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tools, team and other personal property; sixty days' 

 wages. 



North Carolina. A homestead to the value of $1,000, 

 ami personal property worth $500. No exemption is 

 good against taxes, purchase-money, or mechanics' 

 liens. 



Ohio. Homestead is exempt to the value of $1,000; 

 if appraised to a higher value a partition is made, or an 

 appropriate rental is charged. Clothing and necessary 

 furniture are exempted ; tools and farming implements 

 to value $100 ; $50 worth of provisions and three months' 

 wages ; one horse or yoke of cattle, harness and wagon ; 

 one cow, two hogs, six sheep, and sixty days' provender, 

 or, instead, $C5 in household property. A professional 

 man's books, $100. When resident debtor, being head 

 of a family, has no homestead, he may retain personal 

 property to the value of $500, besides other exempted 

 property. 



Oklahoma. Exemption to head of a family outside 

 of city or town not to exceed 160 acres j and in a city or 

 town not more than one acre ; in addition thereto, cer- 

 tain personal effects and equipment appertaining to the 

 various vocations. These exemptions do not apply to 

 corporations for profit, to a non-resident, or a debtor 

 who is in the act of removing his family from the terri- 

 tory, or who has absconded, taking witli him his family. 



To a single person : Wearing apparel, tools, appara- 

 tus and books belonging to a trade or profession ; one 

 horse, saddle and bridle or one yoke of oxen ; current 

 wages for personal service. In certain classes of debts 

 all exemptions are invalid. 



Oregon. Musical instruments, books and pictures, 

 $75; household effects, $300; clothing, $100, and cloth- 

 ing to each member of the family, $50 ; team, tools, in- 

 struments, library or whatever is needed in the trade or 

 profession of debtor, $400 ; ten sheep, two cows, five 

 nogs, three months' provisions and six months' prov- 

 ender. No exemption is good against a claim for pur- 

 chase-money. No homestead. 



Pennsylvania. Clothing, books, sewing machine 

 and $300 worth of other property. Right may be 

 waived. No homestead. 



Rhode Island. Furniture and supplies for family, 

 $300; tools, $200; library, $300; wages, $10; clothing; 

 one cow and one hog ; debts secured by negotiable 

 paper. No homestead. 



South Carolina. Homestead, $1,000 ; this right can- 

 not be waived. Furniture, wagons, live stock and tools, 

 to value of $500. Homestead exemption cannot hold 

 against an execution for the purchase-money, a lien for 

 improvements or for taxes. Any person not the head of 

 a family may have one third of 'his annual earnings ex- 

 empted, 



Tennessee. Only the head of a family can have the 

 benefit of exemptions : $1,000 homestead and a variety 

 of personal property designated by statute, prominent 

 items being horses, mules, oxen, cows, calves, wagon, 

 tools, lumber, grain, provisions, beds, bedding, furni- 

 ture, and $30 wages. 



Texas. Two hundred acres of land with improve- 

 ments in the country, or city property to value at time 

 of being designated as homestead (regardless of the 

 value of after improvements) of $5,000. Furniture, 

 farming implements, tools, books, five cows and calves, 

 two yoke of cattle, two horses and wagon, a carriage or 

 buggy, twenty hogs, twenty sheep, provision, proven- 

 der and many other articles. The exemption of the 

 homestead is not good rfgainst taxes, purchase-money or 

 mechanics' lien ; but in this last case the contract must, 

 have been signed by both husband and wife. On the 

 death of a husband, the widow and children may have 

 one year's support out of the estate, and if the property 

 be not in such shape as to be exempted by law, enough 

 may T>e sold to raise an allowance for homestead to 

 value of $5,000 and other property $500. Any person 

 not the head of a family may have exempted clothing, 

 books, horse, bridle and saddle. 



Utah. Homestead, $1,000 ; personal property to head 

 of the family, $700, and to each member $250. Not 

 good against purchase-money, mechanics' lien or a 

 mortgage. 



Vermont. Homestead, $500 ; growing crop, clothing, 

 furniture, sewing machine, tools, one cow, ten sheep, 

 one hog, three hives of bees, poultry, one yoke of oxen 

 or two Thorses, fuel, provisions and provender; also the 

 instruments and library of a professional man, $200. 



Virginia. The head of a family who is a householder 

 has a homestead exemption to the value of $2,000, which 

 m'ay be in real or personal property, both or either. 

 Also clothing, sewing machine, furniture and animals ; 



books. $100 ; tools, $100. The value of the exemptions 

 outside of the homestead is varied according to the 

 number in family, and ranges from $50 to $500. 



