Note 139 — Chapter XXXI
Reading edition
This act, so brief and so expressive, is worthy to be remembered. It simply reads: "Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Sec. 1. No person shall be deemed ineligible to serve upon a school committee by reason of sex.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. (Approved June 30, 1874.)
By force of habit, the legislature said not a word in the law about women. There are now (1885) 102 women members of school-boards in Massachusetts.