Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-02-11

ty or any part thereof.
2. For service rendered by a laboring
person or a mechanic.
3. For liabilities incurred by any public
officer, or officer Of a court, or any fduciary,
Or any attorney at law, for money collected.
4. For a lawful claim for any taxes, lev
les, Or assessments, accruing after the 1st
day of June, 1866.
s.. Forsrent hereafter accruing.
6 For the legal or taxable fees of any
public officer or officer of a court hereafter
accruing.
Sec. 9. The foregoing section shall not be
construed as suIjecting the property hereby
exempted, Or any portion thereof, to any lien
by reason of.any execution levied on proper
ty which has been subsequently restored to
the defendant. or judgment rendered, or
dockcted, on and after the 18th day of April,
1861, and before the End day of March,
1867, for any debt contracted previous to
the 18th day Of April, 1865, except debts of
the character mentioned in either of the
above six exceptions.
SEC. 3. Nothing contained in this article
shall be constructed to interfere with the
sale of the property aforesaid, or any portion
thereof. by virtue Of any mortgage, deed of
trust, pledge, Or other security thereon.
SEC. The General Assembly is hereby
prohibited from passing any law stayingsthe
collection ofdebts commonly known as "stay
laws; and any such law now existing is
hereby repealed. But this section shall not
be constructed as prohibiting any legislation
which the General Assembly may deem
necessary to fully carry out the provisions
of this article
SEC. 5. The General Assembly shall at
it's first session under this Constitution,
prescribe in what manner and on what con-
ditions the said householder CT head of a
family shall thereafter set apart and hold for
himself and family a homestead out Of any
property hereby exempt ; and may, in its
discretion. determine in what manner and
on what conditions he may thereafter hold,
for the benefit Of himself and family, such
personal property as he may have, and
coming within the exemption hereby made.
| But this section shall not be construed as
authorizing the General Assembly to defeat
or impair the benefits intended to be confer
red by the provisions Of this article.
sSEc, 6, An act Of the General Assembly
entitled g an act to exempt the homesteads
Of families from forced Sales" passed April
30, 1867, is hereby repealed.
CHURCH PROPERTY
The rights of ecclesiastical bodies in and
to church property conveyed to them by reg
ular deed Of conveyance shall not be affected
by the late civil war. nor by any antecedent
or subsequent event, nor by any act Of the
Legislature purporting to govern the same,
but all such property shall pass to and be
held by the parties set forth in the original
deeds Of conveyance. OF the legal assignees
of such original parties holding through OF
By conveyance (; and any act or acts of the
Legislature in opposition thereto are null
and void.
INHERITANCE OF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF
SLAVES.
The children Of parents one or both Of
whom were slaves at and during the period
Of cohabitation, and who were recognized by
the father as his children, and whose moth
err was recognized by such father as his wife.
and was cohabitated with as such, shall be
as capable Of. iaheriting any estate whereof
such father may have died seized or possess
ed as though they had been born in lawful
wedlock. ~