about to sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of his property, with intent to hinder, defraud, or delay his creditors. No attach ment, for being a non-resident, or secretly leaving the Territory sha issue against any debtor while his family remains settled within the county where he usually resided, prior to his absence, if he shall not continue absent from the Territory more than one year after he shall have absented himself, unless an attempt be made to conceal his absence. The plaintiff, or some one in his behalf, shall, before a writ issues, execute a bond, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the clerk of the court, payable to the defendant, agreeing to pay all damages which may be sustained by the defendant, if the proceedings of the plaintiff shall be wrongful and oppressive.

NEVADA TERRITORY.-Attachments may issue against a debtor when he is not a resident of this Territory; when he has absconded or absented himself from his usual place of abode, or is about to abscond or absent himself, so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon him; when he conceals himself to avoid process; when he has removed, or is about to remove, any of his property or effects out of the Territory, to the injury of his creditors, or with the intent to hinder, delay, or defraud them; when he has fraudulently conveyed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of his property or effects; when he has fraudulently concealed his property and effects; and when he fraudulently contracted the debt, or incurred the obligation respecting which a suit is brought.

Before issuing a writ, the clerk shall require a written undertaking on the part of the plaintiff, in a sum not less than two hundred dollars, nor exceeding the amount claimed by the plaintiff, with sufficient sureties to the effect, that if the defendant recover judgment, or if the attachment should be dismissed, the plaintiff will pay all costs that may be awarded to the defendant, and all damage which he may sustain by reasou of the attachment, not exceeding the sum specified in the undertaking.

DAKOTA TERRITORY.-Attachments may issue against a debtor when he is not a resident of this Territory; when he has absconded with the intent to defraud his creditors, when he has left the county of his residence, to avoid the service of a summons, or so conceals himself that a summons cannot be served upon him; when he is about to remove his property, or a part thereof, out of the jurisdiction of the court, with the intent to defraud his creditors; when he is about to convert his property, or a part thereof, into money, for the purpose of placing it beyond the reach of his creditors; when he has property, or rights in action, which he conceals; when he has assigned

removed, or disposed of, or is about to dispose of his property or a part thereof, with the intent to defraud his creditors; when he has fraudulently contracted the debt, or incurred the obligations for which suit is about to be, or has been brought. But al attachment shall not be granted on the ground that the defend ant is a foreign corporation or a non-resident of this Territory, for any claim other than a debt or demand arising upon contract, judgment, or decree. When the ground of the attachment is, that the defendant is a foreign corporation, or a nonresident of this Territory, the order of attachment may be issued without an undertaking. In all other cases, the order of attachment shall not be issued by the clerk of the court, until there has been executed in his office, by one or more sufficient sureties of the plaintiff, to be approved by the clerk, an undertaking not exceeding double the amount of the plaintiff's claim, to the effect that the plaintiff shall pay the defendant all damages, which he may sustain by reason of the attachment, if the order be wrongfully obtained."

COLORADO TERRITORY.-Imprisonment for debt does not exist in this Territory. If any creditor, his agent, or attorney, shall file an affidavit, in the office of the clerk of the District Court of any county in this Territory, setting forth, that any person is indebted to such creditor in a sum exceeding twenty dollars, stating the nature and amount of such indebtedness, as near as may be, and that such debtor has departed, or is about to depart from this Territory, with the intention of having his effects removed from this Territory, or is about to remove his property, to the injury of such creditor, or that such debtor conceals himself or stands in defiance of an officer so that process cannot be served upon him, or is not a resident of this Territory, or that he is converting, or is about to convert his property into money, or otherwise dispose of his property with the intent of placing it beyond the reach of such creditor, it shall be lawful for such clerk to issue a writ of attachment, directed to the sheriff of the county, returnable like other writs, commanding him to attach lands, tenements, goods, chattels, rights, credits, moneys, and effects of said debtor of every kind, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the clai sworn to, with interest and costs of suit, in whose hands or possession the same may be found; and it shall be lawful for the clerk to issue, and the sheriff or other officer to serve, an attachment against such debtor, on a Sunday, as on any other day, as is directed in this act.

EXEMPTION LAWS.

THE following are the laws of the different States relative to the property exempted by statute from attachment on execution: MAINE.-The wearing apparel of the debtor and his family; one bedstead, bed, and necessary bedding for every two persons in the family, and other household furniture to the value of fifty dollars; the tools necessary for the debtor's trade or occupation; all the Bibles and school-books in actual use in the family, and one copy of the State Statutes; stoves used exclusively for warming buildings; one cow and one heifer, till she becomes three years old; two swine, one of which shall not weigh more than one hundred pounds; (and when the debtor owns a cow and a heifer more than three years old, or two swine, each weighing more than one hundred pounds, he may elect the cow or the heifer, or either of the swine, to be exempted ;) ten sheep and the wool from them; thirty hundred weight of hay for the cow, and two tons for the sheep, and a sufficient quantity for the heifer, proportioned to its age; the produce of farms while standing and growing and until harvested, and sufficient corn and grain for the sustenance of the debtor and his family, not exceeding thirty bushels; one pew in any meeting-house where he and his family statedly worship; all potatoes raised or purchased for the consumption of himself and family; firewood, not exceeding twelve cords, conveyed to his house for his use; one boat, not exceeding two tons burden, being owned wholly by an inhabitant of the State, and usually employed in the fishing business; one cart, of the value of twenty-five dollars; one harrow, five dollars; one plough, ten dollars; one cooking-stove, thirty-five dollars; anthracite coal, five tons; bituminous coal, fifty bushels; and all charcoal on hand; one pair of bulls, steers, or oxen, together with hay enough to keep them through the winter; one ox-yoke, with bows, ring, and staple, to the value of three dollars; two chairs, three dollars each; one ox shed, ten dollars; one or two horses, instead of oxen, to the value of one hundred dollars; one barrel of flour and ten dollars' worth of lumber, wood, or baik; also, a lot of land, not excccding half an acre, used solely as a burying-ground One sewing-machine, worth not over one hundred dollars kept for actual use by debtor or his family. All flax raised on one half acre of ground for use of producer and family, and all articles manufactured therefrom.

