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An Act for the preservation and protection of the rights and property of married women. 1846 38 (1846)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0070 and id is 1 raw text is: An act for the preservation and protection of the rights and property S. 4of married women. SECTION 1. Of what property, a married woman may becorne sei2!e4 in her own right. 2. Secures to women, who may hereaf. ter marry, a separate property in such slaves and their increase as they may bripg With them. 3. Allows to maried women a like pro- perty and control over all slaves they may hereafter become entitled to in their own right. 4. The husband to manage such slaves, and to receive and enicy the pro. ceeds of their labor, during khe coverture; but suit to be conductqd Sr.cttoN for them in the joint names of hus. band and wife. 5. The tit le to such slaves transferred in the same manner that Real Estate now is. 6. Slaves which have been brought to the husband by the wife, not liable for debts contracted hereafter.- Maintains the right of the hdsband to dispose of them as formerly. 7. What is, required, before a married woman 6aderive any benefitfrom this act. 8. This act not to interfere with the col. . lection of debts already incurred. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That any married voman may become seized and pos- sessed of any property, real or personal, by direct bequest, demise, gift or distribution in her own right and name and as of her own property; ProvideJ, the same does not come from the husband after coverture. SEC. 2. That hereafter when any woman possessed of a property in slaves shall marry, her property in such slaves and their natural increase shall continue to her, notwithstanding her coverture, and she shall have, hold and possess the same as her separate property, exempt from any liability for the debts or contracts of the husband. SEC. 3. That when Any woman during coverture shall become entitled to or possessed of slaves by conveyance, gift, inheritance, or distribution, such slaves, together with their natural increase, shall inure and belong to the wife in like manner as is above pro- vided as to-slaves which she may possess at the time of marriage. SEC. 4. That the control and management of all such slaves, the direction of their labor, and the receipt of the production thereof, shall remain to the husband agreeably to the laws heretofore in force ; and all sits to recover the property or possession-of such slaves shall be prosecuted and defended, as the case may be, in the joint nam6s of the husband and wife. SEc. 5. That the slaves owned by a feme covert, under the pro- visions of this zet may be sold by the joint deed of husbaud and wife, executed, proved, and recorded, agreeably 1o the laws now in force in regard to the conveyaince of the Real Estate of fene* coverts and not otherwise. SEC. 6. That all slaves which may have heretofore come to the husband through the wife shall not be subject to any liability for the debts of the husband hereafter to be contracted; Provided, however, that nothing in this sef-tion contained shall be so c.onstrued

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