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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



ment of persons or property for the purpose of such, 

 taxation, or authorized or required by the laws of 

 such State to assess or levy any such tax, shall refuse, 

 or wilfully neglect or advise, or shall participate, 

 concur, or acquiesce in the refusal or wilful neglect 

 of such levy court or other body of officers to assess 

 the person or property, or to assess or levy any such 

 tax upon the person or property of any colored citi- 

 zen of the United States, qualified as aforesaid, and 

 residing in the county or district for which said offi- 

 cer, levy court, or other body of officers, shall have 

 been elected or appointed, he shall for every such 

 offence forfeit and pay the sum of $500 to any person 

 who will sue for the same, and shall for every such 

 offence be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall 

 be fined not less than $500, and be imprisoned not 

 less than one month. 



SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any clerk 

 or other officer, required by the law of any State to 

 register, record, or transcribe any list of persons upon 

 whom taxes have been assessed, or to transcribe and 

 certify any duplicate of such list to the collector of 

 taxes, shall refuse or wilfully neglect to register, 

 record, transcribe, or enter upon the proper assess- 

 ment list, or upon the proper duplicates of such 

 assessment list, the name of any colored citizen of 

 the United States who has been lawfully assessed to 

 pay any tax, the payment of which tax is by the 

 constitution or laws of such State a qualification of 

 an elector of such State, every such clerk or officer 

 shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum 

 of $500 to any person who will sue for the same, and 

 shall for every such offence be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, arid shall be fined not less than $500, 

 and be imprisoned not less than one month. 



SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any col- 

 lector of taxes elected or appointed by authority of 

 the laws of any State shall refuse or wilfullv neg- 

 lect to receive from any colored citizen of the United 

 States residing in such State any tax which he is 

 required by law to collect from citizens of such State, 

 and the payment of which tax is by the constitution, 

 or laws of such State a qualification of an elector 

 of such State, or if any such collector shall refuse or 

 wilfully neglect to give to any such colored citizen 

 a receipt for any such tax, when the amount thereof 

 shall have been paid or tendered to him by such col- 

 ored citizen, he shall for every such offence forfeit 

 and pay the sum of $500 to any person who will sue 

 for the same, and shall for every such offence be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined 

 not less than $200 and be imprisoned for not less than 

 one month. 



SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That if at any 

 State, county, township, hundred, or municipal elec- 

 tion, held by the authority of any law of any State, 

 or at any election for electors of President of the 

 United States, or for members of the House of Eep- 

 resentatives of the United States, any officer, in- 

 spector, or judge of the election, shall refuse to re- 

 ceive, or shall advise or concur in refusing to receive 

 the vote of any person on account of his race, color, 

 or previous condition of servitude, every such offi- 

 cer, inspector, or judge, shall, for every such offence, 

 forfeit and pay the sum of $500 to any person whose 

 vote shall have been so refused who may sue for the 

 . same in any court of the United States ; and such 

 officer, inspector, or judge, shall for every such of- 

 fence be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on 

 conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $200 

 nor more than $500, and be imprisoned not less than 

 one month. 



SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That any registrar 

 or officer who shall refuse to register, or enter upon 

 the list of vgters or list of persons who will be enti- 

 tled to vote at any election, the name of any colored 

 person having the qualifications of a white citizen 

 entitled to vote or to be placed on such list in other 

 respects except race or color, and any officer or mem- 

 ber of any board for the admission of electors, who 



shall refuse to admit to the electors' oath, or to the 

 privileges of an elector, any colored person on ac- 

 count of his race, color, or previous condition of ser- 

 vitude, or having the qualifications of a white citi- 

 zen entitled to the privileges of an elector in othei 

 respects than race, color, or previous condition of 

 servitude, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on 

 conviction thereof shall forfeit and pay a penalty 

 of not less than $200 nor more than $500, and shall 

 be imprisoned not less than one month nor more 

 than six months, or both, in the discretion of the 

 court. 



SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That if any per- 

 son shall, by threats, violence, or intimidation, pre- 

 vent, or attempt to prevent, any citizen of the United 

 States from the free exercise of his right to vote .in 

 any election at which members of Congress or elec- 

 tors for President or Vice-President of the United 

 States may be voted for, such person so offending 

 shall be liable to indictment, and, on conviction 

 thereof, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000, 

 or to imprisonment not less than one year nor more 

 than three years, or both, in the discretion of the 

 court. 



SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the circuit 

 courts of the United' States shall have jurisdiction of 

 the suits for forfeitures imposed and causes of action 

 created by this act, arid the circuit and district courts 

 of the United States shall have jurisdiction of the 

 misdemeanors created by this act. 



Mr. Bingham moved that the rules be sus- 

 pended, and the bill passed. 



The question was taken, as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Allison, Ambler, Ames, Armstrong, 

 Arnell. Asper, Atwood, Ayer, Banks, Barry, Bea- 

 man, Beatty, Benjamin, Bennett, Benton, Bingham, 

 Blair, Booker, Boyd, George M. Brooks-Buck, Buck- 

 ley, Buffinton, Burchard, Benjamin F. Butler, Cake, 

 Cessna, Churchill, William T. Clark, Sidney Clarke, 

 Amasa Cobb, Coburn, Conger, Cook, Cowles, Dawes, 

 Dickey, Dixon, Donley, Duval, Dyer, Ela, Farns- 

 worth, Ferriss, Ferry, Finkelnburg, Fitch, Garfield, 

 Gilfillan, Hale, Hamilton, Harris. Hawley, Hay, 

 Heflin, Hill, Hoar, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Ing'ersoll, 

 Julian, Kelley, Kellogg. Kelsey, Ketcham, Laflin, 

 Lash, Logan, Loughbridge, Lynch, Maynard, Mc- 

 Carthy, McCrary, McGrew, McKee, McKenzie, Mer- 

 cur, Milnes, Eliakim H. Moore, Jesse H. Moore, 

 William Moore, Morphis, Daniel J. Morrell, Myers, 

 Negley, O'Neill, Packard, Packer, Peck, Perce, 

 Peters, Platt, Poland, Pomeroy, Prosser, Eoots, 

 Sanford, Sargent, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Shanks, 

 Lionel A. Sheldon, Porter Sheldon, John A. Smith, 

 William J. Smith, Worthington C. Smith, William 

 Smyth, Starkweather, Stevens, Stevenson, Stokes, 

 Stoughton, Strickland, Strong, Taffe, Tanner, Tay- 

 lor, Tillman, Townsend, Twichell, Tyner, Upaon, 

 Cadwalader C. Washburn, Welker, Wheeler, Whit- 

 temore, Willard, Williams, John T. Wilson, and Wi- 

 nans 131. 



NAYS Messrs. Adams, Archer, Axtell, Barnum, 

 Beck, Biggs, James Brooks, Burr, Conner, Crebs, 

 Dickinson, Dox, Eldridge, Gibson, Griswold, Haight, 

 Haldeman, Hamill, Hawkins, Holman, Knott, Lewis, 

 Mayham, McNeely, Morgan, Mungen, Niblack, Pot- 

 ter, Eandall, Kice, Eogers, Schumaker, Sherrod, 

 Slocum, Joseph S. Smith, Stiles, Swann, Sweeney, 

 Trimble, Van Trump, Voorhees, Eugene M. Wilson, 

 Winchester, and Wood 44. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Bailey, Bird, Boles, Bowen, 

 Burdett, Eoderick E. Butler, Calkin, Cleveland, 

 Clinton L. Cobb, Covode, Cox, Cullom, Davis. De- 

 gener, Dockery, Fisher, Fox, Getz, Hambleton, Hays, 

 Heaton, Hoge, Jenckes, Johnson, Alexander H. 

 Jones, Thomas L. Jones, Judd, Kerr, Knapp, Law- 

 rence, Marshall, McCormick, Samuel P. Morrill, 

 Morrissey. Orth, Paine, Palmer, Phelps, Porter, 

 Eeeves, Eidgway, Shober, Stone, Strader, Van 



