STATE OF MAINE.

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An additional act to promote the sale and
settlement Of the Public Lands.


iScc. |. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives in LEGISLATURE
assembled, that whenever any person shall
hereafter purchase Of the State, for the
purpose of orcnpation, and Improvement.
aay of the se,llin- lands, and shall become
an actual settler thereon, he and his heirs.
shall hold one hundred aud sixty acres of
the same, with the buildings and improve.
n1ents, exempt from attachment rnesrie pro-
cess and execution for the period Of ten
years, provided that he or they shall SO
long continue in the actual occupation and
improvement OF the same Provided how
ever, that this Act shall not extend to ex-
empt from attachment as aforesaid. proper.
ty TO an amount exceeding ono thousand
tive hundred dollars: and provided also
that when the land so purchased, as afore-
sad with the improvements, shall exceed
the sum OF one Thousand and five hundred
dollars, the excess shall not be protected
by any of the provisions Of this Act


Sec. BE it further enacted, that when
ever any execution creditor shall desire to
have his execution levied upon so much Of
the real estate of his debtor, as is made
subject to attachment by the aforesaid pro-
visions OF this Act, it shall be the duty or
the appraisers, after first taking the oath
prescribed by law, in the first place, to set
off to said debtor in execution, so much Of
the estate as may be of the value of one
tbnncpp nd Eyo bp,l roI Il 4
shall be so set off as best TO include the
buildings and improvements, if the said
debier shall desire it, and the residue of the
estate, if any, shall bcsubject to be set off
on execution, III the same manner, as other
unincumbered real estate of such debtor.
and in no other way shall said estate be
subject to attachment.


Sec. 8. BE it further enacted, that this.
Act stall take effect, from and after its ap-
proval by the Governor.


In Senate, Feb 90, 1889. This Bill
was read twice and its passage refused.
Sent down for concurrence.


WILLIAM TRAFTON, Secretary:


House Of Representatives, March 9,
lo39.-Tbis Bill having had three several
readings, the House nonconcurred the Sem
ate in refusing the same passage, refer
red the same TO the next Legislature, and
ordered it to be published in all the news
papers IN the State, that publish the laws
Of the State. Sent up for concurrence.


GEORGE ROBINSON, Clerk.


In Senate, March II, 1889. The Senate
receded from the vote refusing this Bill a
passage, and concurred with the House in
referring the same to the next Legislature
and the order to publish the same in all the.
newspapers in this State that publish tES
laws Of the State. .


WILLIAM TRAFTON, Secretary.