The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-17

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of want and suffering must be heed
ed. Moved by these considerations,
the following regulations are an
nounced. They will continue in
force, with such notifications as the
occasion may require, until the civil
government of the respective States
shall be established, in accordance
with the requirements of the Govern
ment of the United States.
The Commanding General earnest
ly desires and confidently believes
that the observance of these regula-
tlons, and the cooperation of all
persons concerned in employing fairly
and Justly the advantages still re-
naming to them, will mitigate the
distress now existing; and that the
avenues of industry, enterprise and
the organization thus opened, will
contribute to the permanent welfare
and future happiness of the people:
l. Imprisonment for debt is pro-
hibited; unless the defendant in exc
cution shall be convicted of o fraudu-
lent concealment or disposition of his
property, with intent to hinder, delay
and prevent the creditor in the reco-
very of his debt or demand. And
the proceedings now established in
North and South Carolina, respect
lively, for the trial and determination
OF such questions, may be adopted.
III. Judgments or DEGREES, for the
payment of money, or causes of
action arising between the 10th of
December, 1860, and the 18th of May,
1865, shall not be enforced by execu-
ton against the property or the per
son of the defendant. Proceedings
in such causes of action, now pend
ing, shall be stayed, and no suit or
process shall be hereafter instituted
or commenced for any such causes of
action.
LII. Sheriffs, coroners and consta-
bles are hereby directed to suspend
for twelve calendar months the sale
of all property upon execution or
process, on liabilities contracted prior
to the 10Th If December, 1860, unless
upon the written consent of the de-
PENDANTS, except in cases where the
plaintiff, or, ip his absence, his agent
or attorney, shall, upon oath, with
corroborative testimony, allege and
prove that the defendant is removing.
or intends fraudulently to remove,
his property beyond the territorial
jurisdiction of the court. The sale
of real or personal property by fore
closure of mortgage is likewise. sus-
pended for twelve calendar months,
except in cases where the payment of
interest money, accruing since the
18th day of May, 1865, shall not have
been made before the day of sale.
Nv. Judgments or DEGREES entered
or enrolled, on causes of action
arising subsequent to the 18th of
May, 1865, may be enforced by exc
cution against the property of the
defendant; and in the application of
the money arising under such execu-
tions, regard shall be had to the prior
ity of liens, unless in cases where the
good faith of any lien shall be drawn
in question. In such cases, the usual
mode of proceeding adopted in North
and South Carolina, respectively, to
determine that question, shall be
adopted.
V. All proceedings for the recovery
of money under contracts, whether
under seal or by parole, the consider
alton for which was the purchase of
negroes, are suspended. Judgments
or DEGREES entered or enrolled for
such causes of action, shall not be
enforced.
VI. All advances of moneys, sub
sistence, implements and fertilizers,
loaned, used, employed or required
for the purpose Of aiding the agricul-
tural pursuits of the people, shall be
protected. And the existing laws,
which have provided the most eff
cient remedies in such cases for the
lender, will be supported and en-
forced. Wages for labor performed
in the production of the crop shall be
a lien on the crop, and payment of
the amount due for such wages shall
be enforced by the like remedies pro-
vided to secure advances of money
and other means for the cultivation
of the crop.
VII. In all sales Of property under
execution or by order of any court,
there shall be reserved out of the pro-
perty of any defendant, who has a
family dependent upon his or her
labor, dwelling house and appurte-
nances and twenty acres of land for
the use and occupation of the family
of the defendant, and necessary arti-
cles of furniture, apparel, subsist-