secured or protected by this act, or to different
punishment, pains, or penalties on account of such person
having at any time been held in a condition of slavery or
involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, or by
reason of his color or race, than is prescribed for the
punishment of white persons, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine
not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment not exceeding one
year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

"SEC. 3. _And be it further enacted_, That the district
courts of the United States, within their respective
districts, shall have, exclusively of the courts of the
several States, cognizance of all crimes and offenses
committed against the provisions of this act, and also,
concurrently with the circuit courts of the United States,
of all causes, civil and criminal, affecting persons who are
denied or can not enforce in the courts or judicial
tribunals of the State or locality where they may be, any of
the rights secured to them by the first section of this act;
and if any suit or prosecution, civil or criminal, has been
or shall be commenced in any State court against any such
person, for any cause whatsoever, or against any officer,
civil or military, or other person, for any arrest or
imprisonment, trespasses or wrongs, done or committed by
virtue or under color of authority derived from this act or
the act establishing a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and
Refugees, and all acts amendatory thereof, or for refusing
to do any act upon the ground that it would be inconsistent
with this act, such defendant shall have the right to remove
such cause for trial to the proper district or circuit court
in the manner prescribed by the 'Act relating to _habeas
corpus_ and regulating judicial proceedings in certain
cases,' approved March 3, 1863, and all acts amendatory
thereof. The jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters
hereby conferred on the district and circuit courts of the
United States shall be exercised and enforced in conformity
with the laws of the United States, so far as such laws are
suitable to carry the same into effect; but in all cases
where such laws are not adapte