Exemptions are important in bankruptcy. If property is âexemptâ, it means the debtor. may keep the property and does not have to turn it over to the bankruptcy trustee. All property-. even property the debtor intends to keep -must be listed on the debtorâs bankruptcy schedules.
In 1803 Robert Fulton invented the steamboat In 1736, Jonathan Hulls took out a patent in England for a Newcomen engine-powered steamboat. (but James Watt's improvement to t â¦ he steam engine made it feasible).
Alabama steamboats were owned by companies and individuals throughout the nineteenth century. The earliest steamboat companies were the St. Stephens Steamboat Company, organized in 1818, the Steamboat Company of Alabama in 1820, and the Mobile Steamboat Company in 1821. By 1861, however, most boats on Alabama rivers belonged to Cox, Brainard & Company.