of fraud, after the discovery thereof, actions to enforce a trust or to compel an accounting where a trustee has neglected to discharge his trust, or has repudiated it, or fully performed it, within six years; actions for libel, slander, assault, battery, or false imprisonment, within two years; in actions for the recovery of a balance due upon a mutual, open, and current account, when there have been reciprocal demands between the parties, the cause of the action is deemed to have accrued from the time of the last item proved in the account on either side.

If when cause of action accrues against a person he is out of the State, the action may be commenced within the times herein limited, after he comes into the State; absence from the State after the cause of action has accrued, is not reckoned as part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.

If cause of action arose out of this State, and cannot be maintained by the laws of the place where it arose, by reason of the lapse of time, an action thereon cannot be maintained in this State, except in favor of a citizen thereof, who has had the cause of action from the time it accrued.

Married Women.-All property owned or held by any woman at the time of her marriage, continues to be her separate property thereafter, and any married woman may, during coverture, receive, take, and enjoy property of any and every description, and the rents and profits thereof, free from the control of her husband and from any liability on account of his debts, as fully as if she were unmarried.

A married woman may sue and be sued, and make contracts as if sole; except that no conveyance or contract for the sale of real estate, or of any interest therein, other than mortgages to secure the purchase money of the lands mortgaged, and leases not exceeding three years, shall be valid, unless her husband shall join with her in such con

veyance.

Husband and wife are not liable for each other's debts, except that husband is liable for necessaries furnished his wife where he would be liable at common law.

Married woman's property is responsible for her torts and debts. In relation to all subjects except real estate,

husband and wife may contract with each other and be the agent, the one of the other.

Qualifications for Voting.-Every male citizen of the United States, and persons of mixed white and Indian blood, or of Indian blood who have adopted the language, customs and habits of civilization, and shall have been pronounced, by any District Court in the State, capable of enjoying the rights of citizenship, also, such as have declared intention and shall have resided in the United States for one year, in the State four months, ten days in the district, and is twenty-one years of age. The legislature may provide by law, that any woman of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, may vote at any election for the purpose of choosing officers of schools or upon any measure relating to schools and may also provide that any such woman shall be eligible to hold any office pertaining solely to the management of the schools.

Wills. All persons of the age of twenty-one, including married women, may make wills. Every will must be signed by the testator, or by some person in his presence, by his direction, at the end. It must be attested and subscribed by two or more witnesses in the presence of the testator. Wills are recorded in the office of the Probate Court.

SPECIAL LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI.

Arrest and imprisonment for debt is forbidden by the constitution.

Assignments.-May be made giving preference to one or more creditors. When made to defraud creditors are void. No provision for discharge of debtor is made.

Chattel Mortgages.-Personal property can be mortgaged, and its delivery is not essential to the delivery of the lien. They are recorded or registered as in cases of the conveyance of real estate, and the registry becomes constructive notice to subsequent purchasers. The rules of acknowledgment and record apply.

Descent and Distribution of Property.-Real estate

descends, subject to the wife's dower or the husband's curtesy as follows: To the children; if none, to the brothers and sisters; if none, to the father and mother, or the survivor of either; if none of these living, to the next of kin. When there are no surviving children, or descendants of children, the surviving wife or husband takes the whole estate; if there are children, the surviving parent takes an equal share with them.

Personal property descends in the same way.

Divorce. The plaintiff must have resided in the State one year. Causes: (1) Within prohibited degrees of affinity; (2) impotency; (3) adultery; (4) sentence to the penitentiary; (5) willful and continued desertion for two years; (6) habitual drunkenness; (7) insanity or idiocy at time of marriage; (8) habitual cruel and inhuman treatment marked by personal violence; (9) bigamy.

Executions.-May issue at any time within a year and a day, and, if returned nulla bona, may again issue at any time within seven years from the date of the last preceding issuance. The execution is a lien upon the property of the debtor from the date of its levy by the officer. The first execution received against same defendant to be satisfied first.

