Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1881-08-18
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The following personal property is
exempt from execution, seizure or
attachment, in the hands of heads
of families: Two beds, beadsteads
and necessary clothing for each,
and for each three children of any
one family, one additional bed, bed
stead and necessary clothing, the
value ofSuch bedsteads in no case to
exceed twenty-five dollars, two COWS
and calves, and il the family con-
sists of six OF more persons, three
cows or COWS ana calves, dozen
knives and forks, one dozen plates,
half dozen dishes, one SET of table
spoons, one set of tea spoons, one
bread tray, two pitchers, u waiter,
one coffee pot, one teapot, IL CAMS
ter, one cream jug, one dozen cups
and saucers, one dining table and
two table clothes, one dozen chairs,
one bureau, not to exceed forty dol
lars in value, one safe or press, one
wash-basin, II bowl and pitcher,
one washing kettle, two washing
tubs, one churn, one looking glass,
one chopping axe, n spinning
wheel, one loom and gear, II pair
cotton cards, one pair wool cards,
one cooking stove and utensils, or
one set of ordinary cooking utensils,
one meal seive and one wheat seive,
one cradle, one bible and hymn book,
ard all books used in school, two
horses or two mules or One horse
and mule, or one horse or mule,
and n yoke of oxen, II OK cart,
yoke, ring, staple and log chain, one
two Or one horse wagon, not to eX-
coed s~eventy-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 bun
| dies Of floats, five hundred bundles of
fodder, II stack of hay, not to *
ceed twenty dollars in value, and if
the family consists of less than six
persons, one thousand pounds of
pork, slaughtered OF on foot, or six
hundred pounds of bacon, or if 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 value
of twenty-five dollars, a homestead
carpet, manufactured by the wife or
any finale member of the family,
for family use and being so applied,
six cords of wood or one hundred
bushels Of coal, one hundred gallons
of sorghum molasses, n hundred
pounds of flour, fifty pounds of salt,
one hundred pounds of beef or
mutton, one pound of black pepper,
one pound Of spice, one pound OF
ginger, twenty pounds of coffee, fiji
ty pounds of sugar, three bushels OF
meal. one oushel OF dried beans, one
bushel of dried peas, fifty bushels of
Irish potatoes, ifty bushels of sweet
potatoes provided they be kept for
family use and not for sale or mer-
chandise), ten bushels of tuTnipS,
one pair of andirons, one clock, all
the canned fruit put up for family
use, not to exceed twenty dollars in
value, twenty bushels of peanuts,
three strings of red pepper, two
gourds, two punger gourds, a car
pet in actual use by the family, not
exceed ng in value twenty-five dol
lars. fifty pounds of picked cotton
two hundre bushels of cotton seed,
twenty five pounds of wool, u
sufficient quantity of upper and sole
leather to provide winter shoes for
the family, fifty head of sheep and
the fleece that may be shorn from
the same, twenty-five stands of
bees and the product of the same,
and to heads of families, or any sim
gle female who uses the same for a
livelihood, one sewing machine
If the head OF the family be en-
gagged in agriculture, there is fur
thar exempt in his hands the fol-
lowis:s property: Two plows, two
hoes, one grubbiug hoe, II cutting
knife, one harvest cradle, n set of
pillow gears, one pitch-fork, one
rake, three iron wedges, five
head of sheep and ten head Of
STOCK hogs.
There is also exempt, in the
hands of each mechanic in the
State, who is engaged in the pur-
suit of his trade or occupation, one
set of mechanics tools, such as are
usual and necessary to the pursuit
of his trade, one gun in the hands
of every male citizen of the age Of
eighteen years and upward and ev-
cry female who is the head of a