1272 SALES AND NOTICES. [ART. 83.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 83, sec. 8. 1834, ch. 309, sec. 2.

7. In every case in which notice by publication in a newspaper is
required to be made by any sheriff, coroner, elisor, or other
officer, the defendant shall have the right to select the news-
paper in which such notice shall be published, and upon his refusal
or neglect so to do, the officer shall make publication in the news-
paper making the lowest charge for the advertisement.

Exemption from Execution.

1861, ch. 7. sec. 1.

8. One hundred dollars worth of property of each defendant
therein shall be exempt from execution issued on any judgment
in any civil proceeding whatever, except on judgments for breach
of promise to marry or for seduction.

Bramble v. State, 41 Md. 440. State v. Boulden, 57 Md. 314. Muhr v. Fin-
over, 67 Md 487.

Ibid. sec. 2.

9. Each defendant in any such execution may select property,
real or personal, to the value of one hundred dollars, to be ascer-
tained by three disinterested appraisers, to be summoned and
sworn by the officer at the time of levying the execution; and the
appraisement signed by the appraisers shall be returned with the
writ.

Ibid. sec. 3.

10. If any property of any defendant, whether real or personal,
cannot be divided so as to set apart a portion of it of the value of
one hundred dollars, without loss and injury to all parties con-
cerned, then the whole shall be sold, and the defendant whose
property is so sold shall have one hundred dollars of the proceeds
in money; and whether the property can be divided without loss
shall be determined by the appraisers. This section only to apply
to cases where a single parcel of land or single article of personal
property is levied on, and in all such cases the officer shall not
sell unless the property offered shall bring more than one hun-
dred dollars.

1861, ch. 7, sec. 4. 1884, ch. 504.

11. All wearing apparel, mechanical text-books and books of
professional men, tools of mechanics, and all tools or other me