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other vessels, or in any hospital, infirmarj^, dispensary, or
lying-in hospital, not supported wholly by voluntary contributions,
or in any lunatic asylum, gaol, penitentiary,
house of correction, house of industry, parochial or union
workhouse, or poor-house, parish-union, or other public
establishment, body, or institution, or to any friendly or
other society for affording mutual relief in sickness, infirmity,
or old age, or as a medical officer of health, unless
he be registered under this Act : Provided always, that
nothing in this Act contained shall extend to repeal or
alter any of the provisions of the Passengers Act, 1855.
33 & 34 YICT. Cap. 93.
An Act to amend the Laiv relating to the Property of Married
Women.
[9th August, 1870.]
5. As to a married woman’s property in a society.—Any
married woman, or any woman about to be married, may
apply in writing to the committee of management of any
industrial and provident society, or to the trustees of any
friendly society, benefit building society, or loan society,
duly registered, certified, or enrolled under the Acts relating
to such societies respective^, that any share, benefit, debenture,
right, or claim whatsoever in, to, or upon the funds of
such society, to the holding of which share, benefit, or
debenture no liability is attached, and to which the woman
so applying is entitled, may be entered in the books of the
society in the name or intended name of the woman as a
married woman entitled to her separate use, and it shall be
the duty of such committee or trustees to cause the same to
be so entered, and thereupon such share, benefit, debenture,
right, or claim shall be deemed to be the separate property
of such woman, and shall be transferable and payable with
all dividends and profits thereon as if she were an unmarried
woman ; provided that if any such share, benefit, debenture,
right, or claim has been obtained by a married woman
by means of moneys of her husband without his consent,
