Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 21 — Civil Rights
§ 1994. Peonage abolished
Statutory text
The holding of any person to service or labor under the system known as peonage is abolished and forever prohibited in any Territory or State of the United States; and all acts, laws, resolutions, orders, regulations, or usages of any Territory or State, which have heretofore established, maintained, or enforced, or by virtue of which any attempt shall hereafter be made to establish, maintain, or enforce, directly or indirectly, the voluntary or involuntary service or labor of any persons as peons, in liquidation of any debt or obligation, or otherwise, are declared null and void.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 1990.)
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1994
(R.S. § 1990.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 1990.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 1990 derived from act Mar. 2, 1867, ch. 187, § 1, 14 Stat. 546.
Section was formerly classified to section 56 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.
Credits
(R.S. § 1990.)