ds of the
heirs because of the homestead right of the ancestors, although the
property is not occupied as a homestead by such heirs.

[Sidenote: Exemptions. To head of family.]

If a debtor is a resident of this state, and is the head of a family, he
may hold exempt from execution the following property: All wearing
apparel of himself and family kept for actual use and suitable to their
condition, and the trunks or other receptacles necessary to contain the
same; one musket or rifle and shot-gun; all private libraries, family
bibles, portraits, pictures, musical instruments, and paintings, not
kept for the purpose of sale; a seat or pew occupied by the debtor or
his family in any house of public worship; an interest in a public or
private burying ground, not exceeding one acre for any defendant; two
cows and calf; one horse, unless a horse is exempt as hereinafter
provided; fifty sheep and the wool therefrom and the materials
manufactured from such wool; six stands of bees; five hogs, and all pigs
under six months; the necessary food for all animals exempt from
execution, for six months; all flax raised by the defendant on not
exceeding one acre of ground and the manufactures therefrom; one
bedstead and the necessary bedding for every two in the family; all
cloth manufactured by the defendant, not exceeding one hundred yards in
quantity; household and kitchen furniture, not exceeding two hundred
dollars in value; all spinning-wheels and looms, one sewing machine and
other instruments of domestic labor kept for actual use; the necessary
provisions and fuel for the use of the family for six months; the proper
tools, instruments or books of the debtor, if a farmer, mechanic,
surveyor, clergyman, lawyer, physician, teacher or professor; the horse
or the team consisting of not more than two horses or mules, or two
yoke of cattle, and the wagon or other vehicle with the proper harness
or tackle, by the use of which the debtor, if a physician, public
officer, farmer, teamster, or other laborer habitually earns his living;
and to the debtor, if a printer, there shall also be exempt a printing
press and a newspaper office connected therewith, not to exceed in all
the value of twelve hundred dollars. Any person entitled to any of the
exemptions mentioned in this section does not waive his rights thereto
by failing to designate or select such exempt property or by failing to
object to a levy thereon, unless failing or refusing so