The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-28

ORDER OF GENERAL CANDY TURNING
THE STATE OVER TO THE CIVIL AUTHORI-
TIEs-IMPoRTANT DETA General
Candy on yesterday issued General Orders
No. 9, turning over the State of Virginia
to the civil authorities. After reciting the
act whereby the State was readmitted into
the Union, he gives the following instruc-
tions for the information and guidance of
all officers or other persons invested with
or exercising authority under and by virtue
of the law Of March 2, 1867, to provide for
the " more efficient government Of the rebel
States" and the several laws supplement
tary thereto or amendatory thereof =.
!. All military commissioners will at
once cease to exercise any and all authority
under the above-cited laws, except 80 far
as may be necessary to close up the un-
finished business of their Offices, and they
will at once transmit to these headquarters
all books and records that relate to their
duties as military commissioners. -...-
2. All citizens who may be held by mill
tary authority for trial, either in custody
or upon bail, for acts in violation of the
above cited laws, will be released from GUS
tody or discharged Of their bail bonds and
the military prosecution dismissed.
3. All citizens held by military authority
for trial for crimes or offences cognizable
under the laws of the provisional govern
ment of the State of Virginia will be
turned over to the custody of the proper
civil authorities Of the county or corpora
tion in which the crime or offence was COM
mitted, and oil bonds, recognizances, or
other security taken for the appearance OF
persons charged with crimes or offences, or
| for the appearance OF witnesses, will be
turned over in like manner to the proper
4. The Judge Advocate of the district
will furnish the Attorney General Tor such
action as may be necessary and proper
| history Of each Of the cases now undergoing
investigation, together with the depositions
or other evidence in relation thereto. In
like manner, for the like purpose, ell ath-
dayits, evidence, or other information in
relation to persons accused Of crime who
have escaped from confinement or have
eyaded arrest, will be transferred to the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Al gi ..ToTE - 7f.2
S. Ali prisoners (citizens) who, when the
aforecited law of March 2, 1867, becomes
imperative by reason of the conditions and
Limitations of the reconstruction laws, may
be in confinement or custody by virtue OF
the final judgment and sentence Of 9 mill
tary commission or other military tribunal,
viii be continued in said custody until en-
T titled to discharge by expiration of SEN
tence or the case is otherwise disposed OF by
proper authority. Upon q writ of ho6eas
corpus, or any other process Issuing from
q court of the United States in the case OF
any prisoner 80. held, the writ will be
promptly responded to, and the officer IN
making his return to the writ will set forth
all the material q; facts of the case.
If the writ be issued from % 6 State
court the officer having the custody OF any
such prisoner viii make q respectful return
20 the writ, setting forth the 3act that the
InMsousr ID held BY virtue d the dnal
3udemens and ssntenss Of . court Of ccpps'
tsnf jurisdiction, held under the su,
thority !. Of the laxB, Of the United
EStates, and that the jurisdietion !!
fsxelusiYely ID the courts OF the United
States. The division between United States
and State Jurisdictions rs not always dis,
tinctly marked, but officers will be g1ided
in their action by the principles laid down
| by the Supreme Court Of the United statei
IN. tie 6ase Of Ableman us. Booth; q
Howard ps606sI saTi ~ i2a 2i@ ~ :, !
Is. At all 1festsss sarsenais, lighthouses
custom houses, cemeteries, end other puhiit
lssssblishments whether held by origins
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