Chap. 116.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 33, chapter 4¢
of Code of 1873, in relation to property being exempt from distres
or levy. |

Approved February 12, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha
section thirty-three of chapter forty-nine of the Code of Vir
ginia of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended an
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§33. In case of a husband, parent, or other person, who is.
housekeeper and head of a family, there shall be exempt fron
distress or levy the following articles, or so much or so man:
thereof as the party may have:

First. The family bible.

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

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

F ourth. A lot in any burial ground.

Fifth. All necessary wearing apparel of the debtor and hi
family; all beds, bedsteads and bedding necessary for the us
of such family; all stoves and appendages put up and kept fc
the necessary use of the family, not to exceed three.

Sixth. One cow and calf till one year old, one horse, s'
chairs, one table, six knives, six forks, six plates, one doze
spoons, two dishes, two basins, one pot, one oven, six piece
of wood or earthenware, one loom and its appurtenances, on
safe or press, one spinning wheel, one pair of cards, one axe
two hoes, ten barrels of corn, or in lieu thereof, twenty-fiv
bushels of rye or buckwheat, five bushels cf wheat or one ba:
rel of flour, two hundred pounds of’bacon or pork, three hog:
ten dollars in value of forage or hay, one cooking-stove and
utensils for cooking therewith, and one sewing-machineyg and
in case of a mechanic, the tools and utensils of his tradé, not
exceeding one hundred dollars in value; and in case of an oys-
terman or fisherman, his boat and tackle, not exceeding in
value two hundred dollars. If, however, the boat and tackle
should exceed in value two hundred dollars, then the same
shall be sold, and out of the proceeds the oysterman or fisher-
man shall first receive two hundred dollars in lieu of his boat
and tackle. ¢ But the householder and head of a family being
entitled to and claiming a pair of horses or mules under the
next succeeding section, shall not be entitled to the one horse
under this section.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.