...evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as Is enjoyed by white citizens, and...taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other. There is one section applicable to personal rights. Now the next section: Sec. 1978. All...

...VoL XW. pp. 27-29. VOL. XIX. — 19 real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and...citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary...

...jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence,...the security of person and property as is enjoyed bv white citizens, declares that they shall be subject " To like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes,...

...parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sue, hold, and enjoy real and personal property, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and...person and property as is enjoyed by WHITE citizens." That this law was intended to establish equality between men in their individual capacity, and had...

...purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and...citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none others." Section 2 enacts, that "any person, who, under color of any law,...

...and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and...citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation ory custom, to the contrary...

...year, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 1 6. And be it further enacted, That all persons within...regulation, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. No tax or charge shall be imposed or enforced by any State upon any person immigrating thereto from...

...purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and...citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary...

...the section.13 With the exception of the assurance that the persons protected were "to be entitled to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings...person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens," section 1 of the Act was confined to enumerated safeguards. Despite its apparent potential for a "latitudinarian"...

...purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and...citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary...