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An Act to amend the 1st section of an act. 1859 133 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0745 and id is 1 raw text is: CHANGES IN CODE, ETO. keeper and head of a family, there shall be exempt from distress or levy the following articles, or so much or so many thereof as the party may have: One cow, one bed- stead (with a bed and necessary bedding for the same), six chairs, one table, six knives, six forks, six plates, two dishes, two basins, one pot, one oven, six pieces of wood or earthenware, one loom and its appurtenances, one spin- ning wheel, one pair of cards, one axe, one hoe, five bar- rels of corn, five bushels of' wheat, or one barrel of flour, two hundred pounds of bacon or pork, and five dollars in value of forage or hay, and one cooking stove, and utensils for cooking therewith ; and in case of a mechanic, the In case of a me tools and utensils of his trade, however, not to exceedchanic. twenty-five dollars in value, a sewing machine: and pro- vided, that no family portrait or engraving shall be subject to distress or levy. 2. Be it further enacted, that in addition to the exemp-Horso, muloor yoke of oxen tions in the first section of this act, in favor of same per-exempt. sons, there shall be exempted from levy or distress, upon contracts hereafter made, one bedstead, with a bed and necessary bedding for the same, for every three members of the family of the husband or parent, mentioned in the preceding section, one horse, or mule, or yoke of oxen, plow, and necessary gearing, except for taxes : provided, that the provisions of this act shall not extend to distress made for taxes and county and parish levies: provided, Value of horse, that the value of the horse, mule or yoke of oxen shall not 'c. exceed one hundred dollars: and provided, that the pro- Whenacttotake visions of this act shall not take effect until the first ofstret' July eighteen hundred and sixty. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Commencement CHAP. 34.-An ACT to amend the 1st section of an act passed April 1, 1858, entitled an act to amend the 30th section of chapter 96 of the Code, so as more effectually to prevent Dealing with Slaves, and repealing the 2d section of the said act of April 1, 1858. Passed Mlarch 13, 1860. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the first Act of 1858 section of an act passed April the first, eighteen hundred amended.

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