St. Anna's Asylum, Managed by Women--Constitutional Convention, 1879--Women Petition--Clara Merrick Guthrie--Petition Referred to Committee on Suffrage--A Hearing Granted--Mrs. Keating--Mrs. Saxon--Mrs. Merrick--Col. John M. Sandige--Efforts of the Women all in Vain--Action in 1885--Gov. McEnery--The _Daily Picayune_--Women as Members of the School Board--Physiology in the Schools--Miss Eliza Rudolph--Mrs. E. J. Nicholson--Judge Merrick's Digest of Laws--Texas--Arkansas--Mississippi--Sarah A. Dorsey 789 CHAPTER LV. (CONTINUED). DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--MARYLAND--DELAWARE--KENTUCKY--TENNESSEE--VIRGINIA--WEST VIRGINIA--NORTH CAROLINA--SOUTH CAROLINA--FLORIDA--ALABAMA--GEORGIA. Secretary Chase--Women in the Government Departments--Myrtilla Miner--Mrs. O'Connor's Tribute--District of Columbia Suffrage Bill--The Universal Franchise Association, 1867--Bill for a Prohibitory Law Presented by Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, 1869--A Bill for Equal Wages for the Women in the Departments, Introduced by Hon. S. M. Arnell, 1870--In 1871 Congress Passed the Organic Act for the District Confining the Right of Suffrage to Males--In 1875 it Withdrew all Legislative Power from the People--Women in Law, Medicine, Journalism and the Charities--Dental College Opened to Women--Mary A. Stewart--The Clay Sisters--The School of Pharmacy--Elizabeth Avery Meriwether--Judge Underwood--Mary Bayard Clarke--Dr. Susan Dimock--Governor Chamberlain--Coffee-Growing--Priscilla Holmes Drake--Alexander H. Stephens 808 CHAPTER LV. (CONCLUDED). CANADA. Miss Phelps of St. Catharines--The Revolt of the Thirteen Colonies--First Parliament--Property Rights of Married Women--School Suffrage Thirty Years--Municipal Suffrage, 1882, 1884--Women Voting in Toronto, 1886--Mrs. Curzon--Dr. Emily H. Stone--Woman's Literary Club of Toronto--Nova Scotia--New Brunswick--Miss Harriet Stewart 831 CHAPTER LVI. GREAT BRITAIN.