Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That each person being the head of a family and residing with the same, shall be permitted to retain exempt from Execution, in addition to the property mentioned in the Nineteenth section of “an act concerning judgments and Executions” approved January Seventeenth one thousand Eight hundred and twenty five Sixty Dollars worth of property suited to his or her occupation and Condition

Sec 2 The first section of an act entitled “an act exempting certain articles from Execution in addition to those already Exempted by the laws of this state” approved February first one thousand Eight hundred and Forty, is hereby repealed. and the second section of said act, shall be construed to apply to the first section of this act, Provided this act shall not take effect upon any contract, or cause of action occurring before the first day of June next.

Sec 3 In all cases where distress shall be made for Rent, before any sale shall be made of the property distrained, it shall be the duty of the party distraining, to have the defendant summoned, before the Circuit Court or Justice of the Peace, and then and there to prove his demand, as in other cases. Justices of the Peace shall have jurisdiction in cases under this act, to the amount of one hundred dollars, And in case the defendant shall have absconded or removed from the state, then notice, shall be given before Justices of the Peace or the Circuit Court, as in cases of Attachment.

Sec 4 That the same articles of property Exempted from Execution by this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, shall also be Exempt from being taken by distress for Rent.