Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-04-06
The Exemption Law.

AN AOI tO eNlCuu ttio CASiup ptip't laws
 of the State and for other purposes |: ;
 Sec. lst. Be t enacted ly the General Assembly qf Me &atc of Arkaasas, That the following property when owned by n married man. widow, or widower, having a family of children, or any person having the care or maintainancc ofany minor child or children, shall be exempt from sale un- der execution or seizure by attachment, except when the defendant k a non-resi- dent of the State, or is aboat to remove himself or his effects out of tue State.--- First, two horses or mules. or one of each, or one yoke of oxen, and one horse or mule, four blows, and four hoes, one wagon, two axes, two sets of gear, two milch COWS and calves, two spinning wheels and two pair of cards, one loom and appa- ratus, all spun thread yarn and cloth man uf;;etured for family use, twenty pounds of hemp, fax or cotton, for each member of the family, one sewing machine, ten sheep and tie wool grown on them, ten stock hogs, all the wearing apparel of tho fam- ly, two beds, and one additional bed for every two children, with the usual bedding and furniture, one bureau or wardrobe, and one looking glass aud table for each room used by the family, and such other articles of curtains, pictures, and bowls, kept for family use, one dining table, one safe or cupboard, table furniture, sufficient for the comfort and convenience of the family, one dozen chairs, all necessary kitchen furniture and cooking utensils, if ty bushels of corn for each mule, horse or yoke of oxen, ten bushels of corn, or five bushels of wheat, or one barrel of flour, for each member of the f;unily, one hun dred and fifty pounds of bacon or two hun dred pounds of pork, or hogs sufficient to make that amount of pork, for each mem Der of the family and corn to fatten them the family library and any books that may be added to the same, one thousand pounds of hay or fodder for two horses, or fifteen hundred pounds for one horse or mule, an( one yoke of oxen, and such necessary hay fodder or other food, as may be on hand tc feed milch cows and calves, and all groce ries on hand necessary for family use fo one year.
 See 2d. All persons having familie and not engaged in farming, shall be en titled to all the benefits of exemptions pro yided for in one section of this acs, tn, quantities to be determined by the. rati provided in said section
 Sec Sd. Bc t .fiWther enacted, Ina any person, male or female, living alone und engaged in farming without family shall hold exempt from sale under execu tion, two horses, or two mules, or one o each, and one yoke of oxen, one wagon two blows, and plow gear, two milch COW and calves, ten stock hogs, two hoes, an two axes, and five head of sheep and tn wool produced by them, all family cloth ing. spun thread and cloth on hand fo family use, and twenty five pounds of flax hemp or cotton, and if female, thre beds, and if male, two beds, and sucl other articles of comfort and necessity, an provisions, as are exempted in sectio one, of this act, Procided, That such pei son shall held exempt from sale twenty five bushels of corn, three barrels of foul or fifteen bushels of wheat, three hundre pounds of bacon, or four hundred and fl ty pounds of pork, or hogs sufficient make that amount of pork, and corn an fodder, or hay, for horses, mules or oxcI and milch cows, also to fatten hogs, as
 provided in section one of this act.
 Sec. 4th Be it .(,rther enacted, Tn, every person engaged in business on h own account, other than Farming which r' quires tf use of horse, shall hold on horse or mule, exempt from seizure or sal and this section shall be construed to il A clude lawyers, physicians, constables, she ifs and their deputies, tanners, and preacl CTS of the gospel.
 Sec. 9th. Be it tarfter eadctea, Tn sections 23, 24, and the last provision section 2s, of chapter GS, iGould's Digei of the statutes of Arkansas, and all oth laws and parts of laws contrary to this a'