Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-03-22
shall consist of Senate and House of Repre-


Sec 2. Senators and Representatives shall
be elected biennially, by the electors in the
respective counties or districts, on the second
Tuesday of October; their term of Office shall
commence on the first day Of january next
thereafter, and continue two years.
Sec 8. Senators and Representatives shall
have resided in their respective counties or
districts, one year next preceding their cleo
tiep, unless they shall have been absent on
the public business of the United States, or
this State.
Sec A. No person holding Office under the
authority of the United States, or any lucra-
tive office under the authority of this State,
shall be eligible to, or have seat in, the Gen
eral Assembly; but this provision shall not
extend to township officers, justices of the
peace, notares public, or officers OF the militia
Sec 5. No person hereafter convicted of
an embezzlement of the public funds shall
hold any office in this State; nor shall any
person, holding public money for disburse-
ment or otherwise, have a seat in the General
Assembly, until he shall have accounted for
and paid such money in to the Tresury.
Sec. 6. Each House shall be Judge of the
election, returns, and qualifications of its own
members; majority of all the members elect
ed to each House, shall be a quorum to do
business; but, a less number may adjourn from
day to day, and compel the attendance of ab-
sent members, in such manner and under
such penalties, as shall be prescribed by law.
Sec. Z. The mode of organizing the House
of Representatives at the commencement of
each regular session. shall be prescribed by
law.
Sec. 8. Each House, except as otherwise
provided in this Constitution, shall choose its
own officers, may determine its own rules of
proceedings, punish its members for disorder
ly conduct; and, with the concurrence of two
thirds expel member, but not the second
time for the same cause and, shall have all
other powers necessary to provide for its safe
ty, and the undisturbed transaction of its bu-
sincss.
Sec. 9. Each House shall keep correct
journal of its proceedings, which shall bepub-
lished. At the desire of any two members,
the yeas and nays shall be entered upon the
journal; and on the passage of every bill, in
either House, the vote shall be taken by yeas
and nays, and entered upon the Journal; and
no law shall be passed in either House with
out the concurrence of a majority of all the
members elected thereto.
Sec. ! o. Any member of either House
shall have the right to protest against any act
OF resolution thereof; and such protest, and
the reason therefor, shall, without alteration
commitment, or delay, be entered upon the
Journal
Sec. IL. All vacancies which may happen
in either House shall, for the unexpired term
be filed by election, as shall be directed by
law.
Sec. II. Senators and Representatives du-
ring the session of The General Assembly, and
in going to and returning from the same, shall
be pricileged from arrest in all cases, except
treason, felony, or breach of the peace; and
for any speech, or debate, in either House,
they shall not be questioned elsewhere.
Sec. ID. The proceedings of both Houses
shall be public, except in cases which, in the
opinion of two-thirds of those present. require
secresy.
Sec. IA. Neither House shall, without the
consent of the other, adjourn for more than
two days, Sundays excluded; nor 10 any other
place than that in which the two Houses shall
be in session.
! Sec. Is. Bills may originate in either House
but may be altered, amended, or rejected in
the other.
Sec. l6. Every bill shall be fully and dis
tnctly read, on three different days, unless,
in case OF urgency, three-fourths of the House
in which il shall be pending. shall dispense
with this rule. No bill shall contain more
than one subject, which shall be clearly ex-
pressed in its title; and no law shall be reviv-
ed, or amended, unless the new act contain
the entire act revived, or the section or sec
tions amended; and the section, or sections, SC
amended, shall be repealed.
Sec. II. The presiding officer of each House
shall sign, publicly in the presence of the
House over which he presides, while the same
is in session, and capable of transacting bust
ness, all bills and joint resolutions passed BY
the General Assembly.
Sec 8. The style of the laws Of this State
shall be. BE it enncted By the General Assem-
JLy of the State Of Ohio
Sec 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 this State
which shall be created, or the emoluments Of
which shall have been increased during the
term for which he shall have been elected
Sec 20. The General Assembly, in cases
not provided for in this Constitution, shall fix
Jhe term OF ounce, ana I1e compensation OF ?l
officers; but no change therein shall affect the
salary of anv officer during his existing term
unless the office be abolished ~
Sec q. The General Assembly shall de.
termine, BY law. before what authority. and in
what manner, the trial Of contested elections
shall be conducted.
Sec %. No money shall be drawn from
the treasury, except in pursuance of specific
appropriation. made by law, and no appropri-
alton shall be made 70. longer period than
two years.
Sec. o. The House of Representatives
shall have the sole power of impeachment. but
majority of the members elected must con-
cur therein. Impeacl1mcnts shall be tried bv
the Senate; and the Senators. when sitting
for that purpose, shall be upon oath or affirm
alton to do justice according to law and evi,
denee, No person shall be convicted without
the concurrence of two-thirds of the senators
Sec, "a. The Governor, Judges, and al
State officers may be impeached for anv mis-.
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