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 498 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 786. 1900. the name of a_person except a woman upon her marriage or divorce, shall be made in the district unless for sufficient reasons not inconsis- _ tent with the public interest and satisfactory to the court. PF°¢°°d*¤8¤ 0** **1* Sec. 33. Before adjudging a change of name, except as tprovided in plication. . . . . . section forty-nine, the court shall require public not1ce o the application therefor to be given, that all persons may offer and show cause, if they have any, why the same should not be granted. The court shall also require public notice to be given of the chancge adjudged. and on return of proof thereof may grant certificate, un er the seal of the court, of the name the party is to have, and which shall thereafter be his legal name. _, { CHAPTER Six. OF THE AGE OF MAJORITY. Sec. · Sec. 34. Majority of males and females. * 35. Marriage of females equivalent to • majority. _n§?g;§{,S_°f males Sec. 34. v In the district all persons shall be deemed to have arrived at majority at the age of twenty-one years, and thereafter shall have control of their own actions and business, and have all the rights and be subject to all the liabilities of citizens of full age. M¤"i¤8€ °**°¤¤!J°¤ Sec. 35. All female persons shall be deemed to have arrived at the . equivalent to major- . . . . . . ny. age of majomty upon the1r being married according to law. CHAPTER SEVEN. OF ESTATES IN DOWER. Sec. Sec. 36. Dower of widow. 47. When widow deemed to have elected. 37. When dower shall be assigned by the 48. When widow to be endowed anew. district court. 49. Alien or nonresident entitled to dower. 38. Warrant for assignment of dower. 50. Widow may remain in dwelling house 39. Proceedings and warrant of commis- one year. sioner. 51. Damages for withholding dower. 40. When property can not be divided. 52. Damages, how estimate . 41. Widow may occupy with heirs., 53. Not to include use of permanent im- 42. Dower, how barred by jointure. provements. 43. Evidence of assent to jointure. 54. Damages against heirs. — 44. Pecuniary provisionabarto dower. 55. Collus1ve recovery of dower not to 45. When widow may electbetween joint- prejudice infant heirs. ure and dower. I 46. When to elect between devise and dower. [ Dover Ofvidaw- Sec. 36. The widow of every deceased person shall be entitled to dower, or the use during her natural life of one-third part in value of all the lands whereof her husband died seized of an estate of inheritance. b€"'£§S*jgI§g('°,gy_Slj*j}; Sec. 37. When a widow is entitled to dower in the lands of which msmctcoua. her husband died seized, it may be assigned to her by the district court u(pon application of the widow or any other person interested in the lan s; notice of application shall be given to such heirs, devisees, or other persons in suc manner as the court shall direct. ` mgg’g*gg{,f$;,_°“‘g"‘ Sec. 38. For the purpose of assigning! such dower the district court shall direct a warrant to issue to three iscreet and disinterested persons, as commissioners, authorizing and requiring them to set pif the dower bly metes and bounds, when it can be done without injury to the who e estate. __ Pm<‘¤¤di¤¤gS Mid Sec. 39. The commissioners shall be sworn by any officer authorized WHTTKIII of COI11l1llS· • ¤ • •. • . sam. to adm1n1ster`1mpart1ally oaths to discharge their duties, and shall, as soon as may be, set off the dower according to the command of such