e ordinances and decrees made by her and the
other commissions of sewers are not to be impeached for that
cause of her sex.

And it is said by a recent writer:

Even at present in England the idea of women holding
official station is not so strange as in the United States.
The Countess of Pembroke had the office of sheriff of
Westmoreland and exercised it in person. At the assizes she
sat with the judges on the bench. In a reported case it is
stated by counsel and assented to by the court that a woman
is capable of serving in almost all the offices of the
kingdom.

As to the right of women to vote by the common law of England,
the authorities are clear. In the English Law Magazine for
1868-'69, vol. 26, page 120, will be found reported the case of
the application of JANE ALLEN, who claimed to be entered upon the
list of voters of the Parish of St. Giles, under the reform act
of 1867, which act provides as follows: Every man shall, in and
after the year 1868, be entitled to be registered as a voter, and
when registered to vote for a member or members to serve in
Parliament, who is qualified as follows: 1st. Is of full age and
not subject to any legal incapacity, etc., etc. It was decided by
the court that the claimant had the right to be registered and to
vote; that by the English law, the term man, as used in that
statute, included woman. In that case the common law of England
upon that question was fully and ably reviewed, and we may be
excused for quoting at some length:

And as to what has been said of there being no such adjudged
cases, I must say that it is perfectly clear that not
perhaps in either of three cases reported by Mr. Shaen, but
in those of Catharine _vs._ Surry, Coates _vs._ Lyle, and
Holt _vs._ Lyle, three cases of somewhat greater antiquity,
the right of women freeholders was allowed by the courts.
These three cases were decided by the judges in the reign of
James I. (A. D. 1612). Although no printed report of them
exists, I find that in the case of Olive _vs._ Ingraham,
they were repeatedly cited by the lord Chief Justice of the
King's Bench in the course of four great arguments in that
case, the cas