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


GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 50.
I. Any citizen, a qualified voter according to
the requirements of the Act to provide Tor the
more efficient government O. the rebel States,
passed March 2nd 1867, and t::r act supplementary
thereto, passed March 23d 1867, is eligible to Office
in the provisional government [ fNorth 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 subscrlbeda and
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 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, SUBJ
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 as security shall not exceed the
penal sum of one hundred dollars. One or more
suretes being citizens, and worth, In the aggrc-
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 sheritfs, magistrates
and police forces, are required to be Vlgiant 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 cti
zens within the territorial limits of the military
post, may be necessary and the neglect or re-
fusal of any person to aid and assist in the eXecu
tion of the orders of the commanding officer will
be deemed a misdcmeanor, punishable by such
fine and Imprisonment as may be imposed by
m 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-
tics 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 taXim-
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-
nicpal 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 convcyances on railroads, high
ways, streets or navigable waters, no discrinina-
tior. because of color 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
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 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 or hire so claimed, and
may be sold in satisfaction of any judgment for
the same: Pfovided, That any unsatistied claim
for labor bestowed upon the cultivation of such
cotton, corn, 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 a lien 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