This bill, entitled “An Act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights,”[239] has since stood on the statute book as a finality,--these rights, in the terms of the statute, consisting of “the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of [1st] inns, [2d] public conveyances on land or water, [3d] theatres, and other places of public amusement”; to which another section, rising to a higher plane, adds the declaration [4th] “That no citizen possessing all other qualifications which are or may be prescribed by law shall be disqualified for service as grand or petit juror in any court of the United States, or of any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,”--with such security to the colored citizens of this inestimable right as may be found in the provision that “any officer or other person, charged with any duty in the selection or summoning of jurors, who shall exclude or fail to summon any citizen for the cause aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined _not more_ than five thousand dollars.” FOOTNOTES [1] Case of Plau, French Consul-General at New York. [2] April 30, 1864: A Bill to provide for the greater Efficiency of the Civil-Service of the United States. Congressional Globe, 38th Cong. 1st Sess., p. 1985; also, _ante_, Vol. XI. p. 278, seqq. [3] Times, December 31, 1870. Executive Documents, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 1, Foreign Relations, p. 368. [4] James, iii. 17. [5] Speech, February 14th: Congressional Globe, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., p. 1016. For the portion of the Speech referred to, setting forth the authorities on this subject, see Appendix (A), pp. 41-44. [6] Law of Nations, p. 281. [7] 7 Wheaton, R., 487. [8] See Appendix (A), pp. 43, 44. [9] House Reports, 40th Cong. 2d Sess., No. 64, p. 5. [10] Merchant of Venice, Act iv. Sc. 1. [11] Letter of Treasurer Spinner to Senator Wilson, February 16, 1872: Congressional Globe, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., p. 1072. [12] Commentaries on American Law, Vol. I. p. 128. [13] A Treatise of the Relative Rights and Duties of Belligerent and Neutral Powers, in Maritime Affairs, by Robert Ward, Esq., Barrister at Law, (London, 1801,) p. 166. [14] Commentaries upon International Law, Vol. III. p. 282. [15] Ibid., p. 427. [16] Phases et Causes Célèbres. Tom. II. p. 407. [17] Speech on the Report of the Foreign Enlistment Bill, April 16, 1823: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, N. S., Vol. VIII. col. 1056. [18] Occasional Productions, pp. 176, 177. See the letter to William H. Trescott upon Public and Diplomatic Subjects.