ver such associations shall,
without cost to the Government, provide suitable teachers
and means of instruction; and he shall furnish protection as
may be required for the safe conduct of such schools.

"SEC. 14. _And be it further enacted_, That in every State
or district where the ordinary course of judicial
proceedings has been interrupted by the rebellion, and until
the same shall be fully restored, and in every State or
district whose constitutional relations to the Government
have been practically discontinued by the rebellion, and
until such State shall have been restored in such relations,
and shall be duly represented in the Congress of the United
States, the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be
parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease,
sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to
have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings
concerning personal liberty, personal security, and the
acquisition, enjoyment, and disposition of estate, real and
personal, including the constitutional right to bear arms,
shall be secured to and enjoyed by all the citizens of such
State or district, without respect to race or color, or
previous condition of slavery. And whenever in either of
said States or districts the ordinary course of judicial
proceedings has been interrupted by the rebellion, and until
the same shall be fully restored, and until such State shall
have been restored in its constitutional relations to the
Government, and shall be duly represented in the Congress of
the United States, the President, shall, through the
commissioner and the officers of the bureau, and under such
rules and regulations as the President, through the
Secretary of War, shall prescribe, extend military
protection and have military jurisdiction over all cases and
questions concerning the free enjoyment of such immunities
and rights; and no penalty or punishment for any violation
of law shall be imposed or permitted because of race or
color, or previous condition of slavery, other or greater
than the penalty or punishment to which white persons may be
liable by law for the like offense. But the jurisdiction
conferred by this section upon the officers of the bureau
shall not exist in any State where the