The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-04
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debts known as actions er contrdct ball. as hereto
fore authorized, shall not be demanded by the suit
or nor 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 decto bail, heretofore authorized,
may be demanded and taken. The prohibition
OF bail in cases er coatrdctu 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-
cogn1Zances 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, it shall be the
duty OF such magistrate or officer 10 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 aggrlvation of the offensc. A
violation of this order will render the offender
amenable to trial and punishment by military
| commission. Whenever wounding killing
| shall result from the use OF such weapons, proof
that the party carried or concealed a deadly
weapon shall be deemed evidence of telOnious
| attempt to take the life of the injured person.
XIII. The orders heretofore issued in this
military department prohibiting the punishment
OF crimes and offenses by whipping manning
branding stocks, pllory, 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 $685. 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 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 S5 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 pardon any
person convicted and sentenced by civil court,
and to remit fines and penalties.
XVI. Nothing in this order shall be con-
srued to restrain prevent the operation of pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy in accordance with the
acts of Congress in such cases made and provided,
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, 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 Oh their legal
representatives, nor to suspend as to them any
right of action, remedy or proceeding against
ecutors, administrators, trustees, guardians, mas
tiers, or clerks of equity courts, other officers OIL
persons holding tiduciary relation to the persons
or the subject matter of the action or proceeding
XVII. Any law or 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 Major-Gen. d. E. Sickles.
| j. W. CLOUS, Capt.
3sth U. s. Infantry, A. D. c. 81 A A. a. G.