as the court may
determine, for period of not less than six
months nor more than six years, as the court
shall determine and if any one or more
persons engaged in such conspiracy shall do
or cause to be done any act iD furtherance
of th8lohjeet of such conspiracy, whereby
any person shall be injured in his person or
property, or deprived of having and exercis-
ing any right or privilege of citizen in the
United States, the person so Injured or de-
prived of such rights and privileges may
have and maintain an action for recovery of
damages occasioned by such injury or depri-
vation of right and privileges against any
one or more of the persons engaged in such
conspiracy; such action to be pros ecuted in
the District or Circuit Court of the United
States with and subject to the same rights
of appeal, review upon error and other
remedies provided in like cases in such
courts under the provisions of the act of
April 9, 1866, entitled IAN act to protect all
persons in the United States in their civil
rights, and to furnish means for their vindi-
cation"


Sec. 3. That in all cases where insurrec
ton, domestic violence, unlawful combina-
tiOns, or conspiracies in any State, shall so
obstruct or hinder the execution of the laws
| thereof and the-United States so as to de-
prive any portion or class of he people in
such State of any rights, privileges or i'm
munities, or protection named in the Consti-
tuition and secured by this act, and the cono


stituted authorities ofsuch State shall either
be unable to protect, or shall from any
cause fail in or refuse protection to the peo-
pie in such rights, such facts shall be deemed
denial by such States of the equal protec-
ton of the laws to which they are entitled
under the Constitution of the United States,
and in all such cases, or whenever any such


insurrection, violence unlawful co ombination


or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct the


laws of the United States, or the due execu-


ton thereof, or impede or obstruct the due


course of justice under the same, it shall be
lawful for the President, and it shall be his


duty, to take such measures, by the employ


ment of the militia ana naval forces of the
United States, or of either, or by means, as


he may deem necessary for the suppression


of such insurrection, domestic violence, or


combinations; and any person who shall be


arrested under the provisions of this and


proceeding sections shall be delivered to


the marshal of the proper district, to be


dealt with according to law.


Sec. 4. That wherever, in any State or


part of State, the unlawful combinations


named in the preceding sections Of this act


shall be organized and armed, and so num-


erous and powerful as to be able by violence


to either overthrow or set at defiance the


constituted authorities of such State and the


United States within such State, or where


the constituted authorities are in completely


with, or shall connivc at, the unlawful pur-


poses of such powerful and armed cOmbina-
tions; and whenever by reason of either or


all the causes aforesaid, the conviction of


such offenders and the preservation of the


public safety shall become in such districts


impractieable, in every such case such com


bination shall be deemed rebellion against


the Government of the United States and


during the continuance of such rebellion,


and within the limits of the district which


shall be so under the sway thereof, such


limits to be prescribed by proclamation, it
shall be lawful for the President of the
United States, when in his judgment the
E public safety shall require it, to suspend the
privilege of the writ of ha beas corpus to the


end that such rebellion may be overthrowni
provided that all the provisions of the sec.
ond section of an act entitled 'an act relat'
, | ing t. habeas corpus and regulating Judicial
f proceedings in certain cases" approved
, March 8, 1863, which relate to the discharge


of prisoners other than prisoners OF war
and the penalties for refusing to obey this
= order of the court shall he in force so far as
! the same are applicable to the provisions o
this section Provided further, that th'
y. President shall first have made pr0clama
2 ton, as now provided by law, commanding
such insurgents to disperse; nd provided
! also that the provisions of this section shal
. not be in force after the end of the next re-,
/ ular session of Congress.


s Sec. 5. That person shall be grand o.
5; petit juror in any court of the United State
= upon an inquiry bearing on the trial OF an,