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How to Collect a Doctor Bill

by Franklyn P. Davis

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New Mexico

Every person who has a family may hold the following property exempt from execution, attachment, or sale: The wearing apparel of such person or family; the beds, bedsteads, and bedding necessary for the use of the same; one cooking-stove and pipe; one stove and pipe used for warming the dwelling; fuel sufficient for sixty days; one cow, or if the debtor owns no cow, household furniture not exceeding forty dollars in value; two swine or the pork therefrom, or, if the debtor owns no swine, household furniture not exceeding fifteen dollars in value; six sheep, the wool shorn from them and the cloth or other articles manufactured therefrom, or, in lieu thereof, household furniture not exceeding twenty dollars in value; sufficient food for such animals for sixty days; Bibles, hymn-books, psalm-books, testaments, school and miscellaneous books used in the family, and all family pictures; provisions provided and designed for the use of such person or family; not exceeding fifty dollars in value; and such other articles of household and kitchen furniture, or either, necessary for such person or family, not exceeding two hundred dollars in value; one sewing-machine, one knitting-machine, one gun or pistol, and the tools or implements of debtor necessary for carrying on his trade or business, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars in value; the personal earnings of debtor for sixty days next preceding his application for such exemption, when necessary for the support of such debtor or his family; all articles, specimens in cabinets of natural history or science, except such as may be intended for exhibition for pecuniary gain; if engaged in agriculture; two horses or one yoke of cattle, with the necessary gearing for the same, and one wagon; if a doctor, one horse, one saddle and bridle, professional books, medicines and instruments not exceeding one hundred dollars in value; if a lawyer professional books not exceeding five hundred dollars in value; every person engaged in the business of draying, or carrying property from place to place with one horse and wagon, shall hold one horse, harness, dray, or wagon also exempt from execution. Every unmarried woman may hold exempt from execution, etc., wearing apparel not exceeding in value one hundred and fifty dollars; one sewing-machine, one knitting-machine; if engaged in teaching music, one piano or organ; a Bible, hymn-book, psalm-book, album, and any other books not exceeding in value fifty dollar; any beneficiary fund, not exceeding five thousand dollars, set apart or paid by any benevolent association to a family of a deceased member, or to any member of such family, shall not be liable for the debts of such deceased member. Husband and wife, widow or widower, living with an unmarried daughter, or unmarried minor son, may hold exempt from sale or judgment of a family homestead not exceeding one thousand dollars in value. Any head of a family not the owner of a homestead may hold exempt from levy and sale real or personal property not exceeding five hundred dollars in value in addition to the chattel property otherwise by law exempted.

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