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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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  3. Committee:Senate Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1866-01-15 12:00:00
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United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.

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Session 13044: 1866-01-15 12:00:00

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Shown with amendment 'S. 1: Senate Committee on the District of Columbia Substitute: Mr. Willey's Substitute for Section One' (e869275)

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A BILL

To regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, Infrom all elections to be held hereafter in the Districtpassage of Columbia, the following describedthis act, each and every male persons, and those only, shall have the right to vote, to wit:

[First]. Allexcepting paupers and persons residents of said District who have been duly mustered into the military or naval service of the United States during the late rebellion, and have been or shall hereafter be honorably discharged therefrom.

[Second]. Male citizens of the United Stateunder guardianship, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who has not been convicted of any infamous crime or offence, and excepting persons who shallmay have attainedvoluntarily left the ageDistrict of twenty-one years, (excepting paupers, persons nonColumbia to give aid and compos mentis or convicted of an infamous offense,)fort to the rebels in the late rebellion, and who, being resid is a citizents of the ward or district inUnited States, and which they shall offer to vote, shall have resided in the said District for the period of one year nexe year, and three months in the ward or election precinct in which he shall offer to vote, precedingvious to any election, and who therein, shall have paid the taxes assessed against thembe entitled to the elective franchise, and who can read, and who can wrshall be deemed an elector and entitled their names; but no person shall have the right to vote who in any way voluntarily gave aid and comfo vote at any election in said District, without any distinction on account of colort to the enemy during the late rebellionace.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person whose duty it shall be to receive votes at any election within the District of Columbia, who shall wilfully refuse to receive or who shall wilfully reject the vote of any person entitled to such right under this act, shall be liable to an action of tort by the person injured, and shall be liable, on indictment and conviction, if such act was done knowingly, to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year in the jail of said District, or to both.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall wilfully interrupt or disturb any such elector in the exercise of such franchise, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail in said District, for a period not to exceed thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the several courts having criminal jurisdiction in said District to give this act in special charge to the grand jury at the commencement of each term of the court.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the mayors and aldermen of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, respectively, on or before the first day of March in each year, shall prepare a list of the persons they judge to be qualified to vote in the several wards of said cities in any election; and said mayors and aldermen shall be in open session to receive evidence of the qualification of persons claiming the right to vote in any election therein, and for correcting said list, on two days in each year, not exceeding five days prior to the annual election for the choice of city officers, giving previous notice of the time and place of each session in some newspaper printed in said District.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That on or before the __ day of __ , the mayors and aldermen of said cities shall post up a list of voters thus prepared in one or more public places in said cities, respectively, at least ten days prior to said annual election.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the officers presiding at any election shall keep and use the check-list herein required at the polls during the election of all officers, and no vote shall be received unless delivered by the voter in person, and not until the presiding officer has had opportunity to be satisfied of his identity, and shall find his name on the list, and mark it, and ascertain that his vote is single.

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