Note 6 — AMENDMENT 13
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Pursuant to its enforcement powers under section 2 of this amendment, Congress, on March 2, 1867 adopted a statute (14 Stat. 546), which is now found in 8 U.S.C.A. § 56 and 18 U.S.C.A. § 1581, by the terms of which peonage was prohibited, and persons returning any one to a condition of peonage were subjected to criminal punishment. This statute was upheld in Clyatt v. United States, 197 U.S. 207 (1905).