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[CITE: 42USC1994]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 21--CIVIL RIGHTS
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
 
Sec. 1994. Peonage abolished

    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.

(R.S. Sec. 1990.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1990 derived from act Mar. 2, 1867, ch. 187, Sec. 1, 14 
Stat. 546.
    Section was formerly classified to section 56 of Title 8, Aliens and 
Nationality.
