The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16
General Annestt I'M North-carolina.

An. ACT GRANTING GENERAL AMNESTY AND
!; PARDON TO ALL OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS
I, OF THE STATE OF NoRTH-C ARoLINA, OR OF
THE LATE CoNFEDERATE STATES ARMIES,
OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR OFFENCES
COMMITTED, AGAINST THE CRIMINAL LAWS
OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
SECTION 1. Be. 1t enacted By the General
assembly efthe State Of North Carolina, and
1t is hereby enacted by the authority of thes same,
That no person who may have been in the
civil or military service of the State, as Off
GERS or soldiers of the Malta, officers or sol
diers of the Home Guard, officers and soldiers
of the Local Police, officers or soldiers of the
late Confederate States, or as officers and
soldiers of the United States, shall be held to
answer on any indictment, for any duties
imposed on him purporting to be by law
of the State or late Confederate States Gov
eminent, or by virtue of any emanating from
any officer, commissioned or non-commis-
stoned of the Militia, or Home Guard, or
Local Police of North Carolina, or any other
officer, commissioned or non commissioned
of the late Confederate States Government,
or any officer commissioned or non commits
stoned, of the United States Government
That no one of the above named officers or
privates who now are, OF may hereafter be
indicted for any homicides, felonies, or mis-
gmeanors decommitted prior to the LIST day
oil January, A. D, 1866, shall be held to an
swer for the same but, shall be entitled to
full and complete amnesty, pardon and charge
from the same, upon the payments of the
costs Provided, They shall not be taxed
with the payment of the costs upon any in
dictment preferred against them, from and
after the passage of the bills, or in other words
that no officer or private in any of the above
named organizations against wnom no indict-
ment is cow pending, shall be liable to pros
ecution for any offence committed against
the criminal laws of North Carolina prior to
the LIST day of January, A. D. 1866, as afore-
said. saa .s1s. s 5a
Z SEC. 2. Belt further enacted, That in all
cases where indictments are now pending Ell
ther in the County or Superior Courts, if the
defendant can show that he was an officer
or private in either of the above named Or
CARNATIONS, at the time it shall be presumed
that he. acted under orders, until the contra
ry shall be made to appear.
Sec. 3. Be further enacted, That all pri-
vate citizens. who on account of age, or
from any other cause, were exempt from ser
vice in any or all of the above named organ
izations, who for the preservation of their
lives or property, or for the protection of
their families. associated themselves together
for the preservation of law and order, in
their respective counties or districts, shall be
entitled to all the benefits and provisions of
this act
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That no
person who may have been in the civil or
military service of the State. or late Confed-
crate States Government, or in the service of
the United States Government, in either of
the above named organizations, shall be held
liable in any civil action for any act done
in the discharge of eny duties imposed upon
him by any law of the State or late Confed-
crate States Government.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That this
act shall be in force from and after its rati-
fcations.
Ratified 18th December, A. D., 1866.