Exemptions. Two horses or mules, or one yoke of oxen; two cows and calves, five head of stock-hogs, five sheep, 150 bushels of corn, 300 bundles of fodder, ten bushels of wheat or rice, 200 pounds of meat; one cart or wagon worth $100; one sewing-machine; household and kitchen furniture worth $100; crops while growing are exempt. For persons living in a city, town or village, personal property to the value of $250 is exempt and may be selected by the debtor. Wages to the amount of $100 are exempt. Tools of a mechanic; implements of a farmer necessary for two male laborers; books of a student; wearing apparel; the libraries of attorneys, physicians and ministers; the instruments of surgeons and dentists worth $250; arms and accouterments of a militiaman; globes, books and maps used by teachers; the amount of life insurance policy not exceeding $10,000.

A homestead of a householder with a family, not to exceed $2,000 in value, or a farm of eighty acres in the country, is exempt.

Garnishments,-May be sued out in attachments, and,

upon execution, upon suggestion in writing that the defendant has no sufficient property subject to execution. Interest. The legal rate is six per cent. per annum, but parties may contract for ten per cent. Where more than this is stipulated for, all interest is forfeited on plea of usury.

Judgments. When enrolled in the Circuit Clerk's office, when rendered is a lien from date of rendition, and when enrolled in another county from date of enrollment, upon all property, real and personal, of defendant not exempt by law, the lien continues for seven years. They are not liens except in the counties where enrolled.

Limitations. Open accounts, three years; contracts not under seal, express or implied, bonds, notes, and contracts under seal, six years; judgments and decrees rendered in another State against residents of this State, three years; rendered in this State, seven years; real actions, ten years.

Married Women.-Property of wife acquired in any manner, and at any time, is her own separate estate, and husband and wife may dispose of their separate estates, or sue each other.

Qualifications for Voting.-All male inhabitants of the State who are citizens of the United States, or naturalized, who have resided in the State for six months, in the county one month, and are twenty-one years of age.

Wills. Any person 21 years of age can make a will. If the will is wholly in the handwriting of the testator, no witnesses are required. Every other requires at least two witnesses. Nuncupative wills can only be made during the last sickness of deceased, at his home or residence, for last ten days, except in case of soldiers and marines at sea. Such a will cannot dispose of more than one hundred dollars' worth of property, unless two witnesses prove that deceased called on some person present to bear witness that such was his will. Wills are recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Chancery Court.

SPECIAL LAWS OF MISSOURI.

Arrest.-No arrest for debt under any circumstances. Assignments.-Preferences are not allowed. The assignment must be acknowledged and recorded with the Recorder of Deeds of the county where the debtor resides, with it must be filed an affidavit of the debtor, setting forth the nature and value of his property. Within three days the assignee must give a bond with two sureties in double the value of the property, and within fifteen days he must file an inventory of the property in the clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the county where the debtor resides. The judge appoints two persons to appraise the estate. Within three months after the date of the assignment the assignee must appoint a time and place to hear and allow demands, and four weeks' notice of this must be sent to the creditors. The failure of a notified creditor to present his demand will preclude him from obtaining a share of the property.

Dividends must be declared one month after the allowance of demands.

Chattel Mortgages should be recorded, or the property immediately delivered to the mortgagees and possession retained by the mortgagee, or they will be void as to creditors or purchasers, without actual notice.

Mortgages on stock in trade, where the mortgagor continues in possession, dealing with the goods as his own, are fraudulent and void.

Descent and Distribution of Property.-All the property descends: 1st, to the children and their descendants; if none, then to father, mother, brothers and sisters equally; if none of these are living, then to husband and wife; if neither of these, then to grandparents, uncles and aunts and their descendants in equal shares. If there are no children, the widow takes one-half of the estate. If a child or children, she takes an equal share with them. She is entitled to one-third of realty for life.

Divorce. Is granted for the following causes: (1) Impotency at time of marriage and still continuing; (2) wife