Senator Lyman Trumbull reported the Bill, on January 12, 1866.105 In its initial form, the Bill conferred citizenship on all persons, except untaxed Indians, who inhabited the states or territories and made it a crime to discriminate against their civil rights and immunities.106 The initial Bill essentially guaranteed equal enjoyment of the privileges and immunities of citizenship, but this language was removed from the Bill’s final draft. Nevertheless, in its enacted form the Act recognized the civil rights 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 full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white 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 notwithstanding bc.edu/dam/files/schools/law/lawreviews/journals/bclawr/45_2/02_TXT.htm
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