Add this copy of Laws of the Territory of Washington, Enacted By the to cart. $450.00, Sold by Zephyr Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1883 by C.B. Bagley, Public Printer.
Edition:
1883, C.B. Bagley, Public Printer
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Publisher:
C.B. Bagley, Public Printer
Published:
1883
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17310428872
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8vo. 446, [2], xxx (of xxxii) pp. Self-printed softcovers, w/ old creasing and wear to corners, minor dog-earing to pages of first and last couple signatures, light occasional toning & foxing), still G-reference copy, from the library of Bates & Burnett, law firm with William Charles Bates (1885-1973), and Milton L. Burnett (1887-1972), who operated for decades in Vancouver, WA from before World War I, and moved their firm into the Charles Brown historic house in 1945, beginning a local trend of using older homes for professional buildings. First edition of this unusually scarce Washington Territory lawbook offering the printed appearance of the newly passed 1883 law giving women, and Native-American multiracial citizens, the right to vote, becoming one of the first places in the world women could legally vote. The law specifies that "all American citizens above the age of twenty-one years, and all American half-breeds over that age, who have adopted the habits of the whites, and all other inhabitants of this territory, above that age, who shall have declared an oath their intentions to become citizens, at leas six months previous to the day of election, and shall have taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States...shall be entitled to vote." Washington women were subsequently able to vote in the 1884-1886 elections, but through the machinations of Harry Morgan "Boss" gambler of Tacoma--who managed to sponsor a court case whose ruling resulted in women being denied the vote upon statehood in 1889. Another women's Suffrage Act was passed in 1888, but it did not go into effect, and was instead included on the ballot with the new State Constitution. Unfortunately, the new State Constitution passed, but the women's Suffrage Act was voted down. Eventually, with the efforts of a heavily marketed Women's Suffrage Association Cook Book sold at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, with Emma Devoe (1848-1927) President of the Suffrage Association appearing in newspaper articles, and other publicity touting her cooking and housekeeping abilities, and how "there are no better housekeepers in the world than suffragists and their daughters, " the measure passed by a wide margin in 1910. See: Paula Becker, Washington Equal Suffrage Association publishes Washington Women's Cook Book in Seattle in late 1908, HistoryLink Essay 8552 (2008).
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