The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-09
EXECUTIONS.

Sheriffs, coroners and constables are hereby d.
rected to suspend the sale OF all property upon
execution, process under any judgement or de-
cree of court of the so-caed Confederate States,
or of the State of North Carolina, rendered b.
tween the Goth day OF May, 1861, and the organi-
cation OF the provisional government of said
State, under the Presidents proclamation of the
29th day of April, 1865, or the State OF South Car
DINA, rendered between the 10 day of December,
1860 and the organization of the provisional gov
ernment of the said State, under the Presidents
proclamation the 30th day OfJune, 1865, unless
the written consent of tine defendant be entered
of record, and except in cases where the plaintiff
or his attorney upon oath, supported by corrob-
orative testimony, shall alege that the dcfen-
dant is disposing of, removing, or about to re-
move, his property beyond the jurisdiction of
the court, with intent to defraud his creditors
prouided that such Judgement SO rendered,
within the periods of aforesaid, shall be 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 ap-
peal the same to a court of the United States.
FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE.
The sale OF real or personal property, by fore
closure OF mortgage, is likewise suspended in the
cases embraced 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 be-
fore the day of SALE and all previous restrictions
on such sales are revoked. fv
Paragraph " OF the same order is modified by
substituting the 18th day of April, 1865, for the
10Th day of May. 1865.
Paragraph V of the same orderis modified as
follows:
SUITS ON NEGRO DEBTS.
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 LIST day of Janu-
airy, 1863, suspended. Judgments or DEGREES
entered for such causes Of action shall not be ell
forced. .- '' '-'
Paragraph VII of the same order is modified as
follows: '..'-''. t.i ..
HoMEsTEADs.
In all sales of property under execution or by
order of any court, there shall be reserved out of
the property of any defendant who has family
dependent upon his or her labor, dwelling house
and appurtenances, and (if in the country twenty
acres of land, or so much thereof that the whole
shall not exceed in value the sum OF two thousand
dollars and in a town or city, the immediate lot
upon which such dwelling house is situated; and
necessary articles Of furniture, apparel, subsist-
ence and implements OF husbandry, trade, or
other employment, to the value Of five hundred
dollars. The homestead exemption shall inurc
only to the, benefit of families. In other cases
the exemption shall extend only to clothing and
implements of trade or employment usually fol-
lowed by the defendant, of the value of two hun
bred dollars. The exemptions hereby made shall
not be waived or defeated by the act of any de-
PENDANT, who has family dependent upon him or
her for support, and the exempted property shall
be ascertained and defined by the sheriff or other
officer enforcing the execution, who shall call to
his aid two impartial citizents to make the neccs-
sary appraisement, and shall make report thereof
to the court.
ARREST FOR FRAUDULENT DEBTS.
Paragraph is hereby modified so as to au-
thorize arrest in civil actions eontrdctu only in
cases where the demand is past due, and the de-
PENDANT has been guilty of fraud in contracting
the debt sued for, or has removed or disposed of
his property, is about to do SO, with intent to
defraud his creditors, or is about to leave the
State with such intent. H -. =-..
...-s. EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES.
Paragraph XIV is amended by adding thereto ::
All proceedings in any court of North Carolina,
or of South Carolina, recognizing or sanctionng
| the investment of the funds of minor heirs, or of
females or of insane persons, in the securities of
the late rebel government, the securities of
the Suites of North-Carolina or South Carolina,
created for the purpose of carrying on war
against the government of the United States, will
be suspended until the question of the validity of
such Investments shall have been determined by
the courts of the United States, or by national
legislation. And nothing in the provisions of
this order, or of the order No. 10 above cited,
shall be held ito bar or hinder the recovery, by
suit, of the estate of any minor heir, female, or
insane person, (cestuiQaie trust whether in the
hands of executors, administrators, trustees,
guardians, masters cferkssof equity courts, and
other fduciary agents, or invested BY them In
their fdueiary character. 4siss y,Io9-aItx9HL
a9t1bA 90 DIsTILLERIEs.5 - =" aiif'
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