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l2. Enance.-No pol-tax shall ever be levied
Banks and Corporations shall be taxed as high as
individuals according to their property.
80 Corporations Banks 8c--Cities and Villages
shall be organized under general laws. No debt
shall be contracted for purposes Of Internal i'm
provement Compensation for the Right Of Way
must be made or rendered before possession can
be assumed-the amount TO be determined by
Jury.
SEC g. Dues from Corporations shall be secured
by such individual liability Of the stockholders
and other means, as may be prescribed by law;
but in all such cases each stakeholder shall be
liable. over and above the stock by him or her
owned, and any amount unpaid thereon, to fur
Their sum at least equal in amount to such stock.
SEC. 7. No Act Of the General Assembly, au-
thorizing associations with Banking powers, shall
take effect until il shall be submitted to the peo
pie at the general election next succeeding the
passage thereof, and be approved by majority of
all the electors voting at such election
IA. Lam Reform The next Legislature shall
appoint three Commissioner after the manner of
our Practice Commission who under the general
supervision Of the Legislature, shall proceed to
"revise, reform, simplify, and abridge the prac-
tice, pleadings forms, and proceedings OF the
Courts of Record Of this State and as far as
practicable and expedient, shall provide for the
abolition of the distinct forms OF action at law
now in use, and for the administration Of justice
by q uniform mode of proceeding, without refer
ence to any distinction between law and equity"
IS. Miscellaneous State printing must be given
by contract to the lowest bidder. To be q voter
is the only requisition TO qualify for any office,
though holding an Office or having been concerned
henceforthI in duel, will dsqualify, Columbus
shall remain the seat Of Government until the
Legislature shall otherwise direct Bureau
of Statistics may be established Lotteries and
the sale of Lottery Tickets are forever prohibit
ed
16. Amendments--Three-f fths of each House
may hereafter propose Amendments to this Con-
stituton, to be approved or rejected separately
by the People at the next Legislative Election.
Convention may be called in the same manner.
And in 1871, and every twenty years there
after, the question Of Convention or No Conven-
ton shall be submitted to direct vote of the peo-
pie
All laws not inconsistent with this Constitution
continue in force till repealed. A Special Elec-
tion is to be held to vote for or against this Con-
stitution on the third Tuesday in June next. If
it be adopted it takes effect on the first of Sep
TENDER, and Governor and other State officers,
as well as Legislature, Judges Clerks, &c, will
be chosen at the regular Election ensuing-name-
ly, on the second Tuesday in October next.
l6. Rum-At the Constitutional Election in
June, every voter who chooses Will vote License
to sell Intoxicating Liquors" or mo" as he
thinks fit and if No has q majority, the follow
ing shall stand as sec. Of Art. XIV of the New
Constitution
g. No license to traffic in intoxicating liquors
shall hereafter be granted in this State, but the
General Assembly may by law provide against
evils, arising therefromn
We trust the friends of Temperance will take
care that the Noes largely preponderate on this
question.
We have thus made full and careful synopsis
Of the proposed New Constitution Of Ohio. 1t is
grossly wrong In some points, especially the denial
of the Right Of Suffrage to the class most oppres-
sed and in need Of all the protection and support
which the Right Of Voting would secure them;
and it is shamefully unjust and unrepublican in
denying to political mnorities in the larger Couu-
ties the chance Of representation in the Legisla-
ture which perfect Apportonment of the State
into single Senate and Assembly Districts would
insure them. Yet, on the whole, we do not see
that rejecting the Constitution would right these
wrongs, while il would crush some salutarY pro-
visions embodied in the instrument--Lsw Reform,
Liquor Reform, and an Elective judiciary being
among them. So on the whole, we are inclined
to advise its adoption.-Nep York Tribune.