exist, by reason of the disability imposed by your married
condition--it being assumed that you are a married woman.

Applications of the same character have occasionally been made by
persons under twenty-one years of age, and have always been
denied upon the same ground that they are not bound by their
contracts, being under a legal disability in that regard.

Until such disability shall be removed by legislation, the court
regards itself powerless to grant your application.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

N. L. FREEMAN.

The applicant, satisfied that under the common law, as modified
by our statutes, she could not properly be denied a license to
practice law solely upon the ground of her married condition, on
the 18th of November filed the following printed argument:

ADDITIONAL BRIEF.

_In the Supreme Court of Illinois_--_Third Grand
Division_--_September Term, 1869._ [In the matter of the
application of Myra Bradwell to obtain a license to practice as
an Attorney-at-law.] And now again comes the said Myra Bradwell,
it having been suggested to her that the court had assumed that
she is a married woman, and therefore queried whether this would
not prevent her from receiving a license, and files this her
additional brief.

Your petitioner admits to your honors that she is a married woman
(although she believes that fact does not appear in the record),
but insists most firmly that under the laws of Illinois it is
neither a crime nor a disqualification to be a married woman.

I propose to state very briefly,

1. What is an attorney?

2. Who may act as attorneys?

3. The rights and powers of married women in relation to their
business and property under the common law.

4. Their rights and powers as to transacting business under the
recent statutes of our State, with reference to their transacting
business in their own names and acting as attorneys.

5. The avenues of trade and the professions opened to women by
the liberal enactments of the law-makers, and the construction of
the courts.

6. How the Legislature has regarded petitioner with reference to
her rights to carry on business in her own name and act for
herself.

I. WHAT IS AN ATTORNEY?--