The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-08

HD'oR's, 2ND MILITARY DISTRICT,
CHARLESTON. S. c.. Nav 90. 1857.

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CHARLESTON, S. c., May 80, 1857.
General Orders No. 80.
l. 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
supplemental y thereto, passed March 23rd,
1857, is eligible to Office in the provisional
government of North and South Carolina
All persons appointed to office will be re-
quired to take the oath prescribed by the
act aforesaid and to file the same duly sub
scribed and sworn with the Post Comman-
der
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 providing lists of jurors, to proceed
within their several Jurisdictions, without
delay, and ascertain the names of all quail
fed 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 or avocation,
subject to such impartial regulations as may
be prescribed by municipal or other COM
petent authority, not inconsistent with COM
mon 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 aggregate,
double the amount of the bond over and
above Just debts, will be sufficient.
w. The Mayors of cities and other NUM-
cipal and town officers, and all Sherfs, Mag
istrates and Police officers, are required to
be vigilant and efficient in maintaining order,
and in the discharge of their duties. They
will be expected to cooperate with the mil
itary 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 as
many of the citizens, within the territorial
limits OF the military post, as may be neces-
sary, and the neglect or refusal OF any per-
son to aid and assist in the execution 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 Com
handing General.
vi. No license for the sale of intoxicating
liquors 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 license shall be deter
mined, and the fees to be charged for each
license shall be prescribed and collected, by
the municipal or town authorities and APP
propriated 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 imposed by the Internal Revenue laws of
the United States is an additional charge
and does not excuse the party from the OBJ
seryance of local regulations, nor exempt
him from the payment of such other license
fees as may be imposed by the municipal OF
other competent authorities.
VII. All contracts hereafter made for the
manufacture sale or transportation, storage or
insurance of Intoxicating liquors shalt with
in this military district he deemed and treat
ed as against public policy, and no civil ac-
ton, suit or proceeding for the enforcement
of any such contract shall be entertained in
any court.
VIII. In public conyeyances On railroads,
highways streets or navi gable waters, no
discrimination because of color or caste shall
be made and the common right of all eiti-
zens therein shall be recognized and respect
ed. The violation of this regulation will be
deemed a misdemeanor and render the Often
der liable to arrest and trial by Military
tribunal to be desi grated by the command
ing General, besides such damages as the in
jnred party may sue for and recover in the
civil Courts.
TX The remedy by distress for rent is abol-
ished, where lands are leased. or let out tor
hire or rent. Cotton, corn or other produce
of the SALE when severed from the land, may
be impounded, but the same shall not be re-
moved And cotton, corn or other pro-
duce 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 unsatisfed 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 a lien on such
cotton, corn or other produce having prefer
ence over any claim for rent or hire.
By command of Maj. Gen. ID. E. SIcKLEs.
j. w. CLoUs,
Captain 39th g. S. Infantry,
d T. and A. A. G.