Rhode Island
The following are exempt from attachment and execution: The necessary wearing apparel of a debtor and his family, his necessary working tools, not exceeding two hundred dollars in value; and the professional library of any professional man in actual practice; his household furniture and family stores, if a housekeeper, not exceeding three hundred dollars in value; one cow and one and one-half tons of hay, of a housekeeper; one hog and one pig, and the pork of the same, of a housekeeper; arms, equipments, etc., of a militiaman, and of any person which are kept for use and not for sale; one pew in church; a burial lot; wages due or accruing to any seaman; debts secured by bills of exchange or negotiable promissory notes: and ten dollars due as the wages of labor except when action is for necessaries furnished to defendant; the salary and wages of the wife and minor children of any debtor; and such other property, real or personal, as is or shall be exempt from attachment and execution, either permanently or temporarily, by general or special acts, charters of incorporation, or by the policy of the law.