to the special legislation of which they were capable,
relegated the question to the State governments, reserving only the right
to adjudicate such causes where States were indisposed to afford their
citizens adequate protection.

CHAPTER XIII.

KU-KLUX LAW.

Any person, under color of law, etc., of any State, depriving another
of any rights, etc., secured by the Constitution of the United
States, made liable to the party injured, 7034--Penalty for
conspiring, by force, to put down the government of the United
States, etc., 7035--Conspirator's doing, etc., any act in furtherance
of the object of the conspiracy, and injuring another, liable to
damages therefor, 7035--What to be deemed a denial by any State to
any class of its people of their equal protection under the laws,
7036--What unlawful combination to be deemed a rebellion against the
government of the United States (obsolete), 7037--Certain persons not
to be jurors in certain cases, 7038--Jurors to take oath; false
swearing, in taking this oath, to be perjury, 7038--Any person
knowing that certain wrongs are about to be done, and having power to
prevent, etc., neglects so to do, and any such wrong is done, is made
liable for all damages caused thereby, 7039.

_Act of the Congress of the United States. An Act to enforce the
provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, and for other purposes._

ART. 7034. [1.] 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 rights, privileges, or immunities,
secured by the Constitution of the United States, shall, any such law,
statute, ordinance, regulation, 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 proceeding 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 of appeal, review upon error,
and other remedies provided in like cases, in such courts under the
provisions of the Act of the 9th 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