o him, and
shall state where he was naturalized, shall be accepted by
the registering officer, and duly registered as a qualified
voter.

It is claimed, therefore, that the defendant was justified in
refusing to register the plaintiff on account of her sex. The
plaintiff, however, denies the validity of this clause of the
Missouri Constitution, and the registration act based thereon,
and contends that they are in violation of, and repugnant to, the
Constitution of the United States, and particularly to those
articles and clauses thereof which she has specified in her
petition.

It is admitted, by the pleadings, that the plaintiff is a
native-born, free white citizen of the United States and of the
State of Missouri; that the defendant is a Registrar, qualified
and acting as such; that the plaintiff, in proper time and in
proper form made application to him to be registered, and that
the defendant refused to register the plaintiff solely for the
reason that she is a female (and that she possesses the
qualifications of an elector, in all respects, except as to the
matter of sex, as before stated).

The question is thus broadly presented of a conflict between the
Constitution of the State of Missouri and that of the United
States, as contemplated by the twenty-fifth section of the
judiciary act of 1789, and the supplemental act of February 5,
1867.

ASSIGNMENT OF ERRORS.--And now comes Virginia L. Minor, the
plaintiff in error in the above entitled cause, by her attorneys,
John B. Henderson, John M. Krum, and Francis Minor, and says that
in the records and proceedings in the above entitled cause, in
said Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, there is manifest
error in this, to wit:

1st. Because the said Supreme Court erred in affirming the
judgment of the St. Louis Circuit Court--thereby, in effect,
sustaining the demurrer filed in said Circuit Court by the
defendant to the petition of the plaintiff.

2d. Because the said Supreme Court erred in its judgment
affirming the judgment of the St. Louis Circuit
Court--thereby, in effect, declaring that the plaintiff in
error was not entitled to vote at the election mentioned in
the record.

3. Because