The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-06-19

OFFICIAL.
headquarters Second MlIltary District,

GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 50. a d
/. 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, 1857, and the act supplementary
thereto, passed March sd 1861 Is eligible
in the provisional government of North and south.
Carolina. All persons appointed to office VIII De
required to take the oath prescribed by the act
aforesaid and to file the same duly subscrlbedand
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. It shall be the duty
of the proper civil officers, charged with Prov
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 iury lists and from such revised lists all
Jurors shall be hereafter summoned and drawn In
the manner required by law.
Ill All citizens are eligible to follow any
licensed calling, employment or vocation, SUD-
ject to such impartial regulations as may be pre-
scribed by municipal or other competent autnor-
ity, not inconsistent with common right and the
constitution and laws of the United States. Inc
bond required as security shall not exceed the
a 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 lust 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 vigliant and
efficient in maintaining ORDER and in the discharge
of their duties, they will be expected to coop
crate with the military authorities. -.
" 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-
zes, 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 execn
!. ga 1,aa IF fta mn
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 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 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 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.
ufacture sale or transportation, storage or insu-
rance of intoxicating liquors shall, within this
Military District be deemed and treated as 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 dscrinina-
ton because of color or caste shall be made, and
the common right of all citizens therein shall be
regulation will be deemed misdemeanor and
render the offender liable to arrest and trial by