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OFFICIAL.
Headauarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, s. c., December 81, 1857,

Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, S. c., December 81, 1857, J
General Orders No. 1e4.l
I. PARAGRAPH ii OF GENERAL ORDERS NO.
10, from the Headquarters of tho Second Military
District dated April H. 1867 is modified as follows:
judgments or DEGREES for the payment OF money
on causes ofacton arising In North Carolina between
the 20th day of May 1861, and the goth day OF April
1855 and in South Carolina between the 18th day OF
December, 1850. and the goth day Of April, 1885,
shall not be enforced, by execution, against the
person or properly Of the defendant. Proceedings
for such causes of action now pending shan be
stayed aud no suit process ahal be instituted or
commenced on such causes Of action until after the
civil government of the respective States shall be es
tablished In accordance to the laws of the United
States
Paragraph III Of the same order is modified as
follows:
sherias, coronors, and constables, are hereby d.
rected to suspend the sale Of Ell property upon exc
cuon, or process under any judgement or deoree OF
court of the 40 called Confederate States. of the
State OF North Carolina rendered between the goth
day Of May, 1861, and the organization Of the provi
onal government of said State under the Presidents
proclamation Of the 2sth DAY td April 1885, or OF the
State of South Carolina, rendered between the 18Th
sy of December, 1860, and the organization OF the
provisional of the said State. under the
Presidents proclamation of The S0th day Of June.
1885, unless thu written consent Of the defendant be
entered of record, and except in cases where the
plaintiff, or bis attorney, upon oath supported oy
corroborative testimony shall alege that the defen
dant is disposing Of removing, or about to remove
his property beyond the jurisdiction OF court with
intent to Dr. ud his creditors Provided, thatno such
Judgment, % rendered. within the periods aforesaid
shall be a bar to the commencement, in State
court of new suit upon the same CAUSE Of action In
any case In which, by law, tho defendant may remove
or appeal the same to court of the United States
The sale Of real personal property. oy foreclos
ure of mortgage Is likewise suspended In the cases
embraced in Paragraphs II and III Of said Order No.
90 as above amended, e1cep In cases where interest
money accruing subsequent 10 the 2sth day of April
1865 sha not have been pail before the day Of sale
and all previous restrictions on such sales are re-
voked
Paragraph " Of the sarle order is modified by
substituting the 29th day of April 1885, for the 10th
day Of May, 1865.
Paragraph v Of the same order is modified as
follows:
All proceedings for the recovery Of money on con-
tracts whether under seal or by paro the conside-
ration of which was the purchase of slaves. made
subsequent to the first day If January, IS0S are sus-
pended. Judgments or d;crees entered Tor such
causes of action shall not b. enforced.
Paragraph VII of the same order Is modified as
follows:
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 depend
ent upon his or her labor, dwelling house and ap
purtenances and f in the country twenty acres Of
land or 80 much thereof that the whole shall not ex
ceed In value the SUD of two thousand dollars; and
in town or city, the immediate lot upon which such
dwelling house is situated; and necessary articles OF
urniture, apparel, subsistence and implements OF
husbandry, trade or other employment, to the value
of Ave hundred dollars. The homestead exemption
shall inure only TO the ber eft of families In other
cases. the exemption shall extend only to clothing
and implements of trade or employment usually
followed by the defendant Of the value cft two hun
dred dollars The exemptions hereby made shall
not be waived or defeated by the act Of any dcfen-
dant who has family dependent upon him or her for