Tex. A 10, S 5; Utah A 12, S 13; Wash. A 12, S 16; W. Va. A 11,
S 11.

No Ohio provision.

Ill. A 11, S 10. The rolling stock and all other movable property belonging to any railroad company or corporation in this state, shall be considered personal property, and shall be liable to execution and sale in the same manner as the personal property of individuals, and the general assembly shall pass no law exempting any such property from execution and sale.

Similar provisions:

Ark. A 17, S 11; Ky. S 212; Miss. A 7, S 185; Mo. A 12, S 16; Neb. A 11,
S 2; Okla. A 9, S 7; S. Dak. A 17, S 13; Tex. A 10, S 4; Utah A 12, S 14;
Wash. A 12, S 17; W. Va. A 11, S 8.

XV.

I. RIGHTS OF WOMEN.

Wyoming A 6, S 1. The rights of citizens of the state of Wy- 1. Rights of

oming to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and female citizens of this state shall equally enjoy all civil, political and religious rights and privileges.

No Ohio provision.

(1) Similar provisions in constitutions of the following states: Utah A 4, S 1; Kan. A 5, S 8 (submitted and pending).

(2) Equal franchise rights of women specifically provided for in
constitutions of the following states:

Cal. A 2, S 1; Idaho A 6, S 2; Nev. A 2, S 1 (submitted and pending);
Wash. A 6, S 1.

(3) Authority is granted to the legislature to extend the right of
franchise by the constitutions of the following states:

Colo. A 7, S 2; N. Dak. A 5, S 122.

(4) Women may vote at school elections held solely for school purposes:

Minn. A 7, S 8; S. Dak. A 7, S 9.

Arizona A 7, S 8. Qualifications for voters at school elections shall be as are now, or as may hereafter be, provided by law. New Mexico A 7, S 1. Every male citizen of the United States, who is over the age of twenty-one years, and has resided in New Mexico twelve months, in the county ninety days, and in the precinct in which he offers to vote thirty days, next preceding the election, except idiots, insane persons, persons convicted of a felonious or infamous crime, unless restored to political rights, and Indians not taxed, shall be qualified to vote at all elections for public officers. All school elections shall be held at different times from other elections. Women possessing the qualifications. prescribed in this section for male electors shall be qualified electors at all such school elections; provided, that if a majority of the qualified voters of any school district shall, not less than thirty days before any school election, present a petition to the board of county commissioners against woman suffrage in such district, the provisions of this section relating to woman suffrage shall be suspended therein, and such provision shall become again operative only upon the filing with said board of a petition signed by a majority of the qualified voters favoring the restoration thereof. The board of county commissioners shall certify the suspension or restoration of such suffrage to the proper school district. The legislature shall have the power to require the registration of the qualified electors as a requisite for voting, and

Suffrage and to hold office.

shall regulate the manner, time and places of voting. The legislature shall enact such laws as will secure the secrecy of the ballot, the purity of elections, and guard against the abuse of elective franchise. Not more than two members of the board of registration and not more than two judges shall belong to the same political party at the time of their appointment.

Oklahoma A 3, S 3. Unless otherwise provided by law, all female citizens of this state, possessing like qualifications of male electors, shall be qualified to vote at school district elections or meetings.

(5) Women eligible to certain offices:

(a) School offices.

Minn. A 7, S 8; S. Dak. A 7, S 9.

Pennsylvania A 10, S 3. Women twenty-one years of age and upwards shall be eligible to any office of control or management under the school laws of this state.

(b) Office of Notary Public and such others as provided by legislature:

New Mexico A 20, S II. Women may hold the office of notary public and such other appointive offices as may be provided by law.

Oklahoma, Schedule, S 6. The appointments of female
persons as notaries public, heretofore made by the Governor
of Oklahoma, and by the United States courts for the Indian
Territory, and by the judges of said courts, are hereby con-
firmed and made valid, and all official acts of such notaries.
public heretofore performed are hereby validated in so far
as the acts of such notaries public may be affected by any
ineligibility of such persons to appointment as notaries public.
Female persons possessing the other qualifications prescribed
by law, shall be eligible to the office of notarv Dublic and
of County Superintendent of Public Instruction.

(c) Office of State Librarian. Miss. A 4, S 106.
(1) The property rights of women identical to those of men:
Miss. A 4, S 94; Cal. A 20, S 8.

