Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-11-28
An act relating to the rights and liabilities
of husband and wife.

An act relating to the rights and liabilities
of husband aud wife.
IL IS hereby enacted, DC.
Sec. /. oeo.lon one OF chapter seventy
one OF the General Statutes Is hereby amend
ed SO as 10 read as follows, viz: w hen any
married man shall leave the State abandoning
nis wIie anu not making sufhci, n provision
Tor her maintenance, or when any married
lnan shall be under guardianship by virtue OF
the laws of thus any other OF the United
States, If the wife is OF The age OF eighteen
years, the Supr, me Court may, on her petit
Llon, authorize her to sell and convey her re-
al estate or any part thereof, and also any
personal estate, which shall at the time have
come to the husband, by reason of the mar
riage, and which may remain In the State un-
dsp posed OF by him.
passage.
Approved Nov. 2, 1866.
An act in relation to the earnings of married
women, and in addition to chapter seventy
one of the General Statutes.
IL as hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. /. henever any married woman
shall be abandoned by her husband, such mar
led woman shall be entitled to her own earn
ings and all the proceeds thereof, and the
same shall be under her sole control, and the
husband shall have no power over the same /;
and the wife may maintain an acton therefor
IN her own name IN the same manner she
could do II sole and unmarried.
Approved Nov. 10. 1866.
An act In addition to section twenty-five,
chapter thirty-three of the General Stat
utes, relating to the attachment of proper
ty by copy.
IL IS hereby en0cted, 5c.
Sec. l. There shall be added to the list oil
personal property, enumerated IN chapter
thin ty three, section twenty-five of the Gener-
al Statutes of Vermont, and subject to ali the
provisions of said chapter, the article OF to-
bacco in the process OF curing.
Sec. 2. TINS act shall take effect from lta
passage.
Approved Nov. Is, 1866.
| An act to amend section thirteen. chapter for
| ty-seyen, of the General Statutes, entitled
- OF Levy OF Execution
Ii IS hereby enacted, &c.
SEQ l. Section thirteen, chapter forty
seven, OF the General Statutes, is hereby 81
amended as to read as follows The following
articles shall be exempt from attachment and
| execution, unless turned out to the officer, to
| be taken on the attachment or execution, by
the debtor, to wit: Such suitable apparel
bedding. tools, arms, and articles OF house
hold furniture, as may be necessary tor up
holding life, one sewing machine kept for use
one COW, the best swine, or the meat OF ont
swine. sheep not exceeding in number ten
and one years. product of said sheep in wool
yarn, or cloth, forage sufficient for keeping
not exceeding ten sheep and one COW through
ore winter, ten cords of frewood, twenty bush
els of potatoes, such military arms aud accou
trements as the debtor is required by law Il
furnish, all growing crops, ten bushels o
grain, one barrel Of dour, three swsfms o
bees and hives together with their produce II
honey, two hundred pounds of sugar, and al
lesteTed gravestones. the Bibles and othe
books used in a family, one pew OF slip IN
meeting house or place of religious worship
live poultry not exceeding in amount or val
ue the sum of ten dollars; the professions
books and Instruments OF physicians, and sh
professional books of elergymen and attorney