WILBUR, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court dismissing appellant's complaint for lack of jurisdiction. The appellant predicated jurisdiction upon an alleged cause of action under legislation enacted by Congress during the reconstruction period (Act April 20, 1871, ch. 22, §§ 1, 2, 17 Stat. 13) and now embodied in the United States Code (8 U.S.C.A. §§ 43, 47). The latter section (47) expressly authorizes an action...
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