The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-13
OFFICIAL.
Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, s. c., May 30. 1867

CHARLESTON, s. c., May 30, 1867.
GENERAL ORDERS,
/. Any citizen, a qualified voter according II
the requirements OF the Act to provide for tn,
more efficient government of the rebel States
passed March 2nd, 1867, and the act supplemental,
thereto passed March 3d. 1867, is eligible to Office
in the provisional government of North and South
Carolina. All persons appointed to office will b.
required to take the oath prescribed by the ac
aforesaid, and to file the same duly subscribed ant
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
eral jurisdictions, without delay, and ascertain
the names of all qualified persons and place them
on the jury lists, and from such revised lists al
jurors shall be hereafter summoned and drawn r
the manner required by law.
| Ill 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 security shall not exceed the
penal sum of one hundred dollars. One more
| 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 shcriffS, magistrates
and police forces, are required to be viglant and
eficicntin maintaining ordcr 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 cti-
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
be deemed 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 lq-
uors in quantities less than one gallon or to be
drank on the premises, shall be granted to any
person other than al 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 additional CHARGE and does not excuse
the party from the observance of local regula-
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
rance of intoxicating liquors shall, within this
Military District be deemed and treated as against
puDHc pOlcy, anu no civil actlOn, 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 discrinina-
ton 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 msdemeanor 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, let out for hire or
rent, cotton, corn or other produce of the same,
when severed from the land, may be impounded
but the shall not be removed. And cotton,
corn or other produce so impounded shall be held
as security for the rent or hire claimed, and
may be sold in satisfaction of any Judgment for
the same: PrO0ided, 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 J.;
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 Is, 1867. 35-1aw3t