read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Indiana:
That in cases where the guardian of any person of unsound
mind, under the direction of any court of competent
jurisdiction has made, or may hereafter make, sale of any
lands of such person of unsound mind, the wife of such
person of unsound mind may by her separate deed release and
convey all her interest in and title to such land, and her
deed so made shall thereafter debar her from all claim to
such land, and shall have the same effect on her rights as
if her husband had been of sound mind and she had joined
with such husband in the execution of such conveyance.

In 1869, an act passed by the legislature of 1852, providing for
the settlement of a decedent's estate, was so amended as to
provide that the widow might select articles to the value of
$500, or receive the first $500 derived from the sale, or in case
it was worth no more than $500, might hold it. In 1871 the
amendment of 1869 was further amended so that in case the
personal property was less than $500 the deficit could be a lien
on the real estate, to be settled with other judgments and
mortgages.

In 1873 the possible ability of women to serve the State
officially was recognized by the passage of the following bill:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Indiana:
That women are hereby declared to be eligible to any office,
the election to which is or shall be vested in the General
Assembly of this State; or the appointment to which is or
shall be vested in the governor thereof.

SEC. 2. The foregoing shall not include women who shall
labor under any disability which may prevent them from
binding themselves by an official bond.

The legislature of 1873 also passed an act regulating the liquor
traffic, in which it is formally provided that a wife shall have
the same right to sue, to control the suit, and to control the
sum recovered by the suit, as a _feme sole_.

In 1875 an act passed the General Assembly making it impossible
to sell real property in which a woman has, by virtue of her
marriage; an inchoate right, for less than four-ninths of its
appraised value: and also providi