Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-02-08
important Order.

Important Order.
General Cauby yesterday issued the follow
ing Order which explains itself:
HEAD'oRs 2D MILITARY DISTRICT, !
Charleston, S. G., January 27, 1868 {
G@cral Orders No. Ill
I{ 1t having been represented that, owing
to certain inCormalitics and non. compliance
witHcertain regulations prescribed by the laws
OF tho State and by military orders for draw
Inquiries in South Carolina, such drawings
have in some cases been rendered irregular
andSnvalid, it is ordered:
Il That jurics heretofore drawn, or which,
previous to the regular Spring terms Of the
CIRCUIT Courts now approaching may be drawn
foEa Circuit or District Court, in any judicial
DisFict of South C,rolina, whether the pro-
visigns Of General Orders No. 30, or No. 80,
orSNo. 100, Of tile year 1867, from these
Headquarters, we're regarded in the prcpara-
tlo1sof the list from which any drawing was
madc or may be made, and whether such
driatNlng was, or may be, at a regular tcrm Of
anyicourt, or at an extra court, or by the
clerk of court and the sheriff of District
in the presence Of a magistrate, and VIII ther
such extra court or drawing by the officers of
anycourt was ordered by the Governor of the
Statb, any Judge, Circuit Court or Court of
Appeals, arc hereby legalizod; aud the right
of,chalcnge as given by tho said General Or
I'deis,S 80, and the necessary drawing of
tales, are hereby preserved as heretofore.
g. At thanc Spring terms of the Circuit
aud District Courts respectively, and when
soever thereafter new jury lists are to be made
for any District, jury lists shall be prepared
for the list Of all male citizens therein who
shall have paid taxes within the twelve months
next preceding; and challenges shall be al
10 we'd in conformity with General Orders No.
81
.. Upon tho return Of the vcnires, the pre-
81 ling judge Of the court shall be authorized,
at thc empanncling Of jures so drawn, to set
aside any juror for personal unftncss by rea-
son OF intellectual or moral disquaifcations
provided, that race, color or former condition
of servitudc shall not of itself be ground of
exclusion.
Ii. The Courts of Common Pleas and Gen
eral Sessions in South Carolina are hereby in
vested with concurrent jurisdiction with the
District Courts Of all cases and matters of
which the District Courts have jurisdiction
under the Constitution and laws of the State
ILL., The provisions of the Act of General
Assembly Of the State of South Carolina, en-
titled {" An Act to amend the law in relation
to tenants" approved December 10Th, 1866,
shall be construed to extend and apply to all
cases of tenancics, whether at will or for
term limited by the act Of the parties or by
operation of law, and whether such tcnancics
were created by parol or by written leases or
contracts of letting, wherever rent shall be
dus aud in arrears, or wherever the tenant
shall hold over after the cessation of his right
Of occupancy Whenevcrapplicatio is made
to magistrate to remove n tenant for any
oa,iso within the intent Of said Aot as hcrcby
construed, it shall be tho duty of such magis-
tratc and Of the sheriff or constable to proceed
under the Act herein recitcd, and t, charge
no greater feos than those therein prescribed
Nv. In no criminal case where there is ap.
peal from any other court to the Court of Ap
peals, shall it be necessary for the accused to
appear in person before tho Court of Appeals,
but in u case Of capital felony, tho Court of
Appeals, at it's discretion with regard to OK
pedicncy as to the ti",c and place of sentence,
may order aprisoncr to be brought before IL.
by command of Drevet Mnjor-G General Ed
II. s. Candy.
LOUIS V. CAZTARC,
| Aid-do- Camp, Acting a.. A.sG.
4 HARD TINES rN5NEw YoRK. Tho New
York correspondent of the "Philadolthia
Ledger" writes:
"Tho past week has been a hard one in
mercantile circles. Soyen failures are ropor,
ted. ! Some of these are called Suspensions
only md ono or twoof the parties are said
to be compromising with creditors The ag
4 gregSte failures since the1st Of January arc
4 said % be twonty- -fye, with liabilities ampunt
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