West Virginia. Homestead, $1,000, where the 

 property has been granted or devised for the purpose, 

 to the head of a family, or where he has devoted such 

 property to that purpose by having it so recorded. 

 Also personal property to value of $200. Tools to 

 mechanic, $50. 



"Washington. Homestead (must be actually occu- 

 pied) to the value of $1,000; clothing, books, bedding 

 and household goods, to value of $1,500; one small boat 

 to value of $50; two cows, five hogs, bees, poultry, fuel, 

 and provisions. To a farmer, two horses, or two yoke 

 of oxen, and farming implements to value of $200. To 

 professional man, library worth $500, office furniture 

 and fuel. To lighterman, his boats, to value of $250. 

 To drayman, his team. 



Wisconsin. Forty acres in the country, or one 

 quarter of an acre in town, with the dwelling thereon. 

 Clothing, household furniture, $200 ; books, two cows, 

 ten hogs, ten sheep, one horse and yoke of cattle, or a 

 pair of horses and mules, farming tools, one year's pro- 

 visions and provender. To a mechanic, tools, $200 ; pro- 

 fessional man, his library, $200 ; a publisher or printer, 

 his outfit for $1,500. To any head of a family, sixty 

 days' earnings. No exemption good against a me- 

 chanic's lien or claim for purchase-money. 



Wyoming. House and lot in town or one hundred 

 and sixty acres of land in the country, either to value 

 of $1,500. Tools, team and stock in trade of mechanic, 

 miner, or other person, $300. Benefit of exemption can 

 only be claimed by a bona fide resident householder. 



Ontario. The exemptions from executionare, speak- 

 ing generally : the beds and bedding in ordinary use by 

 the debtor and his family; necessary wearing apparel 

 and a list of domestic utensils necessarily incident to 

 living, not to exceed in value the sum of $150 ; necessary 

 provender for 30 days not to exceed in value the sum of 

 $40 ; a cow, six sheep, four hogs, and twelve hens, in all 

 not to exceed the value of $75; tools and implements 

 ordinarily used in the debtor's occupation to the value 

 of $100 or the debtor may elect to receive the proceeds 

 of the sale of such tools up to $100. 



Under the Free Grants and Homestead Act, there is 

 an exemption from liability for any debt incurred be- 

 fore the issue of the patent and for twenty years from 

 date of location, except where the land itself is mort- 

 gaged or pledged or for the payment of taxes. 



Quebec. The exemptions from execution are : beds, 

 beading and bedsteads in ordinary use by debtor 

 and his family ; necessary wearing apparel ; one stove 

 and pipes and a number of smaller articles; all 

 necessary fuel, meat, vegetables, fish, flour not more 

 than sufficient for ordinary consumption of debtor and 

 family for thirty day sand not exceeding in value $40; 

 one cow, four sheep, two hogs and food therefor for 

 thirty days ; tools and implements or chattels ordinarily 

 used in debtor's occupation. No real estate. 



New Brunswick. Wearing apparel; bedding, 

 kitchen utensils ; tools of trade to the value of $100 are 

 exempted. 



Nova Scotia. Necessary wearing apparel ; beds, bed- 

 ding and bedsteads of debtor and his family; 

 household utensils not exceeding in value $20; 

 food enough for thirty days' consumption and not ex- 

 ceeding in value $40 ; one cow, two sheep, and hay and 

 food therefor for thirty days; tools or chattels ordi- 

 narily used in the debtor's occupation to the value of 

 $30. No real estate. 



Prince Edward Island. Necessary wearing apparel 

 and bedding for the debtor and his family ; tools and 

 instruments of his trade or calling ; $16.20 in money and 

 his last cow are exempted from execution out of Su- 

 preme Court. Wearing apparel and bedding of debtor 

 and hisfamily; the tools and implements of his trade; 

 one cook stove and one cow, in all amounting in value to 

 $50, are exempt from process out of county court. 



Manitoba. Household goods to the value of 500; 

 tools, agricultural implements and necessaries used by 

 the debtor in his trade, occupation or profession, to the 

 value of $500 ; homestead to the extent of ICO acres being 

 the residence of the debtor, the buildings and improve- 

 ments thereon ; or the town residence of the debtor to 

 the value of $1,500, provided that no real or personal 

 property shall be exempt from seizure or sale under 

 execution for the purchase price of the same. A debtor 

 cannot waive his exemption from seizure and sale under 

 execution. 



Northwest Territories. Necessary clothing of 



