The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-11
OFFICIAL.
Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, 8. c., MAY 80. 1867

| OAANAANSS-SN'3
GENERAL ORDERS, ...-.
| I. 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 supplementary
thereto, passed March 3d. 1857 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 subscribed and
sworn with the Post Commander
| II. All citizens assessed for taxes, and who
qualified to serve jurors. 1t shall be the duty
| OF the proper civil officers charged with provi-
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 or vocation sub
ject to such impartial regulations 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 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 sheriffs magistrates
and police forces, are required to be vigiant and
efcientin 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 or re-
fusal of any person to aid and assist in the
ton of the orders of the commanding officer will
deemed mISnPme1nnr nnniShahlp nv
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 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. Ii 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 an additional charge, and does not excuse
the party from the observance of local regua-
lions, 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.
ufacture, sale or transportation storage or insu-
Military District, be deemed and treated as against
public policy, and no civil action, suit or pro-
ceediDg 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 dfscrinina-
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
handing General besides such damages as 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 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,
corn or other produce so impounded shall be held
as security for the rent hire claimed, and
may be sold in satisfaction of any judgment for
the same: Provided, That any unsatisfied 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 lien on such cotton corn 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 Ii, 1867. 35-1aW3t