ent, and we do hereby call upon all manly men to
make room for their sisters to earn an independent livelihood.

_Resolved_, That, whereas, the custom of making small
remuneration for woman's work, in all departments of industry,
has sprung from her dependence, which dependence is prolonged and
increased by this most irrational and unjust habit of half pay;
therefore do we demand, in the name of common sense and common
conscience, that women equally with men, should be paid for their
services according to the quality and quantity of the work done,
and not the sex of the worker.

_Resolved_, That, whereas, the State of New York, in the acts of
1848 and 1849, has honorably and justly placed married women on
the footing of equality with unmarried women, in regard to the
receiving, holding, conveying, and devising of all property, real
and personal, we call upon the Legislature of the State to take
the next step--so plainly justified by its own precedents--of
providing that husbands and wives shall be joint owners of their
joint earnings--the community estate passing to the survivor at
the death of either party.

_Resolved_, That, whereas, the evident intent of the Legislature
of the State of New York has for many years been progressively to
do away with the legal disabilities of women, which existed under
the savage usages of the old common law, therefore we do urgently
call upon the Legislature of this State, at its next session, to
appoint a joint committee to examine and revise the statutes, and
to propose remedies for the redress of all legal grievances from
which women now suffer, and suitable measures for the full
establishment of women's legal equality with men.

_Resolved_, That, whereas, under the common law, the father is
regarded as the guardian, by nature, of his children, having the
entire control of their persons and education, while only upon
the death of the father, does the mother become the guardian by
nature; and, whereas, by the revised statutes of New York, it is
provided, that where an estate in lands shall become vested in an
infant, the guardianship of such infant, with the rights, powers,
and duties of a guardian in soccage, shall belong to the father,
and only in case of the father's death, to the mother; and,
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