- Event type: CREATE
United States Fifteenth Amendment
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate
The Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate for the Fortieth Session of Congress
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Session 8582: 1869-01-22 00:00:00
The Committee on the Judiciary reports S. 827 to the Senate
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S. 827
A Bill
To amend an act entitled “An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights and to furnish the means of their vindication,” approved April 9, 1866.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section three of said act shall be so construed as to confer jurisdiction on the circuit and district courts of the United States, of all criminal and penal causes or offences committed upon or in respect to the person or property of any person who is himself denied or who is of a race of persons denied, in the courts and judicial tribunals of the State or locality where he or they may be, some right declared and secured by section one of said act; but it shall not be so construed as to confer jurisdiction on said courts of civil actions where all the parties belong to the same class or race, nor of criminal or penal cases wherein the party accused is not in such case denied some right secured by said first section of the act to which this is an amendment; and the said act as hereby amended is continued in force.
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- S. 827 (introduced on 1869-01-22 00:00:00 - CREATE - e733758) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1869-01-22 00:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e733760) [view current proposal at this moment]