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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



Roberts, Eusk, Sawyer, Scofield, Seeley, Sessions, 

 Shanks, Sheldon, Shellabarger, Shoemaker, H. 

 Boardman Smith, John A. Smith, Sprague, Stark- 

 weather, Stevenson, Stoughton, St. John, Taffe, 

 "Washington Townsend, Turner, Twichell, Tyner, 

 Wakeman. Walden, Waldron, Wallace, Walls, 

 Wheeler, Whiteley, Willarcl, Jeremiah M. Wilson, 

 and John T. Wilson 93. 



Bose, Duke. Edwards, Eldridge, E^ly, Forker, Henry 

 D. Foster Getz, Gollady, Griffith, Sandier, Hanks, 

 Harper, John T. Harris. Hereford, Hibbard, Hoi- 

 man, Kendall, Kerr, King, Kinsella, Lamison, 

 Leach, Lewis, Manson, Marshall, McClelland, Mc- 

 Cormick, McHenry, Mclntyre, McKinney, McNeely, 

 Merrick, Benjamin F. Meyers, Morgan, Niblack, 

 Eli Perry, Potter, Eandall. Bead, Edward Y. Eice, 

 John M. Rice, Eitchie, William E. Eoberts, Shober, 

 Slater, Slocum, Sloss, Stevens, Storm, Sutherland, 

 Swann, Terry, Waddell, Warren, Whitthorne, Wil- 

 liams of New York, and Young 74 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Ambler, Ames, Banks, 

 Barnum, James G. Blair, Burdett, Roderick R. 

 Butler, Campbell, Carroll, Clarke, Cobb, Comingo, 

 Crebs, Critcher, Darrall, De Large, Dickey, Duell, 

 Farnsworth, Finkelnburg, Frye, Garrett, Goodrich, 

 Haldeman, Hambleton, Play, Hays, Gerry W. Hazle- 

 ton, Lynch, McCrary, McGrew, McKee, Mitchell, 

 Moore, Morphis, Hosea W. Parker, Isaac C. Parker, 

 Peters, Price, Prindle, Eobinson, Rogers, Roose- 

 velt, Sherwood, Worthington C. Smith, Snyder, 

 R. Milton Speer, Thomas J. Speer. Stowell, Strong, 

 Sypher, Thomas, Dwight Townsend, Tuthill, Upson, 

 Van Trump, Vaughan, Voorhees, Washburn, Wells, 

 Williams of Indiana, Winchester, and Wood 63. 



So the report of the committee of confer- 

 ence was agreed to. 



In the Senate, the report of the conference 

 committee was concurred in by the following 

 vote : 



YEAS Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Boreman, Cald- 

 well, Carpenter, Clayton, Cole, Conklin, Cragin, 



Vermont, Nye, Osborn, Patterson, Pomeroy, Ram- 

 Bey, Rice, Sawyer, Scott, Sherman, Spencer, Stewart, 

 West, Wilson, and Wright 36. 



NAYS Messrs. Bayard, Blair, Casserly, Cooper, 

 Davis of Kentucky, Davis of West Virginia, Hill, 

 Johnston, Kelly, Robertson, Saulsbury, Stockton, 

 and Vickers 18. 



ABSENT Messrs. Brownlow, Buckingham, Cam- 

 eron, Chandler, Corbett, Ferry of Connecticut, Flan- 

 agan, Hamilton of Maryland, Hamlin, Kellogg, 

 Morton, Pool, Pratt, Schurz, Sprague, Stevenson, 

 Sumner, Thurman, Tipton, Trumbull, and Windom 



The following is the hill as it passed Con- 

 gress, and was approved by the President : 



AN ACT to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amend- 

 ment to the Constitution of tha United States, and for 

 other purposes. 



B& it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represent- 

 atives of the United States of America in Congress 

 assembled, That any person who, under color of any 

 law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of 

 any State, shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any 

 person within the jurisdiction of the United States to 

 the deprivation of any right.'*, privileges, or immu- 

 nities secured by the Constitution of the United 

 States, shall, any such law, statute, ordinance, regu- 

 lation, custom, or usage of the State to the contrary 

 notwithstanding, be liable to the party injured in any 

 action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceed- 



ing for redress ; such proceeding to be prosecuted in 

 the several district or circuit courts of the United 

 States, with and subject to the same rights ofap- 



Eeal, review upon error, and other remedies provided 

 i like cases in such courts ; under the provisions of 

 the act of the ninth of April, eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-six, entitled " An act to protect all persons in 

 the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish 

 the means of their vindication;" and the other 

 remedial laws of the United States which are in 

 their nature applicable in such cases. 



SEC. 2. That if two or more persons within any 

 State or Territory of the United States shall conspire 

 together to overthrow, or to put down, or to destroy 

 by force the Government of the United States, or to 

 levy war against the United States, or to oppose by 

 force the authority of the Government of the United 

 States, or by force, intimidation, or threat to prevent, 

 hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the 

 United States, or by force to seize, take or possess any 

 property of the United States, contrary to the authority 

 thereof, or by force, intimidation, or threat to prevent 

 any person from accepting or holding any office or 

 trust or place of confidence under the United States, or 

 from discharging the duties thereof, or by force, in- 

 timidation, or threat to induce any officer ot the United 

 States to leave any State, district, or place where his 

 duties as such officer might lawfully be performed, 

 or to injure him in his person or property on account 

 of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or 

 to injure his person while engaged in the lawful dis- 

 charge of the duties of his office, or to injure hia 

 property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or im- 

 pede him in the discharge of his official duty, or by 

 lorce, intimidation, or threat to deter any party or 

 witness in any court of the United States from attend- 

 ing such court, or from testifying in any matter 

 pending^ in such court fully, freely, and truthfully, 

 or to injure any such party or witness in his person 

 or property on account of his having so attended or 

 testified, or by force, intimidation^ or threat to influ- 

 ence the verdict, presentment, or indictment, of any 

 juror or grand-juror in any court of the United 

 States, or to injure such juror in his person or prop- 

 erty on account of any verdict, presentment, or in- 

 dictment lawfully assented to by him, or on account 

 of % his being or having been such juror, or shall con- 

 spire together, or go in disguise upon the public 

 highway or upon the premises of another for the 

 purpose, either directly or indirectly, of depriving 

 any person or any class of persons of the equal pro- 

 tection of the laws, or of equal privileges or immu- 

 nities under the laws, or for the purpose of prevent- 

 ing or hindering the constituted authorities of any 

 State from giving or securing to all persons within 

 such State the equal protection of the laws, or shall 

 conspire together for the purpose of in any manner 

 impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating the 

 due course of justice in any State or Territory, with 

 intent to deny to any citizen of the United States the 

 due and equal protection of the laws, or to injure any 

 person in his person or his property for 'lawfully 

 enforcing the right of any person or class of persons 

 to the equal protection of the laws, or by force, in- 

 timidation, or threat to prevent any citizen of the 

 United States lawfully entitled to vote from giving 

 his support or advocacy in a lawful manner toward 

 or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified 

 person as an elector of President or Vice-President 

 of the United States, or as a member of the Congress 

 of the United States, or to injure any such citizen in 

 his person or property on account of such support or 

 advocacy, each and every person so offending shall 

 be deemed guilty of a high crime, and, upon convic- 

 tion thereof in anv district or circuit-court of tho 

 United States or district or supreme court of any 

 Territory of the United States havingjurisdiction of 

 similar offences, shall be punished by a fine not less 

 than five hundred nor more than five thousand dol- 

 lars, or by imprisonment with or without hard labor, 



