the Select
Committee on the bill entitled '(as above)', which report was
agreed to, and the bill ordered to a third reading."

March 29th, p. 443. The bill entitled "(as above)" was read the
third time, and passed--ayes, 23; nays, 1, as follows:

_Ayes_--Messrs. Betts, Bond, Brownson, Burch, Coffin, Cole, Cook,
Cornwell, Fine, Floyd, Fox, Fuller, Geddes, S. H. P. Hall,
Hawley, Johnson, Lawrence, Little, Martin, Smith, Wallon, Wilkin,
Williams, 23.

_Nays_--Clark, 1.

April 7th, p. 541. The bill was returned from the Assembly with
its concurrence.

Its history in the Assembly (_see its Journal_):

March 29th, p. 966. A message from the Senate, requesting the
concurrence of the Assembly to "An Act for the more effectual
protection of the property of married women." On motion of Mr.
Campbell, the bill was sent to a Committee consisting of Messrs.
Campbell, Brigham, Myers, Coe, and Crocker, to report complete
(_see page_ 967).

April 1st, page 1025. Mr. Campbell reported in favor of its
passage, p. 1026. Report agreed to by the House.

April 6, p. 1129. Mr. Collins moved to recommit to a Select
Committee for amendment. His motion failed, and the bill passed
(p. 1130). Ayes, 93. Nays, 9.

The Governor put his name to the bill and thus it became a law.

Please reply to me and let me know whether I have made this
matter clear to you.

Very respectfully,
GEO. GEDDES.

When the first bill was introduced by Judge Hertell in 1836, he made a
very elaborate argument in its favor, covering all objections, and
showing the incontestable justice of the measure. Being too voluminous
for a newspaper report it was published in pamphlet form. His wife,
Barbara Amelia Hertell, dying a few years since, by her will left a
sum for the republication of this exhaustive argument, thus keeping
the memory of her husband green in the hearts of his countrywomen, and
expressing her own high appreciation of its value.

Step by step the Middle and New England States began to modify their
laws, but the Western States, in their Constitutions, were liberal in
starting. Thus the discussions in the constitutional convention and
the Legislature, heralded by the press to every school district,
culminated at last in a woman's rights convention.