The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-29
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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 suspended for
twelve calendar months, except in cases where
the payment of interest money accruing since the
10Th day of May, 1867 shall not have been made
before the day of sale.
Nv. Judgments DEGREES entered en-
rolled on causes of action arising subsequent to
the 10th of May, 1865. may be enforced by
execution, against the property of the defendant,
and in the application of the money arising I'M
der such executions, regard shall be had to the
priority 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 adop-
ted 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 consideration for which was the pur-
chase of negroes, are suspended. Judgments or
DEGREES entered enrolled for such causes of ac-
ton shall not be enforced.
vi. All advances of moneys, subsistence,
implements, and fertilizers, loaned, used, en-
ployed, or required for the purpose of aiding the
agricultural pursuits of the people, shall be pro-
teeted. and the existing laws which have provi-
ded the most efficient remedies in such cases for
the lender will be supported and enforced wages
for labor performed in the production of the crops
shall be lien on the crop, and payment OF the a.
mount due forsuch wages shall be enforced by the
| like remedies provided to secure advances ofmon-
ey and other means for the cultivation of the SOIL
VII. In all sales of property under execution
or by order of any court there shall reserved out
of the property of any defendant who has a fami-
ly dependent upon his or her labor, dwelling
house and appurtenances and twenty of
land for the use and occupation of the family of
the defendant, and necessary articles of furniture,
| apparel, subsistence, implements of trade, hus-
| bandry or other employment of the value of
| 500. The homestead exemption shall inure on
| ly to the benefit of tamilies-that is to say, pa
rent or parents and child or children-n other ca
| seS the exemption shall extend only to clothing,
| implements of trade or other employment usu-
ally followed by the defendant, of the value of
500. The exemption hereby made shall not be
waived or defeated by the act of the defendant
| The exempted property of the defendant shall
be ascertained by the Sheriff or other officer
| forcing the execution who shall specifically de-
scribe the same, and make report thereof in
| each case to the Court.
| VIII. The currency of the United States de-
clared by the Congress OF the United States to be
a legal tender in the payment of all debts, dues,
and demands, shall be recognized in North and
South Carolina. And all cases in which the
same shall be rendered in payment and refused
| by any public officer will be at once reported to
these headquarters or to the commanding officer
of the post within which such officer resides.
| TX. Property of absent DEBTOR
| charged as such without fraud, whether consist
ing Of money advanced for the purposes of agri-
| culture or appliances for the cultivation of the
soil, shall not be taken under the process known
as foreign attachment but the lien created by
any existing law shall not be disturbed, nor shall
the possession or the use of the same be in any
wise interfcrcd with except in the execution of
Judgment or final decree in cases where they are
authorized to,be enforced.
X In suits brought to recover ordinary
debts known actions cOntractat, ball. as hereto
fore authorized shall not be demanded by the suit
or nor taken by the sheriff other officer serving
the process in suits for trespass, libel, wrongful
conversion OF property, and other cases, known
actions delictO bail, heretofore authorized,
may be demanded and taken. The prohibition
| of bail in cases eI cOntTdctu shall not extend to
parties about to leave the State, but the fact of
| intention must be clearly established by proof.
| XI. In criminal proceedings the usual re-
cognizances shall be required and taken by the
proper civil officers heretofore authorized by law
| to take the same provided that upon complaint
| being made to any magistrate or other person
authorized by law to issue warrant for breach
of the peace any criminal offense shall be the
duty of such magistrate or officer TO issue his
warrant upon the recognizancc OF the complaint to
prosecute without requiring him to give security
on such recognizance.
XII The practice of carrying deadly weap
ons, except by officers and soldiers in the militia
ry service of the United States, is prohibited
The concealment of such weapons on the person
will be deemed an aggravation of the offensc. A
violation of this order will render the offender
amenable to trial and punishment by military
commission. Whenever wounding or killing
shall result from the use OF such weapons, proof
that the party carried or concealed a deadly
weapon shall be deemed evidence of felonious
attempt to take the life of the injured person.
L.
military department prohibiting the punishment
of crimes and offenses by whipping, manning,
branding, stocks, pillory or other corporal punish
ment are in force and will be obcycd by all persons
| XIV. The punishment of death in
! tain cases of burglary and larceny imposed by
| the existing laws of the provisional governments
in this military district, is abolished. Any person
convicted OF burglary or of larceny, when the
property stolen is of the value of S5 assault and
battery with intent to kill, of any assault with
q deadly weapon, shall be deemed guilty of felo-
ny, and shall be punished by imprisonment at
| hard labor for term not exceeding ten years nor
less than two years. in the discretion of the court
having jurisdiction thereof Larceny, when the
value of the property stolen is less than S25 shall
be punished by Imprisonment at hard labor for
term not exceeding one year in the discretion OF
the court.
XIV The Governors of North and South
Carolina shall have authority within their juris
dictions respectively, to reprievc or pardon any
person convicted and sentenced by q civil court,
| and to remit fines and penalties.
| XVI. Nothing in this order shall be con-
strued to restrain or prevent the operation of pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy in accordance with the
acts of Congress in such cases made and provided,
nor with the collection of any tax, impost, excise
or charge levied by authority of the United
States or of the provisional governments of North
and South Carolina but no Imprisonment for
over due taxes shall be allowed, nor shall this
der or any law of the provisional governments OF
North and South Carolina operate to deny to minor
| children or children coming of age Oh their legal
representatives, nor to suspend as to them any
right of action, remedy proceeding against eX-
ecutors, administrators, trustees, guardians, mas
ters clerks of equity courts, or other officers or
persons holding a duciary relation to the persons
or the subject matter of the action or proceeding
| XVII. Any law ordinance heretofore in
force in North South Carolina inconsistent
with the provisions of this General Order is here
| by suspended and declared imperative.
By command of Major- Gen. D. E. Sickles.
J. W. CLOUS, Capt.