Chap. 54.—An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 3650 in chapter 178 of the
Code of Virginia of 1887, in regard to exemptions.

Approved December 23, 1901.

Re it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thinty -six hundred and fifty in.chapter one hundred and seventy-eight
of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and cighty-seven, as amended
by an act approved February twenty-cighth, eighteen hundred and ninety,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3650. The articles which a householder, in addition to the foregoing
exemption, may hold exempt from levy or distress.—In addition to the
estate, not exceeding in value two thousand dollars, which every house-
holder residing in this State shall be entitled to hold exempt, as provided
in the preeeding sections of this chapter, he shall also be entitled to hold
exempt from levy or distress the following articles, or so much or so
many thercof as he may have, to be selected by him or his agents, except
that the live stock so exempted under this and the following sections of
this chapter shall not be exempt from any levy or distress made under the
provisions of chapter minety-three of this Code:

First. The family Bible.

Second. Family pictures, school books, and library for the use of the
family, not exceeding in all one hundred dollars in value.

Third. A seat or pew in any house or place of public worship.

Fourth. A lot in a burial ground.

Fifth. All necessary wearing apparel of the debtor and his family; all
beds, bedsteads, and bedding necessary for the use of such family; and all
stoves and appendages put up and kept for the necessary use of the family.
not exceeding three.

Sixth. One cow and her calf till one vear old, one horse, six chairs, six
plates, one table, six knives, six forks, one dozen spoons, two dishes, two
basins, one pot, one oven, six pieees of wooden or earthenware, one loom
and its appurtenances, one safe or press, one spinning wheel, one pair of
cards, one axe, two hoes; ten barrels of corn, or, in lieu thereof, twentv-
five bushels of rye or buckwheat; five bushels of wheat, or one barrel of
flour; twenty bushels of potatoes, two hundred pounds of bacon or pork,
three hogs, fowls not exceeding in value ten dollars, ten dollars in value
of forage or hay, one cooking stove and utensils for cooking therewith, one
sewing “machine, and in the case of a mechanie, the tools and utensils of
his irade, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value, and in case of an
ovsterman or fisherman, his boat and tackle, not exceeding two hundred
dollars in value; if the boat and tackle exceed two hundred dollars in
value the same shall be sold, and out of the proceeds the oysterman or
fisherman shall first receive two hundred dollars in lieu of such boat and
tackle.

2. This act shall be in foree from its passage.