marriage, be and remain during
coverture, her sole and separate property, under her sole
control, and be held, owned, possessed and enjoyed by her,
the same as though she were sole and unmarried, and shall
not be subject to the disposal, control or interference of
her husband, and shall be exempt from execution or
attachment for the debts of her husband.

SEC. 2. Any married woman may bargain, sell, and convey, her
personal property, and enter into any contract in reference
to the same, as if she were _sole_.

SEC. 3. Any woman may, while married, sue and be sued in all
matters having relation to her property, person or
reputation, in the same manner as if she were _sole_.

SEC. 4. Any married woman may, while married, make a will
the same as though she were _sole_.

SEC. 5. Any married woman may carry on any trade or
business, and perform any labor or service on her sole and
separate account, and the earnings of any married woman from
her trade, business, labor or services, shall be her sole
and separate property, and may be used and invested by her
in her own name; and she may sue and be sued, as if _sole_,
in regard to her trade, business, labor, services, and
earnings. * * *

SEC. 9. The separate deed of the husband shall convey no
interest in the wife's lands.

Under the statute for distributions, the wife is treated exactly
as the husband is; each having the same right in the estate of
the other. The provisions are so unusual and peculiar, that I
venture to copy some of them:

* * * * If such intestate leave a husband or wife, _and_
children, him or her surviving, one-half of such estate
shall descend to such surviving husband or wife, and the
residue thereof * * * * to the children; if such intestate
leave a husband or wife and _no_ child, * * * * then the
property shall descend as follows, to wit: three-fourths
thereof to such remaining husband or wife, and one-fourth
thereof to the father and mother of the intestate, or the
survivor of them; provided that if the estate of such
intestate, real and personal, does not exceed in volume the
sum