The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-22
OFFICIAL.
Headquarters Second Military District,
ru.,,rrroN g n Nov IN 1857

CHARLESTON, 5. e., May oO, 1861.
GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 49,
I. Any citizen, qualified voter according to
| the requirements of the Act to provide for the
more efficient government of the rebel States,
| passed March End, 1867 and the act supplementary
thereto passed March Esd, 1857 is eligible to Office
in the provisional government of North and South
Carolina All persons appointed to office will be
| required to take the oath prescribed by the act
aforesaid, and to file the same duly subscribed and
sworn with the Post Commander.
II. All citizens assessed for taxes, and who
| shall have paid taxes for the current year, are
qualified to serve as jurors. 1t shall be the duty
of the proper civil officers, charged with provi-
ding lists of jurors, to proceed within their sew
eral Jurisdictions, without delay, and ascertain
the names of all qualified persons and place them
| on the jury lists and frOm=such revised lists all
| jurors shall be hereafter summoned and drawn in
the manner required by law.
III. All citizens are eligible to follow any
! licensed calling, employment vocation, sub
ject to such impartial regulations as may be pre-
scribed by municipal or other competent author
| ity, not inconsistent with common right and the
constitution and laws of the United States. The
bond required as security shall not exceed the
penal sum of one hundred dollars. One or more
sureties being citizens, and worth, in the aggre-
gate, double the amount of the bond, over and
| above just debts, will be sufficient.
~. The mayors of cities and other municipal
and town officers, and all sheriffs, magistrates
and police forces, are required to be vigilant and
efficient in maintaining order; and in the discharge
of their duties, they will be expected to coop
crate with the military authorities.
V. Post Commanders may summon to their aid,
whenever the ordinary means at their disposal
shall not be sufficient to execute their orders,
such of the civil officers and many of the citi
zens, within the territorial limits of the military
post, as may be necessary and the neglect or re-
fusal of any person to aid and assist in the execu
ton of the orders of the commanding officer will
be deemed a misdemeanor, punishable by such
fine and Imprisonment as may be imposed by a
military tribunal approved by the Commanding
General
VI No license for the sale of Intoxicating liq-
uors in quantities less than one gallon or to be
drank on the premises, shall be granted to any
person other than an inn-keeper The number
of such licenses shall be determined and the fees
to be charged for each license shall be prescribed
and collected, by the municipal or town authori-
ties and appropriated exclusively for the benefit
of the poor If any person shall be found drunk
on the premises where liquor is sold, the license
may be revoked by any magistrate. The tax i'm
posed by the internal revenue laws of the United
States is additional charge; and does not excuse
the party from the observance of local regua-
tions, nor exempt him from the payment of such
other license fees as may be imposed by mu-
nicipal or other competent authority.
VII. All contracts hereafter made for the man.
ufacure, sale or transportation, storage or insu-
rance of Intoxicating liquors shall, within this
Military District be deemed and treated as against
public policy, and no civil action, suit or pro-
cecding for the enforcement of any such contract
shall be entertained in any court.
VIII. In public cOnvevanceS on railroads, high
ways, streets navigable waters, no discrinina-
ton because of color or caste shall be made, and
the common right of all citizens therein shall be
recognized and respected. The violation of this
regulation will be deemed a misdemeanor and
render the offender liable to arrest and trial by
military tribunal to be designated by the Com
handing General, besides such damages as the
injured party may for and recover in the Civil
Courts.
k The remedy by distress for rent is abolish
cd Where lands are leased, or let Out for hire or
rent, cotton, corn or other produce of the same,
when severed from the land, may be impounded;
but the same shall not be removed. And cotton,
corn or other produce so impounded shall be held
as security for the rent or hire so claimed, and
may be sold in satisfaction of any judgment for
the same: Prorided, That any unsatistied claim
for labor bestowed upon the cultivation of such
cotton, corn, or other produce, shall in no case
be postponed to any demand for rent or hire !;
but to the extent of such claim for labor there
shall be lien on such cotton, corn or other pro-
duce, having preference over any claim for rent
or hire.
By command of Maj. Gen. D. E. SIcKLEs:
j. w. CLOUS,
Capt. 3Sth U. s. Infantry,
A D. c., and A. A. A. G.
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