The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-03
Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, s. c., May so, 1867,

GENERAL ORDERS,
No. SO.
1. Any citizen, q 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, 1867 is eligible to Office
Carolina All persons appointed to office will be
required to take the oath prescribed by the act
aforesaid, and to file the same duly subscribedand
sworn with the Post Commander.
IL. 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 provf-
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 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 police forces are required to be Ti@iant 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
fusal of any person to aid and assist in the execu
ton of the orders of the commanding officer will
be deemed misdemeanor, punishable by such
fine and Imprisonment as may be imposed by
military tribunal approved by the Commanding
General.
VI. No license for the sale of Intoxicating liq-
uors in quantities less than one gallon 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 regula-
tions, nor exempt him from the payment of such
other license fees may be imposed by mp
nicipal or other competent authority.
VII All contracts hereafter made for the man
ufacture sale or transportation, storage or lnsu-
rance of Intoxicating liquors shall, within this
Military District, be deemed and treated against
public policy, and no civil action, suit or pro-
ceeding for the enforcement of any such contract
shall be entertained in any court
VIII. In public conveyances on railroads, high
ways, streets or navigable waters, no discrinina-
tion.because of color 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
mandng General, besides such damages as the
injured party may sue for and recover in the Civil
Courts.
X The remedy by distress for rent is abolish
ed 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,
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