ART. 83.] SALES AND NOTICES. 1269

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 82, sec. 8. 1835, ch. 137, sec. 1.

3. In no case shall indemnity be recovered when it shall be
satisfactorily proved that the civil authorities and citizens of said
county, town or city, when called on by the civil authorities
thereof, have used all reasonable diligence and all the powers
intrusted to them for the prevention or suppression of such
riotous or unlawful assemblages.

Ibid. sec. 4 1835, ch. 137, sec. 2.

4. In any suit instituted under this article, the plaintiff may
declare generally and give the special matter in evidence.

ARTICLE LXXXIII.

SALES AND NOTICES.

Sales under Execution. 1. Legal and equitable interest in land may be seized and sold by sheriff. 2. Purchaser to be entitled to deed from sheriff. 3. Notice of sales under execution 4. Notice where editor of newspaper refuses to publish. 5. Defendant to be liable for costs of publication 6. Court to direct place of publica- tion, number of newspapers, number of insertions, but shall not designate the newspaper 7. Defendant to have the right to select the newspaper. Exemption from Execution. 8. $100 of property to be exempt, exceptions. 9. Defendant to select property to be exempted; value, how ascer- tained.

10 If indivisible, it shall be sold and $100 of proceeds paid to defen- dant. 11. Wearing apparel, text-books of mechanics and professional men, and tools and instruments of mechanics, to be exempt. 12. Sections 8-11 not to affect any lien of vendor, mortgagee, mechanic, nor to apply to taxes. 13. Exemption applicable only to ac- tual residents of the State. 14. Exemption may be waived, and waiver enforced. Assignments to Non-residents. 15. Assignment of claims to non-resi- dents for the purpose of foreign attachment or suit, so as to evade exemption laws of this State, to be unlawful; penalty. 16. Proof of assigning to be evi- dence of guilty intent. 17. Copy of record of proceedings of foreign justice of the peace to be evidence.