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23 An act supplementaly to an “act Entitled
“an act concerning Judgements and Executions,
approved January 17^th 1825
Sec. 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the state of
Illinois represented in The General assembly, That
Every person being the head of a family and living with
it, and whose known occupation for the support and
maintainance of his family, is farming, shall be
permitted to retain and enjoy exempt from execution
in addition to what he is permitted to retain and
enjoy under the 19^th section of the act to which
this is a supplement, one work horse, one pair
of [Gearing?] or harness, and one plough; and every
person being the [~~...~~?] a mechanic, of any description,
and also being the head of a family and living with
it and who persues his trade or mechanical art
for the support and maintaince of his family,
shall be permitted to retain and enjoy exempt
from execution, in addition to what he is per
mitted to retain and enjoy, under the aforesaid
19^th section mechanical tools, suitable to ^the^ kind
of trade or mechanical art, he may have and
pursue, to the amount of one hundred dollars,
and if any sheriff or other officer shall take or
seize and of the said articles of personal property, he
shall become liable, as in the manner provided
in the said 19^th section of the act, to which this
a supplement. provided. that nothing in this
act [contains?] shall be so construed as to exempt
any horse, except such as it kept for ordinary farm-
ing purposes, or to exempt from execution, the
tools of any mechanic, unless he shall persue his
trade or mechanical art with ordinary diligense
and industry.

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A Bill for an act supplemental to an act entitled “an “act concerning Judgements and Executions”

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Sel. Com of 7.
Henderson
Henry
Rawalt
Edmondson
Hankins
Craig of Clay
Dawson

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Com. on Man & Agriculture

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CWH[Commitee of the Whole].

1Jesse M. McCutchen introduced HB 108 in the House of Representatives on January 7, 1839. The House referred the bill to the Committee on Manufactures and Agriculture. The Committee on Manufactures and Agriculture reported back the bill on January 10 with amendments, and the House referred the bill and proposed amendments to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 14 with a substitute, and the House referred the bill and proposed substitute to the Committee of the Whole. The Committee of the Whole did not report back the bill.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia,IL: William Walters, 1838), 180, 193, 208.