The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-02-20

The following is the bill as corrected and
passed by the House:
"a BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE MORE Ep-
FICIENT GOVERNMENT OF THE INsURREc-
TIoNARY STATES"
Whereas The pretended State Govern
ments of the late so-called Confederate States
of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana,
Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, were set up
without the authority of Congress and with
out the sanction of the people and
Whereas, The so pretended Governments
afford no adequate protection for life or
property, and countenance and encourage
lawlessness and crime; and
Whereas, 1t is necessary that peace and
good order should be enforced in the So
called States, until loyal and republican
State Governments can belegally established.
Therefore
BE it enacted 6y the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That the so-called
Confederate States shall be divided into mil
itary districts and made subject to the mill
tary authority of the United States, as here
matter prescribed; and for that purpose
Virginia shall constitute the LIST District,
North Carolina and South Carolina the lid
District, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida the
Hid District, Mississippi and Arkansas the
" District, and Louisiana and Texas the
With District.
"SEc. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the General of the Ar
my to assign to the command of each of said
Districts an officer of the Regular Army not
below the rank OF Brigadier- General, and to
detail sufficient military force to enable
such officer to perform his duties and enforce
his authority in the district to which he is
ASSIGNED.
" SEC. 8. And Be it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of each officer assigned as
aforesaid to protect alfpersons in their rights
ofperson and property, to suppress insurrec-
ton, disorder and violence, and to punish or
caused to be punished all disturbers of the
public peace and criminals and to this end
he may allow local civil tribunals to take iu-
risdiction of and to try offenders, or when,
in his judgment, it may be necessary for the
trial of offenders, he shall have power to or
ganize military commissions or tribunals for
that purpose, anything in the constitution
and laws of the so-called States to the con-
trary notwithstanding and all legislative
and judicial proceedings or processes to pre-
vent or control the proceedings of said mill
tary tribunals, and all interference by said
pretended State Governments with the exer-
else of military authority under this act, shall
be void and of no effect.
Sec. 4. Ind be it further enacted, That
courts and judicial officers of the United
States shall not issue writs of habeas corpus
in behalf of persons in military custody e.
cept in cases IN phich the person is held to an
sacsr only for crime or crimes exclusively Nth
in the jurisdiction of the Courts of the United
States pithaat said military districts therein,
unless some commissioner or officer on duty in
in the district wherein the person is detained
shall indosse upon said petition statement
certifying, upon honor, that he has knowledge
or information as to the cause and circum-
stances of the alleged detention, and that he
believes the same to be wrongful, and further
that he believes that the Endorsed petition
is preferred in good faith and in furtherance
ofjusties, and not to hinder or delay the
punishment of crime All persons put under
military arrest by virtue OF this act shall be
tried without unnecessary delay, and no cruel
or unnatural punishment shall be inflicted.
Sec. 5. A,,d be 1t further enacted, That no
sentence of any military commission or tri-
bunal hereby authorized, affecting the life or
liberty of any person, shall be executed until
it is approved by the superior officer in COM
mand of the district and the laws and reg
ulations for the government Of the army
shall not be affected by this act, except in so
far as they conflict with its provisions.