MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
The question here arising in regard to the correctness of the decision of the District Court in the case of the married woman depends for its solution upon the construction to be given to the sixth section of the act of Congress of 1884, c. 220, 23 Stat. 115, which is set forth in the margin.
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