The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-03
Important Order.

Important Order.
The following order from General
Candy was promulgated on the 31st:
I. Paragraph III of General Orders
No. 10, from the headquarters Of tbs
Second Military District, dated April
IL, 1867, is modified as follows:
Judgments or DEGREES for the paw
. ment of money on causes of action
arising in North Carolina between
the 10th of May, 1861, and the 10th
day q of April, i1865, and in South
Carolina between the 10th day Of
December, 1850, and the Doth day of
April, 1866, shall not be. enforced, by
execution, against the person or pro-
perty OF the defendant. Proceed
lngs for such causes of action now
pending shall be stayed, and no suit
or process shall be instituted or COM
menced on, such causes of action
until after the civil government of
the respective. States shall be estab-
ed In accordance with the laws of the
United States.
Paragraph IIIof the same order is
mOulueu as 1OlOWS:
Sheriffs, coroners and constables
are hereby directed to suspend the
sale of all property upon execution,
or process under any Judgment or
decree! of o court of the so-called
Confederate States, or of the State
OF North Carolina, rendered between
the Goth day of May, 1861, and the
organization of the provisional 90.
vernment: of said State, under the
Presidents proclamation of the 29th
day of April, 1866, or of the State of
South Carolina, rendered between
the 18th day of December, 1860, and
the organization of the provisional
government of the said State, under
the Presidents proclamation of the
3Oth day Of June, 1855, unless the
written consent of the defendant be
entered Of record, and except in
cases where the plaintiff or his attor-
ney, upon, oath, supported by cor
roborative testimony, shall allege
that the defendant is disposing Of,
removing or about to remove his
property beyond the jurisdiction of
the court, with intent to defraud his
creditors: Provided That no such
Judgment, so rendered, within the
periods aforesaid, shall be O bar to
the commencement, in @ State court,
OF new suit upon the same cause of
action in any case in which, by law,
the defendant may remove or appeal
the same to court of the United
States.
The sale of real or personal pro-
perty, by foreclosure of mortgage. is
likewise suspended in the cases en-
braced- in paragraphs II and Ill of
said Order No. 10 as above amended,
except in cases where interest money
accruing subsequent to the 29th Of
April, 1865, shall not have been paid
before the day of sale, and all pre-
vious restrictions on such sales are
revoked. ft
Paragraph ~ Of the same order is
modified by substituting the 29th day
OF April, 1865, for the 10th day of
May, 1866.
Paragraph V of the snme order is
modified as follows:
All proceedings for the recovery of
money on contracts, whether under
seal or by parol, the consideration of
which was the purchase of slaves,
made subsequent to the 1st day OF
January, 1868, are suspended Judg-
ments or DEGREES entered for such
causes of action shall not be enforced.
Paragraph VII of the same order
IS modified as follows:
In all sales OF property under exc
cutlon or by order of any court,
there shall be, reserved out of the
property OF any defendant who has a
family dependent upon his or her
labor, dwelling house and appurte-
nances, and Gf in the country TWEEN
ty acres of land, or SO much thereof
that the whole shall not exceed in
value the sum of $4,000; and in a