The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-06
Official.

ses the exemption shall extend only to clothing,
! implements of trade or other employment usII-
| ally followed by the defendant, of the value OF
500. The exemption hereby made shall not be
waived or defeated by the act of the defendant
The exempted property of the defendant shall
De aseertslned by the Sheriff or other off19er en-
| scribe the same, and make q report thereof in
| each case to the Court.
VIII. The currency of the United States de-
clared by the Congress of the United States to be
a legal tender in the payment of all debts, dues
| and demands, shall be recognized in North and
South Carolina. And all cases in which the
by any public officer will be at once reported to
these headquarters or to the commanding officer
of the post within which such officer resides.
TX Property of an absent dsDIor or one
charged as such without fraud, whether consist
ing Of money advanced for the purposes of agr-
culture or appliances for the cultivation of the
SOIL shall not be taken under the process known
as foreign attachment; but the lien created by
any existing law shall not be disturbed, nor shall
the possession or the use of the same be in any
wise interfered with except in the execution of a
Judgment or final decree in cases where they are
authorized to be enforced.
X. In suits brought to recover ordinary
debts known as actions contfactI bail, hereto
fore authorized, shall not be demanded by the suit
or nor taken by the sheriff other officer serving
the process in suits for trespasS, libel, wrongful
conversion OF property, and other cases, known
as actions delctO, ball. as heretofore authorized
may be demanded and taken. The prohibition
parties about to leave the State, but the fact of
intention must be clearly established by proof.
XI. In criminal proceedings the usual re-
cognizances shall be required and taken by the
proper civil officers heretofore authorized by law
to take the same, provided that upon complaint
being made to any magistrate or other person
authorized by law to issue warrant for breach
OF the peace, or any criminal oense, itsha be the
duty Of such magistrate officer TO issue his
warrant upon the recognizance of the complaint to
prosecute without requiring him to give security
on such recogniZance.
XII. The practice of carrying deadly weap
ons, except by officers and soldiers in the militia
~ service of the United States is prohibited
The concealment of sIch weapons on the person
will be deemed an aggravatiOn of the otfense. A
violation of this order will render the offender
amenable to trial and punishment by military
commission. Whenever wounding killing
shall result from the of such weapons, proof
that the party carried concealed a deadly
weapon shall be deemed evidence of felonious
| attempt TO take the life of the injured person.
XIII. The orders heretofore issued in this
military department prohibiting the punishment
! o! crimes and ofenscs by whipping, manning,
branding, stocks, pilory, other corporal punish
ment are in force and will be obeycd by all persons
XIV. The punishment of death in Ger
tain cases of burglary and larceny imposed by
the existing laws of the provisional governments
in this military district is abolished. ANY person
convicted of burglary or of larceny, when the
property is of the value of $25 ofassault and
battery with intent to kill, of any assault with
Il deadly weapon, shall be deemed guilty of fclo-
ny, and shall be punished by Imprisonment at
hard labor for a term not exceeding ten years nor
less than two years. in the discretion of the court
having jurisdiction thereof. Larceny, when the
value of the property stolen is less than S2 shall
be punished by Imprisonment at hard labor for d
term not exceeding one year in the discretion of
the court.
XIV. The Governors of North and South
Carolina shall have authority within their uris-
dictions respectively, to reprieve or pardon any
person convicted and sentenced by civil court,
and to remit fines and penalties.
XVI. Nothing in this order shall be con-
strued to restrain or prevent the operation ofpro
cecdings in bankruptcy in accordance with the
acts of Congress in such cases made and provided,
nor with the collection of any tax, impost, excise
or charge levied by authority of the United
States or of the provisional governments of North
and South Carolina; but no imprisonment for
over due taxes shall be allowed, shall this
der or any law of the provisional governments of
North and South Carolina operate to deny to minor
children children coming of age their legal
representatives, nor TO suspend as to them any
right of action, remedy or proceeding against ex-
ecutOrs, administrators, trustees guardians, mas
tiers, clerks of equity courts, other officers or
persons holding fiduciary relation to the persons
or the subject matter of the action proceeding
XVII. Any law or ordinance heretofore in
force in North or South Carolina inconsistent
with the provisions of this General Order is here
by suspended and declared imperative.
By command of Major-Gen. D. E. Sickles.
j. W. CLOUS, Capt.
3Sth u S. Infantry, A. d. G. & A. A. A. G.