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206 OUR AMERICAN SISTERS'.
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? We Have Lately Received Froin America ...
gives us _Coj _3 yists . A _$ "Washington , ladies have been employed to ment copy , documents not only for and Congress received -men the as individuals same salaries , but as to men copy . Two Govern such
-, to receive 600 salaries dollars a of winter 1 , 200 , dollars copying per 1 speeches annum and , * others other mak documents e from 500 for similarl
the members . In Cincinnati and in New York ladies are y c employed ing * for , and which Mrs . she 1 ST- estimates , of the her latter time at cit nine y , besides cents an regular hour ,
also opy writes , letters in English for the numerous foreigners of that commercial resortand receives twenty-five cents a letter , usually of
, one In page the and a of half Editresses . we find there are several publications way
in the United States conducted exclusively by ladies ; but no details prise of salaries include are the given names . " of Government Miss Wallace Officers and , " Miss rather Thomas to our who
surwere , employed as computers on the Coast Survey at "Washington , , in 1854 with salaries each of 480 dollars , and perquisites , making
them , 600 dollars . A Mrs . Miller was at one time engaged in making observations of the weatherthe thermometerbarometer ,
, , direction of winds , quantity of rain falling , & c . During Mr . Fillmore's administrationtwo women wrote for the Treasury
Dethe p dollars artment United a-year at States Washington . Several for copy , ladies , at ing salaries deeds are of , emp of but the twelve loyed the Eastern maj in and ority different State fifteen are howev relatives hundred parts of
of other the ladies registrars who . are In not some relatives towns , are employed , at a dollar s , a day er , . Miss Olive , [ Rose has herself performed the duties of registrar of
deeds at ThomastonMaine . She writes , " I was officially notified the of the exact election amount , required of , salary to as give it is bonds regulated , & e . by I am whatever unable business to state
is done in the office . Perhaps , it may average between 800 and 400 dollars" [ LadLecturers are not unfamiliar in the States ;
and make a . fair livelihood y * some were at one time employed by the State erance Soci , etof New York . In the Mercantile
Library of Temp that city two ladies y act as Librarians ; one receives 200 dollarsthe other 250 dollars per annum . They are employed
ro all om the year The , , A and pprentices spend ' about Library eig in ht Philadel hours a phia day has in the two reading female
librarians . and two assistants of the same sex . The principals receive 308 , dollarsthe assistants 90 dollars each , per annum .
four Th are e emp g hours irls loyed ' library , It is is , open in onl , which ix latel ve afternoons one that of they the in princi hav the e week pals employed , and from assistants a three lady in to
the boys' department . , b ut they y find the change a happy one , as the boys more easilmanagedThe gentleman who has _charg-e
are y . Am of the erica public n ladies Library who do in all Boston the work writes of : a " lib We r emp in its v eleven arious ary
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206 Our American Sisters'.
206 OUR AMERICAN SISTERS ' .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/62/
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