District of Columbia
The following property is exempt from execution: Wearing apparel belonging to all persons and to all heads of families being householders; beds, bedding, household furniture, stoves, cooking utensils, etc., not exceeding three hundred dollars in value; provisions for three months’ support, whether provided or growing; fuel for three months; mechanics’ tools and implements of professional man or artist to value of three hundred dollars; one horse, one mule, or yoke of oxen; one cart, one wagon or dray, and harness for such team; farming utensils, with food for such team for three months, and if the debtor be a farmer, any other farming tools of value of one hundred dollars; all family pictures and all family library not exceeding in value four hundred dollars; one cow, one swine, six sheep. (Sec. 1105, Code.)
The earnings, not to exceed one hundred dollars each month, of all actual residents of the District of Columbia, and who are married persons or who have to provide for the support of a family in the District, for two months next proceeding the issuing of any writ or process from any court or justice of the peace, or other officer of and in the District against them, shall be exempt from attachment, levy, seizure, or sale upon such process; and the same shall not be seized, levied on, or taken, reached or sold by attachment, execution, or in any other process or proceedings of any court, judge, justice of the peace, or other officer of and in the District. (Sec. 1107, Code.)