The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-07
OFFICIAL.


necessary articles of furniture apparel, subsist-
ence and implements of husbandry, trade, or
other employment to the 4yalue 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
dred 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 neces-
sary appraisement, and shall make report thereof
to the court.
81 ARREST FOR FRAUDULENT DEBTS.
Paragraph X is hereby modified so as to au-
thorize arrest in civil actions cotrdctu 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, or is about to do SO, with intent TO
defraud his creditors, or is about to leave the
State with such intent.
EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES.
Paragraph XIV is amended by adding thereto
All proceedings in any court of North Carolina
or of South Carolina, recognizing or sanctioning
the investment of the funds oil minor heirs, or of
females of insane PERSONS in the securities of
the late rebel government, or the securities OF
the States of NOrth-C Carolina or South Carolina,
created for the purpose OF carrying on war
against the government OF the united States will
be sus pended until the question OF the validity of
such investments shall lave been determined by
the courts of the United States, or by national
And t hothng IN M the OF
shall be held to bar or hinder the recovery, by
suit of the estate of any MINOR heir, female, or
insane person, (cest"iqas trast) whether in the
hands OF executors, administr ators, trustees,
guardians, masters clerks OF equity courts, and
other ti,iuciary agents, or invested by them in
their hduciary character.
DIsTILLERIEs.
H. General Orders No %, of Nay 20, 1867, is
revoked; and and after the first day of Janu-
arv 1868 the distillaiion of spirituous liquors M
this Military District will be subject to such
strictions only as are imposed by tine laws OF the
United States and OF the States OF North and
South Carolina, respectively
BATHROOMS.
Ill Paragraphs VI and VII of General Orders
No 81, dated May 80, 1867, revoked, and the
power TO grant licenses for the sale OF sprituors
or Intoxicating liquors is reunited 10 the proper
local authorities, to take effect on and after the
first day OF january, 1868, aud to be subject to
the following conditions:
/. The municipal authorities granting the IL
censc shall be answcrable that the parties TO
whom such licenses are granted, together with
their suretes, shall be responsible persons, and
of good moral stal.ding i'll the community, and
that both principal and suretleS shall be able to
qualify individually in double the amount of the
bond required, and that the bond shall be Il lien
upon the personal property OF both principal and
Surciics, and upon proof Of default shall warrant
the summary seizure and sale OF so much of the
property ol either or both may be necessary to
satisfy the forfeiture or fine and costs.
=. Drunkenness and diSOrderly conduct on the
premises shall work the forfeiture OF the license
and OF the penalty OF the bond.
3. The owner or keeper of any bar-room
loon other Place at which Intoxicating liquors
are sold, and all other persons interested or con-
nected Herewith, shall be regarded lis principals
in any action of damages growing out OF any
slut, riot, affray or other disorder occurring on
! the premises, or directly traccable thereto:
4 horn nft,,
which Intoxicating liquors are sold, shall be
closed on the day or days OF any general or local
| election, and ior the twelve hours next proceed
| ing the opening and next succeeding the closing
oi the polls AZ such election: and the sherfS of
| counties and districts and the chief of police of
! cities and towns, shall have power to direct the
| closing of bar-rOums and other places for the
sale of intoxicating liquors whenever 1t may be
necessary in their Judgment to preserve order and
quiet
5. The proceeds of all licenses, forfeitures and
| fines, under the local regulations or under the
| provisions of military orders, will be devoted
to the support OF the poor, and lis soon as reali-
zed will bc turned over to the commissioners or
| oycrsccrs ct the poor of the district county,
! city or town iii which they accrued, and the COM
| misSoncrs or overseer will at the end Of each
month report To the Provost Marshal q eneral of
the District the amount received by them during
/ the month, specifying the names of the parties
| from whom it WAS received.
| The penalties imposed by this order by
(lIC local police regulations may be enforced i'll
any civil or military court, ana upon cOnVlctlOn
! the court may award to the iniOrmcr sum not
exceeding fifty per cent OF the forfeiture or fine.
And il Is made the duty OF all shtritts, cOnsta-
bics and coroncrS of counties and districts, and
| the police of cities and towns, to be v%lant in
! the enforcement of the police regulations aud
! the provisions of this order in relation to the
sale Of Intoxicating liquors.
The provisions OF this paragraph will be held
/ to apply to such licenses granted under General
Orders No 81, to innkeepers, us remain uuexpr-
| cd after the lst of January, 1858.
DISTRICT COURTS.
" To promote the speedy trial of prisoners
confined for minor offences, and diminish the
cost of their maintenance, all committing mags-
| tratcs will on the 18th and last days of each
month, report to the judge of their county or
district court all commitments made by them
during the proceeding half month, specifying the
date of commitments, the names of the prisoners
I and the offences for which they were committed,
to the end that the judges may whenever in their
opinion the number of prisoners or other consid-
erations OF public interest call for it, hold special
terms of their courts for the purpose of dispos-
ing of such cases. The additional expense of
holding such special terms will be charge upon
the State Treasury, and the accounts therefor
will be audited and paid as accounts of siminr
character are now audited and paid, and if the
salaries paid the judges should be made
quate in view of the additional labor performed
by them, reasonable addition upon the proper
representations through the Governor OF the
State, will be allowed.
V. The pilotage regulations now existing in
the States of North and South Carolina are SO far
modified that on and after the first day of March,
1868, all passenger steam vessels, regulated by
the laws OF the United States. and carrying pi-
lot commissioned by United States Commission
ers, shall be exempt from the compulsory pay
ment of pilotage. ...-.
NORTH-CAROLINA POLL TAX.
VI So much of the act of the General Assem-
off hp State IF North carolina entitled GO a
act to raise monies,' ratified on the 26th day of
February, 1867 makes it 6 the duty of all per
sons and corporations to list and pay the (polD
tax of such persons liable to the same, as are in
their employment, on the first day of April of
each year, rs laborers,' is rescinded, and hereaf
ter all individual taxes will be assessed directly
upon and collected directly from the individuals
from whom they are due /; provided, that the pro-
visions of this order shall not apply to the taxes
levied for the current year, except that double
poll tax shall not be enforced if the original tax
be paidon or before the LIST day of March, eigh-
teen hundred and sixtyeght.
By command of
DIT Ho;.>r L ID q