Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12
AN IMPORTANT LAW.
Thirty Dollars of Mechanics
Wages Exempt from
Attachment.
What Property Is Exempt fro m
Execution.
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.

| OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.
| An act to amend the exemption laws and to COM
prise them al in one act.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That
| there shall be exempt from execution, at
tacbment or punishment, thirty dollars
| of the wages of mechanics or other labor
ing men, provided that the lien created
by services of garnishment, shall only
| affect that portion of a laborer's wages
that may be due at the time service is
made, and not any future wages.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the
following personal property shall be ex-
| empt from execution, seizure or attach
| ment in the hands of heads of families:
| two beds, bedsteads and necessary clothing
for each, and for each three children of
any one family, one additional bed,
bedstead and necessary bed clothing.
The value of such bedstead in no case to
exceed twenty-five dollars, two COWS and
calves, and if the family consist of six or
more persons, three COWS or COWS and
calves, one dozen knives and forks, one
QOLCu DldbCE1 Ah1L-nOASh OuC EtL
of table spoons, one set of teaspoons, one
bread tray, two pitchers, one waiter, one
coffee pot, one tea pot, one canister, one
cream jug, one dozen cups and saucers,
one dining table, and two table cloths,
one dozen chairs, one bureau not to exceed
forty dollars in value; one safe or press;
one wash-basin; one bowl and pitcher;
one washing kettle; two washing tubs;
one churD; one looking glass; one chop
ping axe; one spinning wheel; one loom
and gear; one pair cotton cards, one pair |
wool cards; one cooking stove and uten-
sis, or one set of ordinary cooking uten-
sis; one meal sieve and one wheat sieve;
one cradle; one bible and hymn-bOok and |
all books used in school; two horses or |
two mules or one horse and mule; or one
horse or mule and one yoke of oxen; one |
OK cart, yoke, ring, staple and log chain; |
one two or enc horse wagon, not to eX-
coed seventy five dollars in value, and |
harness; one mans saddle, one woman's |
saddle; two riding brides; twenty-five |
barrels of corn; twenty bushels of /
whsat; five hundred bundles of oats; five /
hundred bundles Of fodder; one stack of /
hay not to exceed twenty dollars in value;
and if the family consist OF less than six |
persons, one thousand pounds of pork,
slaughtered or on foot; or six hundred
pounds of bacon; or if the family consist
of more than six persons, then twelve
hundred pounds of PORK or nine hundred |
pounds of bacon; and all the poultry on |
hand and fowls to the value of twenty |
five dollars; homemade carpet manufac-
tured by the wife or any female member
of the family, for family use and
being so applied; six cords of wood, or
one hundred bushels of coal; and to heads
of families or any single female, who
uses 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
plOUghs, two hoes, one grubbing hoe,
one cutting knife, one harvest cradle, one
set of plough gears, one pi'chfOrk, ole
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 exempt one |
gun in the hands of every male citizen of
the age of eighteen years and upwards, |
and every female who is the head Of a
family. There shall also be exempt to
heads of families fifty pounds of picked |
cotton and twenty-five pounds of wool,
and a sufficient quantity of upper and
sole leather TO provide winter shoes for
the family; and to each mechanic who
is the head of family, fifty dollars worth
of lumber or material.
Sec. t. Be it further enacted, That 8
homestead in the possession of eachhead Of
a family and the improvements thereon 10
the value of, in all, one thousand dollars
shall be exempt from execution or attach
ment or sale under legal process in the
prescribed by Gan act to secure
a homestead to each head of q family in
this State and to give effect to section 2,
article II, of the constitution, and to re-
peal chapter 50 of the acts OF 1887 8,
and sections lila to 2, 1913 of the Code,
in regard to hOmesteads, chapter so,
passed June 81, 1870, and.approved June
29, 1870.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That all
Of said personal property and homestead
shall be exempt from seizure in criminal
As well as in civil cases, but not exempt |
from distress or sale for taxes; or on a
Judgment for failure or refusal to work |
IN public roads; or for fines and costs for
voting out of the civil district or ward in
which the voter lives; or for carrying
leadly or concealed weapons contrary to
aw; or for giving away Cr selling intoxi-
eating liquors on election days.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That |
when a debtor abscOnds or leaves his
.amily, the exempted property shall be
yet apart for the use OF the wife and
amily, and shall be exempt in the hands
If the wife and children and such prop
,rty, on the death of the owner, shall be
Exempt in the hands of the widow and
hildren, as prescribed in sections 2,268,
!, 29O of the Code.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That this
ct shall take effect from and after its
,asssge, the public welfare requiring it.
Passed Jan. 81, 1871.
W. ON. PERKINS,
peaker of the House of Representatives,
D. B. THOMAS,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved Feb. l, 1871.
D. w. G. SENTER,
Governor.
l certify that the above is true copy
# the original. now on file in nv Office |