Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-01-15
An ACa .
ROSE COTTAGE,

To INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY
EXEMPT FROM LEVY AND SALE.
|. Be il enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That the following property, in
addition to that now exempted by Law, to
wit: to each family the dwelling housc, and
appurtenant thereto, together with fifty acres
of Land, and also one horse, and twenty-five
dollars worth Of provisions be and the same
are hereby exempted from levy and sale, un-
der ficr f;.cias and assignment under mcSne
or final process: Proridcd. that the said ex-
emption shall not include, or extend to any
property situate within the limits of any city
or town corporate Of this State. And prD-
rided further, that the value of the said real
estate shall not exceed the sum of Ave hun
dred dollars.
II. That in all cases, where the landed pro-
perry of The debtor shall exceed fifty acres,
three Commissioners shall be appointed by
the Clerk of the Court, upon TIE application
of either the plaintiff or defendant in the
execution, whose duiyit shall be TO lay off
to the debtor fifty acres of land, including
the homestead, which shall always be done
most favoraby and beneticially for the fami-
lily for whose benefit the provision is made !;
the remainder of whose land may be liable
as in other cases.
III. And if the said fifty acres including
the Homestead, so laid nff, shall exceed in
value, by the estimate of said Commission
crs, or minority of them, the sum of five
hundred dollars; then, and in oil snch cases,
the said Commissioners shall proceed TO lay
off such quantity less than fifty acres, rs
herein before provided, the yaluc of which
shall not exceed the said SUN of five hundred
dollars, the remainder of which may be sold
as in other cases.
w. That the said Commissioners shall
seals, of their proceedings in the premises,
together with plat or some other concise
description of the lands laid off by them, to
the Clerk of the Court, and shall be entitled
to receive compensation for their services,
not eycecdingon one dollar each, per day, to be
paid by the defendant; and the Clerk Of the
Court shall keep suitable book, in which
the appointment Of the Commissioners, TO-
gether with their return, and all other pro-
cecdings in the case shall be recorded, for
which services, the said Clerk, be entitled to
receive in like manner, from the defendant,
the sum of three dollars.
V. That this act shall take effect, from and
after the first day of March next, in relation
TO all debts thereafter contracted.
Am Act
To PROVIDE BY Law FOR THE CONVERSATION
OF PHYSICIANS, FOR Posi- MoRTEM ExAMI-
NATIONS.
Be il eraacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives. now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority Of
the same, That the following compensation
shall hereafter be allowedto any physician
who may be called in by the acting coroner
to make n posi- mortem examination, TO wit:
Where death has resulted from external vio-
lencc, and where no dissection is required,
the sum of ten dollars; where dissection is
is necessary, and no intcrment has taken
place, twenty dollars; for the same, after one
or more days interment, thirty dollars; for
the same, when any chemical analysis is re-