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(4) Property belonging to the wife is not exclusively at the control & disposal of the husband, and in many respects she has exclusive & destinct control over her own particularly among the less civilized & in fact in every class & grade of intelligence the law is in favor of the females in this respect. Rules & customs in the transfer of property are adopted & respected, from the adjoining states in the absence of any law to regulate this branch of our trade. Property descends from parents, equally to the children, if none, to the next relatives, & but if a will is made it is respected to the fullest extent & every person, possessed of property is entitled to dispose of his or her property in this way.

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