elation ceases, be permitted to reveal in testimony
any such communication made while the marriage subsisted. [Sec.4892.]

[Sidenote: Women eligible to office.]

Women are eligible to all school offices in the state, including those
of county superintendent and school director. [Sec.Sec.2828, 2829.]

No person shall be disqualified for holding the office of county
recorder on account of sex. [Sec.471.]

[Sidenote: Police matrons.]

Mayors of all cities having a population of twenty-five thousand or
more, are authorized, by act of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly to
appoint police matrons to take charge of all women and children confined
at police stations. They are to search the persons of such women and
children, accompany them to court, and "give them such comfort as may be
in their power." No woman is eligible to this office who is under thirty
years of age. She must be of good moral character, and sound physical
health. Her application must be endorsed by at least ten women of good
standing and residents of the city in which such appointment is made.
When appointed she shall hold office until removed by death, resignation
or discharge, but she can be dismissed only after charges have been made
against her conduct and such charges have been investigated. She has the
right to enter work houses where women are confined, at all times. She
shall be subject to the board of police or to the chief of police. Her
salary shall not be less than the minimum paid to patrolmen.

[Sidenote: Right of suffrage.]

In any election hereafter held in any city, incorporated town, or school
district, for the purpose of issuing any bonds for municipal or school
purposes, or for the purpose of borrowing money, or for the purpose of
increasing the tax levy, the right of any citizen to vote shall not be
denied or abridged on account of sex, and women may vote at such
elections, the same as men, under the same qualifications and
restrictions. [Act of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly.]

CHAPTER XII.

CONCLUSION.

[Sidenote: Common law in Iowa.]

[Sidenote: Unmarried women. Property rights.]

[Sidenote: Married women.]

[Sidenote: Law will not protect them.]

The rules of the common law have never prevailed in all their harshness
in Iowa. At the time when the young state was born, public sentiment
already demanded a code more just, and, as before noted, the first law
for the protection or extension of the property righ