Public Law 45–321

That 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 said District, for two mouths next preceding the issuing of any writ or process from any court or justice of the peace, or other officer of and in said District, against them, shall be exempt from attachment, levy, seizure, or sale upon such process; and the same shall not be seized, levied on, taken, reached, or sold by attachment, execution, or any other process, or proceedings of any court, judge, justice of the peace, or other officer of and in said District: provided, That

Proviso.

this act and nothing herein contained shall apply, or in any manner affect any existing debt, contract, note, or judgment.

Sec. 2.

That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions

Repeals.

of this act be, and they are hereby, repealed.