The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-16
OFFICIAL.

ly to the benefit of families-that is to say, pa
rent or parents and child or children-n other ca
ses the exemption shall extend only to clothing,
implements of trade or other employment usu-
ally followed by the defendant, of the value of
Sl0O. The exemption hereby made shall not be
waived or defeated by the act of the defendant
The exempted property of the defendant shall
be ascertained by the Sheriff or other officer
forcing the execution, who shall specifically de-
scribe the same, and make 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 debts, dnes,
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 depJor or one
charged as such without fraud, whether consist
ing of money advanced for the purposes of agri-
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.
K. In suits brought to recover ordinary
debts known as actions contrdctu, ball. as 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
actions deicto bail, as 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.
XII. 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, itshal be the
duty of such magistrate or 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
ry service of the United States, is prohibited
The concealment of sIch weapons on the person
will be deemed an aggravation of the offense. A
violation of this order will render the offender
amenable to trial and punishment by military
commission. Whenever wounding or killing
shall result from the use 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
OF crimes and ofenses by whipping, manning,
branding Stocks pilOry, or other corporal punish
ment are in force and will be obcycd 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
deadly weapon, shall be deemed guilty of felo-
ny, and shall be punished by Imprisonment at
hard labor for 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 S25 shall
be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a
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-
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 pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy in accordance with the
acts of Congress in such cases made and provided,
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 aye OF their legal
representatives, nor TO suspend as to them any
right of action remedy or proceeding against eX-
ecutors administrators, trustees, guardians, mas
ters clerks of equity courts other officers
persons holding a tducary relation TO the persons
or the subject matter of the action or 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 MajorGen. D. E Sickes.
j. w. CLOUS, Capt.
3Sth U. S. Infantry, A. D. c. q A. A. A. G.