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Married Women

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
May
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

An act has just been passed by the Legislature of New York for the protection of the property of married vvonien. A correspondent of the Journal of commerce says : There bas been a misapprehension in relation to this Bill. It was called a bilí to protect the rights of married toornen. They will protect tlieir ovvn rights. This lavv will protect tlieir property. A good luisband will not complain of iï. A bad one should not. There is one omission in the Bill, and that is the present statute does not allow a female to make a will. Tliey are classed in the statuies with persons of unsound mind, a sad Romembrancer of ihe Revisors, or of the Legislature who affinned tlieir acts. CU" A letter vvritten frotn Paris and publisliecl in the Cincinnati Herald, states tlial Mr. Walsh, United States Consul at Paris, has been very active in endeavoring to influence the leaders of the recent revolution in (Trance. He was at the last accounts en gaged in drawing lip a synopsis ofour Constitntion, vvith notes on the applicability of its provisions to tb.3 condition of F ranee, and intended presenting the result of his labors to tho3e leaders who requested hiin to undertake it.