The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-11
Official.

500. The exemption hereby made shall not be
waived or defeated by the act of the defendant.-
be ascertained by the Sheriff or other officer en-
forcing the execution, who shall specifically de-
scribe the same, and make u 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
legal tender in the payment of all deBys. dues,
and demands, shall be recognized in orth and
South Carolina. And all cases in which the
same shall be rendered in payment and refused
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 debtor or one
charged as such without fraud, whether consist
ing of money advanced for the purposes of aeri-
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 the use of the same be Ia any
wise interfered with except in the execution of u
judgment or final decree in cases where they afe
authorized to be enforced.
x. In suits brought to recover ordinary
debts known as actions er contrdct, ball. as hereto
fore authorized shall not be demanded by the suit
taken by the sheriff or other officer serving
the process in suits for trespass, libel wrongful
conversion OF property, and other cases, known
as actions e1 detico, ball. heretofore authorized,
may be demanded and taken. The prohibition
of bail in cases er contractu shall not extend to
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 ofense it shall be the
duty oil such magistrate or officer TO issue his
warrant upon the recognzance 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 s1ch weapons on the person
will be deemed an aggravation of the offense. A
violation of this order will render the offender
amenabe to trial and punishment by military
commission. Whenever wounding or killing
shall result from the use of such weapons, proof
that the party carried or concealed q deadly
weapon shall be deemed evidence of a felonious
attempt to take the life of the injured person.
XIII. The orders heretofore issued in this
military department prohibiting the punishment
OF crimes and otfenses by whipping, manning,
branding stocks, pillory, 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 stolen is of the value of $ of assault and
battery with intent to kill, or of any assault with
a deadly weapon, shall be deemed guilty of felo-
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 sos shall
be punished by Imprisonment at hard labor for q
term not exceeding one year in the discretion of
the court.
XIV. The Governors of North and South
Carolina shall have authority within their juris-
dctions 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-
ceedngs in bankruptcy in accordance with the
acts of Congress in such cases made and provided,
nor with the collection of any tax, mpost, excise
or charge levied by authority of the United
States or OF the provisional governments of North
and South Carolina; but no Imprisonment for
due taxes shall be allowed, nor shall this Or
der or any law of the provisional governments of
North and South Carolina operate to deny to minor
children or children coming of age OIL their legal
representatives, nor to suspend as to them any
right of action, remedy or proceeding against ex-
ecutors, administrators, trustees, guardians, mas
ters or clerks of equity courts, other officers
persons holding tiducary relation to the persons
or the subject matter of the action proceeding.
XVII. Any law ordinance heretofore In
force in North South Carolina inconsistent
with the provisions of this General Order is here
by suspended and declared imperative.
By command of MajOrGen. D. E. Sickles.
j. w. CLOUS, Capt.
3Sth U. 8. Infantry, A. d. c. & A. A. A. G.