The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-18
OFFICIAL.
Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, s. c., May so, 1867.

headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, S. c., May so, 1867.
GENERAL. ORDERS,
No. S2
/. Any citizen, a qualified voter according to
the requirements of the Act to provide for the
more efficient government of the rebel States,
passed March 2nd, 1867, and the act supplementary
thereto, passed March Esd, 1867, is eligible TO office
in the provisional government of North and South
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.
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 provi-
ding lists of jurors, to proceed within their sew
cral 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 or 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 security shall not exceed the
penal sum of one hundred dollars One or 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 town officers, and all sherifs, magistrates
and police forces, are required to be vlgllant 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 as many of the citi-
zens, within the territorial limits of the military
fusal of any person to aid and assist i'll the
ton of the orders of the commanding officer will
be deemed a misdemeanor, punishable by such
| fine and Imprisonment as may be imposed by a
military tribunal approved by the Commanding
| General.
VI. No license for the sale of Intoxicating liq-
uors 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 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 taxi
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 as may be imposed by mu-
nicipal or other competent authority.
VII. All contracts hereafter made for the man.
ufacturc, sale transportation, storage or insu-
rance of Intoxicating liquors SHALL within this
Military District be deemed and treated as against
public policy, and no CIVIL actlOn, suit or pro-
| ceeding for the enforcement of any such contract
shall be entertained in any court.
| VIII. In public convcyances on railroads, high
| ways, streets navigable waters, no discrinina-
tion because of color or 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
manding General, besides such damages the
injured party may sue for and recover in the Civil
Courts.
TX. The remedy by distress for rent is abolish
ed. Where lands are leased, let out for hire ol
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
corn or other produce so impounded shall be held
as security for the rent or hire so claimed, anG
may be sold in satisfaction of any judgment fol
the same PfOviczed, That any unsatisfed claim
for labor bestowed upon the cultivation of sucl
cotton, corn, or other produce shall in no cast
be postponed to any demand for rent or hire
but to the extent of such claim for labor there
shall be lien on such cotton, corn or other pro
duce, having preference over any claim for rent
or hire.
By command of Maj. Gen. D. E. SICKLEs:
j. w. CLOUS,
Capt. 3Sth U. s. Infantry,
A. D. c., and A. A. A. G.
| June 13, 1867. 35-1aw3t