(2) Married women's property both real and personal shall be and
remain their separate estate and free from husband's control:
Alabama A 10, S 2c9. The real and personal property of any
female in this state, acquired before marriage, and all property,
real and personal, to which she may afterwards be entitled by
gift, grant, inheritance or devise, shall be and remain the sep-
arate estate and property of such female, and shall not be able
for any debts, obligations or engagements of her husband, and
may be devised or bequeathed by her, the same as if she were
a femme sole.

Ark. A 9, S 7;

Fla. A 11, S 1 & 2; Ga. A 3, S 11; Kan. A 15, S 6; Nev. A 4, S 31; N. C. A 10, S 6; N. Dak. A 17, S 213. Oregon A 15, S 5. The property and pecuniary rights of every married woman at the time of marriage, or afterwards acquired by gift, devise or inheritance, shall not be subject to the debts or contracts of the husband; and laws shall be passed providing for the registration of the wife's separate property.

S. C. A 17, S 9; S. Dak. A 21, S 5.

Texas A 16, S 15. All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterward by gift, devise or descent, shall be her separate property; and laws shall be passed more clearly defining the rights of the wife in relation as well to her separate property as that held in common with her husband. Laws shall also be passed providing for the registration of the wife's separate property.

Utah A 22, S 2.

(2) (a) Legislature authorized to provide for protection of women in ownership and possession of property.

Kan. A 15, S 6; W. Va. A 6, S 49.

(3) Property of the wife shall be protected from the debts of her husband:

Md. A 3, S 43.

(4) Right of wife in husband's homestead:

(a) Homestead exemptions enure to benefit to widow:

Fla. A 10, S 2; Kan. A 15, S 9; Nev. A 4, S 30; N. C. A 10, S 5; Tenn. A 11, S 11; Wyo. A 19, S 1.

Oklahoma A 12, S 2. The homestead of the family shall be and is hereby protected from forced sale for the payment of debts, except for the purchase money therefor or a part of such purchase money, the taxes due thereon, or for work and material used in constructing improvements thereon; nor shall the owner, if married, sell the homestead without the consent of his or her spouse, given in such manner as may be prescribed by law: Provided, Nothing in this article shall prohibit any person from mortgaging his homestead, the spouse, if any, joining therein; nor prevent the sale thereof on foreclosure to satisfy any mortgage.

Texas A 16, S 50 and 52. The homestead of a family shall be and is hereby protected from forced sale, for the payment of all debts except for the purchase money thereof, or a part of such purchase money, the taxes due thereon,. or for work and material used in constructing improvements. thereon, and in this last case only when the work and material are contracted for in writing, with the consent of the wife given in the same manner as is required in making a.

3. Right to Pursue Vocation.

sale and conveyance of the homestead, nor shall the owner, if a married man, sell the homestead without the consent of the wife, given in such manner as may be prescribed by law. No mortgage, trust deed or other lien on the homestead shall ever be valid, except for the purchase money therefor, or improvements made thereon, as hereinbefore provided, whether such mortgage or trust deed or other lien shall have been created by the husband alone or together with his wife; and all pretended sales of the homestead involving any condition of defeasance shall be void. On the death of the husband or wife, or both, the homestead shall descend and vest in like manner as other real property of the deceased, and shall be governed by the same laws of descent and distribution, but it shall not be partitioned among the heirs of the deceased during the lifetime of the surviving husband or wife, or so long as the survivor may elect to use or occupy the same as a homestead, or so long as the guardian of the minor children of the deceased may be permitted, under the order of the proper court having jurisdiction, to use and occupy the same.

Michigan A 14, S 2, 3, 4. Every homestead of not exceeding forty acres of land and the dwelling house thereon and the appurtenances to be selected by the owner thereof, and not included in any town plat, city or village; or instead thereof, at the option of the owner, any lot in any city, village, or recorded town plat, or such parts of lots as shall be equal thereto, and the dwelling house thereon and its appurtenances, owned and occupied by any resident of the state, not exceeding in value fifteen hundred dollars, shall 'be exempt from forced sale on execution or any other final process from a court. Such exemption shall not extend to any mortgage thereon, lawfully obtained, but such mortgage or other alienation of such land by the owner thereof. if a married man shall not be valid without the signature of his wife to the same. The homestead of a family. after the death of the owner thereof shall be exempt from the payment of his debts in all cases during the minority of his children. If the owner of a homestead die, leaving a widow but no children, such homestead shall be exempt, and the rents and profits thereof shall accrue to her benefit during the time of her widowhood, unless she be the owner of a homestead in her own right.

(1) No person shall, on account of sex, be disqualified from enter-
ing or pursuing any lawful business, vocation or profession:
Cal. A 20, S 18.