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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



of the duty with which they are charged, and to insure 

 a faithful observance of the fifteenth amendment to 

 the Constitution of the United States; and such war- 

 rants shall run and be executed by said officers any- 

 where in the State or Territory within which they 

 are issued. 



SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That any person 

 who shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct, hinder, 

 or prevent any officer or other person charged with 

 the execution of any warrant or process issued under 

 the provisions of this act, or any person or persons 

 lawfully assisting him or- them, from arresting any 

 person for whose apprehension such warrant or pro- 

 cess may have been issued, or shall rescue or attempt 

 to rescue such person from the custody of the officer or 

 other person or persons, or those lawfully assisting as 

 aforesaid when so arrested, pursuant to the authority 

 herein given and declared, or shall aid, abet, or 

 assist any person so arrested as aforesaid, directly 

 or indirectly, to escape from the custody of the offi- 

 cer or other person legally authorized as aforesaid, 

 or shall harbor or conceal any person for whose 

 arrest a warrant or process shall have been issued as 

 aforesaid so as to prevent his discovery and arrest 

 after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant 

 has been issued for the apprehension of such person, 

 shall for either of said offences be subject to a fine 

 not exceeding $1,000 and imprisonment not exceed- 

 ing six months, by indictment and conviction before 

 the district or circuit court of the United States for 

 the district or circuit in which said offence may have 

 been committed, or before the proper court of crim- 

 inal jurisdiction, if committed within any one of the 

 organized Territories of the United States. 



SEO. 10. And be it further enacted, That the com- 

 missioners, district attorneys, the marshals, their 

 deputies, and the clerks of the said district, circuit, 

 and territorial courts shall be paid for their services 

 the like fees as may be allowed to them for similar 

 services in other cases. The person or persons au- 

 thorized to execute the process to be issued by such 

 commissioners for the arrest of offenders against the 

 provisions of this act shall be entitled to a fee of 

 ten dollars for each person he or they may arrest 

 and take before any such commissioner as aforesaid, 

 with such other fees as may be deemed reasonable 

 by such commissioner for such other additional ser- 

 vices as may be necessarily performed by him or 

 them, such as attending at the examination, keep- 

 ing the prisoner in custody, and providing him with 

 food and lodging during his detention, and until the 

 final determination of such commissioner, and in 

 general for performing such other duties as may be 

 required in the premises ; such fees to be made up in 

 conformity with the fees usually charged by the offi- 

 cers of the courts of justice within the proper dis- 

 trict or county, as near as may be practicable, and 

 paid out of the Treasury of the United States on the 

 certificate of the judge of the district within which 

 the arrest is made, and to be recoverable from the 

 defendant as part of the judgment in case of convic- 

 tion. 



SEC. 11. And, be it further enacted, That whenever 

 the President of the'United States shall have reason 

 to believe that offences have been or are likely to be 

 committed against the provisions of this act within 

 any judicial district, it shall be lawful for him. in his 

 'discretion, to direct the judge, marshal, and district 

 attorney of such district, to attend at such place 

 within the district, and for such time .as he may 

 designate, for the purpose of .the more speedy arrest 

 and trial of persons charged with a violation of this 

 act ; and it shall be the duty of every judge or other 

 officer, when any such requisition shall be received 

 by him, to attend at the place and for the time therein 

 designated. 



SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That it shall be 

 lawful for the President of the United States, or such 

 person as he may empower for that purpose, to em- 

 ploy such part of the land or naval forces of the 



United States, or of the militia, as shall be deemed 

 necessary to prevent the violation and enforce the 

 due execution of this act. 



SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That whenever 

 any person shall hold office, except as a member of 

 Congress or of some State Legislature, contrary to 

 the provisions of the third section of the fourteenth 

 article of amendment of the Constitution of the 

 United States, it shall be the duty of the district 

 attorney of the United States for the district in which 

 such person shall hold office as aforesaid to proceed 

 against such person by writ of quo ivarranto, return- 

 able to the circuit or district court of the United 

 States in such district, and to prosecute the same to 

 the removal of such person from office ; and any writ 

 of quo warranto so brought as aforesaid shall take 

 precedence of all other cases on the docket of the 

 court to which it is made returnable, and shall not 

 be continued unless for cause proved to the satisfac- 

 tion of the court. 



SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That any person 

 who shall hereafter 'knowingly accept or hold any 

 office* under the United States or any State, to which 

 he is ineligible under the third section or the four- 

 teenth article of amendment of the Constitution of 

 the United States, or who shall attempt to hold or 

 exercise the duties of any such office, shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor against the United States, 

 and upon conviction thereof before the circuit or 

 district court of the United States shall be impris- 

 oned not more than one year and fined not exceed- 

 ing $1,000, and shall forever be disqualified to hold 

 any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United 

 States or any State. 



SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That all persons 

 within the jurisdiction of the United States shall 

 have the same right in every State and Territory in 

 the United States to make and enforce contracts, to 

 sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and 

 equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the 

 security of person and property as is enjoyed by 

 white citizens, and shall be subject to like punish- 

 ments, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exac- 

 tions of every kind, and none other, any law, stat- 

 ute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to the con- 

 trary notwithstanding. No tax or charge shall be 

 imposed or enforced by any State upon any person 

 emigrating thereto from a foreign country which is 

 not equally imposed and enforced upon every person 

 emigrating to such. State from any other foreign 

 country, and any law of any State in conflict with 

 this provision is hereby declared null and void. 



SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That any person 

 who, under color of any law,_ statute, ordinance, 

 regulation, or custonij shall subject, or cause to be 

 subjected, any inhabitant of any State or Territory 

 to the deprivation of any right secured or protected 

 by this act, or to different punishment, pains, or 

 penalties, on account of such person being .an alien, 

 or by reason of his color or race, than is prescribed 

 for the punishment of citizens, shall be deemed guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be pun- 

 ished by fine not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment 

 not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of 

 the court. 



SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the act to 

 protect all persons in the United States in their civil 

 rights, and furnish the means of their vindication, 

 passed April 9, 1866, is hereby reenacted ; and said 

 act, except the first and second sections thereof, is 

 hereby referred to and made a part of this act ; and 

 section fifteen and section sixteen hereof shall be 

 enforced according to the provisions of said act. 



Mr. Carpenter, of Wisconsin,- said: "This 

 House bill is confined almost exclusively, and 

 I think exclusively, to punishing officers and 

 persons who shall intimidate or hinder or de- 

 lay voting in the methods pointed out by the 



