Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-02-23
An Important Law.
What Property is Exempt from
Execution.

ACuuCooCC, 1udt tHtIC 6IIdif Uc cSs
empt from execution, attachment,
or garnishment, thirty dollars of
the wages of mechanics or other
laboring men, provided that the
iIien created by services of gar
nishment, shall only affect that
portion of laborer's wages that
may be due at the time service is
lmade, and not any future wages.
/ Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
That the following personal prop
lerty shall be exempt from execu.
ton, seizure or attachment in the
Hands of heads Of families; two
beds, bedsteads and necessary
clotbing for each, and far each
three children of any one family
one additional bed, bedstead and
necessary clothing. The value
lof such bedstead in no case to eX-
coed twenty-five dollars, two cows
and calves, and if the family con-
sist of six or more persons, three
cows or cows and calves, one doz-
en- knives and forks, one dozen
plates, half-dozen dishes, one set
of table spoons, one of tea spoons,
one bread tray, two pitchers, one
waiter, one coffee pot, one teapot,
one canister, one cream jug, one
dozen cups and saucers, one din
ing table, and two table clothes:
one dozen chairs, one bureau
not to exceed forty dollars in val
ue, one safe or press, one wash
basin, one bowl and pitcher, one
washing kettle, two wash-tubs, one
churn, one looking-glass, one chop
ping axe, one spinning wheel, one
loom and gear, one pair of cotton
cards, one pair of wool cards, one
cooking stove and utensils, one
meal seive and one wheat seive,
one cradle, one bible, one hymn
book and all books used in school,
two horses or two mules or one
horse and one mule, or one horse
or mule and one yoke of oxen,
one OK cart, yoke, ring, staples and
log chain, one two or one horse
wagon, not to exceed seventy-fve
dollars in value, and harness, one
mans saddle, one woman's saddle,
two riding brides, twenty-five
barrels of corn, twenty bushels of
wheat, five hundred bundles of
oats, FIVE hundred bundles of fod.
der, one stack of hay not to ex-
coed twenty dollars in value, and
IF the family consists of less than
six persons, one thousand pounds
of pork, slaughtered or on foot, or
six hundred pounds of bacon, or
il the family consists of more than
six persons, then twelve hundred
pounds of pork or nine hundred
pounds Of bacon, and all the poul-
try on hand and fowls to the val
ue of twenty-five. dollars, a home
made carpet manufactured by the
wife or any female member of the
family, for family use and b ing
so applied, six cords of wood or
one hundred bushels of coal, and
TO heads of families or any single
female, who use the same for a
livelihood, one sewing machine.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted,
That if the head of the family be
engaged in agriculture, there shall
be further exempt in his hands
the following property: Two
plows, two hoes, one grubbing hoe,
one cutting knife, one harvest era,
die, one set Of pillow gears, one
pitch fork, one rake, three iron
wedges, five head of sheep and
ten head of stock hogs. There
shall also be exempt in the hands
of each mechanic in the State,
who is engaged in the pursuit Of
his trade or occupation, one set of
mechanics tools, such as are usual
and necessary to the pursuit of
his trade. There shall also be ex-
empt one gun in the hands of ev-
cry male citizen of the age of
eighteen years and upwards, and
every female who is the head of
a family. There also shall be ex.
empt to heads of families fifty
pounds OF picked cotton and TWEEN
ty-five pounds of wool, and suf-
icient quantity of upper and sole
leather to provide winter shoes for i
the family, and to each mechanic !
who is the head of family, fifty
dollars worth of lumber or mate
rial. :
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted,
that a homestead in the possess
on of each head of family and
he improvements thereon to the
value of, iD all, one thousand dol
ars, shall be exempt from execu-
ion, attachment or sale under \
egal process in the manner pre-
cribed by 'An act to secure '
to each head Of fam
ly in this State and to give effect u u
o section 2, article IL, of the con- h