Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-05-31

act to list property, shall make out and
deliver to the assessor, when required
or within ten days thereafter, a state.
ment, verified by his oath OR affirma
ton, Of all the personal property, mon
eys, credits, investments in bonds
stocks, joint stock companies, or other
wise in his possession or under the
control Of sfach person on the day next
preceding the second Monday of April
in the year in which such assessment
shall be made, and which by the provis.
ions Of this act he is required to list fol
taxation, either as owner or holder
thereof, CT as guardian, parent, husband
trustee, executor, administrator, receiver
accounting officer, partner, agent OF fac
tor.
Sec. 4. Said original section six is
hereby repealed, and this act shall take
effect on its passage.
ED. "A. PARROTT,
Speaker pro tenn. Of the House of Rep.
resentatives.
ROBERT c. KIRK,
President of the Senate
Passed March 20, 1861.
[No. 45.l AN ACT
Concerning the rights and liabilities ot
married women.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Gene.
raj Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, as fol.
lows: Section l. Amy estate or interest
legal or equitable, in real property be.
longing to any women at her marriage
or which may nave cone to her during
coverture by conveys nee, gift, devise OF
inheritance, or by pure, ',ase with hel
separate money or means, shah, together
with all rents and issues thereof, be and
remain her separate property, and under
her sole control; and she may, in her
own name, during coverture, lease the
same for any period not exceeding three
years. This act shall not affect the es-
tate by the curtesy Of any husband in
the real property Of his wife after her
deeease; but during the life Of such wife,
or of any heir of her body, such estate
shall not be taken by any process of law
for the payment of his debts, or be con-
veyed or encumbered by him, unless she
shall join therein with him in the manner
prescribed by law in regard to her own
estate.
SEC. 2. any personal property, in
Guiding rights in action, belonging 20
any woman at her marriage, or which
ma y have come to her during covsrture,
by gift, bequest or inheritance, or by
purchase with her separate money Or
means, or be due as the wages Of her
separate labor, or have grown out of any
violation Of her personal rights, shall,
together with all income, increase and
profits thereof, be and remain her sepa-
rate property and under sole control,
and shall not be liable to be taken by
any process of law for the debts Of hel
husband This act shall not affect the
title of any husband to any personal
property reduced into his possession
with the assent Of his wife: Prorided
all articles of furniture and household
goods belonging or which may have
come to any married woman, as above
set forth, shall not be deemed to have
been reduced into the possession of hel
husband by reason of their joint use ol
the same, but shall remain her separate
property.
SEC. 3. In any action against husband
and wife upon any cause existing against
her at their marriage, or upon any tort
committed by her during coverture, the
separate property of the wife shall be
also liable to be taken for any judgmen
rendered therein.
Sec. 4. Any married woman whose
husband shall desert her, or from in
temperance or other cause become in
capacitated OR neglect to provide for his
family, may, in her own name, make
contracts for her own labor and the labor
of her minor children, and in her own
name sue for and collect her own OF
their earnings. Any married woman in
such case Of desertion, incapacity OF
neglect, may file her petition in the
court of common pleas of the county in
which she resides, alleging the same
and making her husband defendant
thereto; which proceeding shall be sub.
ject to add.rules applicable to other civi
actions; and upon. proof, by testimony
of such desertion, incapacity, or neglect
the court raay, in its discretion, make al
order having the force and effect Of {
judgment, vesting such woman with tht
rights, privileges AMI abilities Of ;
feme sole, as to acquiring, possessing
and disposing Of property, real and per
sonal, making contracts and being liabl,
thereon, and suing and being sued il
her own name: Prouided, after sucl
| judgment the husband shall not be liabl
upon any contract so made by her in he
own name, or for any tort thereafte
committed by her.
SEC. s. This act shall not affect an,
rights which may have become vested il
any person at the taking effect hereof
The act entitled can act in relation t.
the interests of husbands in the estat
of their wives" passed February 2S
1916; and the act amendatory thereto
passed February 5, 1916; and the ac
entitled San act securing to married wo
men such personal property as may b
exempt from execution, and also ena
bling them to control their own earnings
and the earnings of their minor childre
in certain cases" passed April Z, Il
1857, are hereby repealed.
/ ED. \. PARROTT,
! Speaker pro tenn. Of the House Of Rep
resentatives.
ROBERT C. KIRK,
! President Of the Senate
! Passed April 3, 1861.