The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-09 00:00:00

THE RIGHTS OF • WOMEN,

The following bill hai "lust passed the New YOrk
Legislature, arid awaits the Governor's approval, upon
obtaining which it will become leo
SECTION 1. The property, both real and personal,
which ariy married woman now owns, as her sole and
separate property, that which comes to her by descent,
devise, bequest, gift, or grant ; that -which she acquires
by her trade, business, labour, or services, carried on or
performed on her sole or separate account; that which
a woman married in this State owns at the ,time of her
marriage, and the rents, issues, and proceeds of all such
property shall, notwithstanding her marriage, be and
remain her sole and separate property, and may be used,
collected, and invested by her in her own name, and
shall not be subject to the interference or control of her
husband, or liable for his debts, except such debts as
may have been contracted for the support of herself or
hcr children, by het as his agent.
SEC. 2. A married woman may bargain, sell, assign,
and transfer her separate personal property, and carry
on any trade- or business, and perform any labour or
services on her sole and separate, account; and the earn-
ings of any married woman from her trade, business
labour, or services, shall be her sole and separate pro-
perty, and may be used or invested by her in her own
name.

Sac. 3. Any married woman possessed of real estate
as her separate property may bargain, isell, and convey
such property, and enter into any contract in reference
to- the same, but no such conveyance or contract shall be
valid without the assent in writing of her husband,
except as hereinafter provided.

Sac. 4. In case any married woman possessed of
separate real property, as aforesaid, may desire to sell
or convey the same, or to make any contract in relation
thereto, and shall be unable to procure the assent of her
husband, as in the preceding section provided, in conse-
quence of his refusal, absence, insanity, or other dis-
ability, such married woman may apply to the County
Court in the county where she shall at the time reside,
for leave to make such sale, conveyance, or contract,
without the assseut of her 11Usbaucl.

SEC. 5. Such application may be made by petition,
verified by her, .aud setting forth the grounds of such
application. If the husband be a resident of the county,
and not under disability, from insanity or other cause,
a copy of said petition shall be served upon him,
with a notice of the time when the same will be
presented to the said court, at least ten days bofore
such application. In all other cases the County Court,
to which such application shall be made, shall, in its
discretion, determine whether any notice shall be given,
and, if any, the mode and manner of giving it.
SEC. 6. If it shall satisfactorily appear to such court,
upon such application, that the husband of such appli-
cant has wilfully abandoned his said wife, and lives
separate and apart from her, or that he is insane, or
imprisoned as a convict in any state prison, or that he is
an habitual drunkard, or that he is in any way disabled
from making a contract, or that ho refuses to give his
consent, without good cause therefore, then such court
shall cause an order. upon its records, authorising such
married woman to sell and convey her real estate, or
contract in regard thereto, without the assent of. her
husband, with the same effect as though such conveyance
or contract had been made with his assent.

SEC. 7. Any married woman may, while married, sue
and be sued in all matters having relation to her pro-
pe.-7ty, which may be her sole and separate property. or
which may hereafter come to her by descent, devise,
bequest, or the gift of any, person except her husband,
in the same manner as 'if she were sole. And any
married woman may bring and maintain an action in
her own- name-for damages, against any perm or body
corporate for any injury to ber person or character, the
same as if she were sole; and the money received upon
the settlement of any such action, or recovered upon a
judgment, shall be her sole and separate property.

Sac. 8. No bargain or contract made by any married
woman in respect to her sole and separate property, or
any property which may hereafter come to her by de-
scent, devise, bequest, or gift of any person except her
husband, and no bargain or contract entered into by
any married woman in or about the carrying on of any
trade or business, under the statutes of this State, shall
be binding upon her husband, or render him or his pro-
perty in any way liable therefore. - •

- Sim; 9. Every. married woman is hereby- malted
and declared to be the joint guardian of her children,
with her husband, with equal powers, rights, and du-
ties in regard to them, with the husband. -
Sac. 10. At the decease of husband or wife, leaving
no minor child or children, the survivor shall hold
possess, and enjoy a life-estate in one-third 4 all the
real estate-6f 'which.
_the husband or wife died seized.
SEC. 11. At the decease of the husband or wife, in-
testate, leaving miner child or children, the survivor
shall hold, possess, and enjoy all the real estate of which
the husband or wife died seized, and all the rents., issues,
and profits thereof during the minority of the youngest
child,, and one-third thereof during his or her natural

The citizens of Orleans have paid the law expenses of
their bishop on account of the recent trial for libel.
Two of the bishop's advocates each received £4OO.
BOOKBINDING.—Good old bindings, be the book ever
se worthless, seem to be in demand at present. Messrs.
Puttick and Si'Upson, at their sale of the private library
and stock of books of Mr. John Clarke, the well-known
skilful bookbinder, realised high prices for two or three
specimens of ornamented leather. Amongst them were
a copy of Field's Bible, folio, 1659, in the original richly
tooled morocco cover, £25. Apostolic Histories, a
tine specimen of old English binding, but slightly in-
jured, £l5 6s. Psalteriuni, a Castiglione, Basil, 1547,
elegantly tooled citron morocco, £9. Some works from
Mr. Clarke's own hands also sold very high. In the
same sale a collection of Defoe's smaller pieces and tracts,
in sixty-two volumes, sold for £43, and a copy of Eliot's
Indian. Grammar, printed at Cambridge, New England,
1666, although in bad condition, sold for £37 10.
DEATH OF A THEATRICAL VETERAN.—OId play-
goers at Brighton during the last forty years have been
well acquainted with Mr. Robert Burton, the handy-
man of the establishment—the Theatre-Royal, Brighton
—since the time of Jerry Russell, through the several
grades of call-boy, prompter, costumier, property-man,
scene-painter, general odd man, the heavy villain, second
old man, &c., &c. His soul was in theatricals, and every
character was within his capacity ; his enactments being
always respectable, though never soaring above medio-
crity. Till within the last few years he was of the stock
company of the several lessees, and' his benefits were
looked forward to with more than ordinary interest; as
on those occasions he aspired to Shylock, Oihello, and
Hamlet, characters with which he identified him§elf,
but marred with his croaking voice and awkward
gait. He had, from long practice, a thorough know-
ledge of stage business, and on occasions of amateur
performances his services wore in great request. Recently
he has filled the office of money-taker at the gallery en-
trance ; and in the " home department" has performed
the duties of Boniface at the " Star of Brighton," in
Trafalgar-street, which house he left a few weeks since.
For some time he had been in a precarious state of
health, and on Sunday morning last, feeling much better
than usual, he got up to breakfast, an effort that was
too.great for his prostrated system, and shortly after
expired iii his chair. Burton was ever ready to give
his assistance in the cause of charity, and whether in
private life as a citizen, or in public life as a performer,
ie vraa much esteemed.—Brighton Observer,