THE wearing apparel of every person shall be exempt from sale on execution, writ of attachment, or distress for rent, necessary for use. The following property, when owned by any person being the head of a family and residing with the same, shall be exempt from levy and sale on any execution, writ of attachment, or distress for rent, and such articles of property shall continue so exempt while the family of such person or any of them are removing from one place of residence to another in this state, viz. : 1. Necessary beds, bedsteads, and bedding; the necessary utensils for cooking; necessary household furniture, not exceeding in value fifteen dollars; one pair of cards, two spinning-wheels, one weaving-loom and appendage, one stove and the necessary pipe therefor, being in use or put up for ready use in any house occupied by such family. 2. One milch-cow and calf; two sheep for each member of the family, and the fleeces taken from the same, or the fleeces of two sheep for each member of a family which may have been purchased by any debtor not owning sheep, and the yarn and cloth that may be manufactured from the same; and sixty dollars' worth of property suited to his or her condition or occupation in life, to be selected by the debtor. 3. The necessary provisions and fuel for the use of the family for three months, and necessary food for the stock hereinbefore exempted from sale, or that may be held under the provisions of this act. When any lot not exceeding ten acres shall be appropriated and used as a burying ground, and shall be recorded as such in the recorder's office of the county, shall be exempt from all taxes; and when sold in lots for burying the dead, the said lots shall not be subject to execution or attachment; provided that no person shall hold more than one eighth of an acre exempt from execution. When in any case the head of a family dies, deserts or ceases to reside with the same, the said family shall be entitled to retain the property above exempted, free from levy and sale on execution. |