Homestead.--The head of any family, or any householder wishing to exempt his homestead, consisting of a lot of land with dwelling-house and out-buildings thereon, may file a certificate

signed by himself, which shall declare his wish and describe his homestead, with the Register of Deeds for the county wherein his homestead lies; and so much of the property as does not exceed five hundred dollars in value shall be forever exempt from liability for any debt contracted after the recording of the certificate. The widow and minor children of any person deceased who held property thus exempt, may continue to hold the premises exempt during the minority of the children, or while the widow remains single.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.-Personal.-All the necessary wearing apparel of the debtor and his family; bedsteads, beds, and bedding for the family; household furniture to the value of one hundred dollars; all the Bibles and school-b oks in use in the family; one cow, and one-and-a-half tons of hay; one hog and one pig, and the pork of the same when slaughtered; tools of the debtor's occupat on, to the value of one hundred dollars; six sheep and their fleeces; one cooking-stove and its appendages; provisions and fuel to the value of fifty dollars; the interest in one pew in any meeting-house in which the debtor or his family usually worship, and in one lot or right of burial in any cemetery. Also the uniforms, arms, or equipments of every officer and rivate in the militia.

Homestead. The homestead of a householder is exempt from execution on any cause of action which has accrued since January 1, 1852. It must not exceed in value five hundred dollars, and is not subject to devise so long as the widow or minor children shall occupy the same; and no release or waiver of this exemption is valid unless made by deed executed by the husband and wife; or, if the wife be dead, and there be minor children, then by deed executed by the husband with the consent of the Judge of Probate in the county in which the land is situate, endorsed on the deed. The exemption extends to any interest, not exceeding five hundred dollars in value, which the debtor may have in a building occupied by him as a homestead, though standing on land owned by another.

The Sheriff, holding an execution about to be levied on lands and tenements, is required, on application of the debtor or his wife, to cause a homestead, not exceeding five hundred dollars in value, to be set off from the lands and tenements of the debtor, in the following manner: Three sworn appraisers, disinterested and discreet persons, residents in the county, are chosen; one by the officer, one by the creditor, and one by the debtor, who proceed to set-off a homestead by metes and bounds, and their set-off and assignment is returned by the officer for record in court. The court out of which the writ of execution or attachment is sued, may, upon good cause shown, order a re-appraisement and re-assignment by the same or other appraisers.

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under instructions from the court, and the re-appraisement as returned and recorded in the same manner as the first. When the homestead of any head of a family, in the opinion of the appraisers, cannot be divided without injury and inconvenience, they sha1 make an appraisement of the whole property. appraisal is delivered by the officer to the execution debtor, or to some member of his family old enough to understand it, with a notice attached, that unless the execution debtor shall, within sixty days, pay to the officer the surplus value over five hundred dollars, the premises will be sold. If the surplus is not paid, the officer, observing all the forms required, makes a sale of the premises, and out of the proceeds pays to the execution debtor, if his wife gives her written consent to such payment, the sum of five hundred dollars. If the wife does not consent to such payment, the officer must deposit the amount in some savings institution, to the joint credit of husband and wife, and to be withdrawn only by their joint order, or by the order of the survivor in case of the death of either. The amount is exempt for one year from the date of payment or deposit. The balance of proceeds of sale is applied on the execution. No sale can, how. ever, be made, unless more than five hundred dollars is bid; if less, the execution may be returned unsatisfied.

VERMONT.-Personal.-Suitable apparel, bedding, tools, arms, and articles of household furniture, as may be necessary for upholding life, one sewing machine kept for use, one cow, the best swine, or the meat of one swine, ten sheep, and one year's product of said sheep in wool, yarn, or cloth, forage sufficient for keeping not exceeding ten sheep and one cow through one winter, ten cords of firewood, twenty bushels of potatoes, such military arms and accoutrements as the debtor is required by law to furnish, all growing crops, ten bushels of grain, one barrel of flower, three swarms of bees, and hives, together with their produce in honey, two hundred pounds of sugar, and all lettered gravestones, the Bibles and other books used in a family, one pew or slip in a meeting-house or place of religious worship, live poultry, not exceeding in amount or value the sum of ten dollars; the professional books of clergymen and attorneys at law, to the value of two hundred dollars; and also one yoke of oxen or steers, as the debtor may select, with sufficient forage for the keeping the same through the winter: Provided, however, this latter exemption, as to one yoke of oxen or steers, and the forage therefor, is not to extend to any attachment issued on any contract made on or before the twenty-first day of November, 1859, or to any execution issued on a judgment founded on any such contract.

Homestead. The homestead of every housekeeper residing within the State, consisting of a dwelling-house, out-buildings, and the 'ands appurtenant thereto, occupied by the housekeeper