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or sections, so amended, shall be repealed.
SEC. IL. The presiding officer of each
House shnll sign, publicly in the presence OF
the House over which he presides, while the
same is in session, aud capable of transact
ing business, all bills and joint resolutions
passed by the General Assembly.
SEC. 1S. The style of the laws OF this
State shall be, :" BE Il enacted By the General
.4Ssembly Qfhe State Of Ohio"
SIC. 10. No Senator or Representative
shall, during the term for which he shall
have been elected, or for one year thereafter,
be appointed to any civil office under TINS
State, which shall be created or the eInol'i-
ments of which, shall have been increased,
during the term, for which he shall have
been elected.
SIC. 20. The General Assembly, in cases
not provided for in this constitution, shall fix
the term of office aud the compensation OF
all oflicers but no change therein shall at
feet the salary of any officer during his exist
ing term, unless the Office he abolished.
SIC. 81 The General Assembly shall de-
termine, by law, before what authority, and
in what manner, the trial of contested cleo
lions shall be conducted
SEC. %. No money shall he drawn from
the treasury, except in pursuance oil spe-
cific appropriation, made by law; and no
appropriation shall he made for longer Pc
riod than two years.
SIC. 90. The House of Representatives
shall have the sole power of impeachment,
but majority of the members elected must
concur therein. Impeachments shall be tri-
ed by the Senate; and the Senators, when
sitting for that purpose, shall be upon oath
or affirmation to do justice according TO law
and evidence. No person shall be convict
cd, without the concurrence Of two-thrds OF
the Senators.
SEC. "a. The Governor, Judges, and all
State officers, may be impeached for any ms
denennor in Office; but Judgment shall not
extend further than removal from office, and
disqualification to hold any office, under the
authority of this State. The party impench-
cd, WHEELER convicted or not, shall he liable
TO indictment, trial, and Judgment, according
10 law.
SIC. 25. All regular sessions of the Cen
eral Assembly shall commence ON the first
Monday of January, biennially. The first
session, under this Constitution, shall com
mence on the first Monday of January, one
thousand eight hundred aud fifiy-two.
SEC. 26. All laws, of general nature,
shall have a uniform operation throughout
the State nor, shall any act, except such as
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effect upon the approval of any other author
ity than the General Assembly, except, as
otherwise provided in this constitution.
SEC. 81. The election and appointment OF
all officers, and the filling of all vacancies,
not otherwise provided for by this consttu-
ton, or the constitution of the United States,
shall he made in such manner as may be di-
rected by law; but no appointing power
shall be exercised by the General Assembly,
except MS prescribed in this constitution, and
in the election of United States Senators; and
in these cases. the vote shall be taken "Uiua
roce."
SEC. %. The General Assembly shall
have no power TO pass retroactive laws, or
laws mparng the obligation of contracts
but may, by general laws, authorize courts to
carry into effect, upon such terms as shall
be Just and equitable, the manifest intention
of parties, and officers, by curing omissions,
defects, and errors, in instruments and pro- !
ceedings, arising out of their want OF conior-
nifty with the laws of this State.
SEC. 90. No extra compensation shall be
made to any officer, public agent, or contrac
tor, after the service shall have been render
ed, or the contract entered into nor, shall
any money be paid, ON any claim, the
subject matter of which shall not have been
provided for by pre-existing law, unless such
compensation, or claim, be allowed by two
thirds of the members elected to each branch
of the General Assembly.
SEC. 80. No new county shall contain
less than four hundred square miles of ter
ritory, nor, shall any county be reduced be-
low that amount and all laws creating new
counties, changing county lines, or reno,
wing county seats, shall, before taking effect,
be submitted to the electors of the several
counties to be affected thereby, at the next
general election after the passage thereof,
and be adopted by majority of all the cleo
tors voting at such election, in each Of said
counties; but any county now or hereafter
containing one hundred thousand inhabi-
tants, may be divided, whenever majority of
the voters, residing in each of the proposed
divisions, shall approve of the law passed for
that purpose; but, no town or city within the
same, shall be divided, nor, shall either of
the divisions contain less than twenty thou
sand Inhabitants.
SEC. 81. The members and officers of the
General Assembly shall receive fixed COM
pensation, TO be prescribed by law, and no
other allowance or perquisites, either in the
payment of postage or otherwise; and 10
change in their compensation shall take ef-
feet during their term of office.
SEC. 80. The General Assembly shall
grant no divorce, nor, exercise any judicial
power, not herein expressly conferred.
ARTICLE Ill.
EXECUTIVE.
SEC. /. The Executive Department shall
consist of Governor, Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State, Auditor Treasurer, and
an Attorney General who shall be chosen
by the electors of the State, on the second
Tuesday of October, and at the places of yo-
ting for members Of the General Assem-