The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-06-17
PROPOSED CONSTITUTION

AMENnMENT No /

EesolDed by the General Assembly Of the State
Of Ohio, Three-ffths of the members elected
to each House c%oneurring therein, That it be
and hereby is proposed to the electors of this
State to vote on the second Tuesday of Octo-
Der next, upon the approval or rejection of the
following amendment as a substitute for the
|twenty-ffth Section CT the second Article of
the Constitution and for the second Section of
the same Article, and for the third Section of
the eleventh Article, viz: All regular sessions
of the General Assembly shall commence on
the first Monday of January annually. Sena-
tors shall be elected biennially, and Represcn-
~tatives annually, by, the electors of their re-
.spectiye counties or districts on the second
Tuesday Of October. Their term of office shall
commence on the first day of January next
after their election, and that of Senators shall
continue two years, and that of Representa-
tives one year. The Senators elected in Octo-
Der next shall hold their offices for two years,
and the Representatives elected at the same
time shall hold their Offices for one year. Pro-
yided, that seventeen of the Senators elected
on the second Tuesday of October, 1857, to be
ascertained by lot, as the President of the Sem
ate may direct, shall hold their Office for only
one year, and their successors shall be elected
on the second Tuesday of October, one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and bien-
nially thereafter. When any county, shall
have a fraction above the rates for Representa-
tive so large that being multiplied by ten, the
result shall be equal to one or more ratios, adj
ditional Representatives shall be apportioned
for such ratios among the several sessions of
the d~ecennial period in the following manner
If there be only one ratio then a Representa-
tive shall be allotted to the tenth session of
the decennial period I; If there are two ratios
Repi esentativess shall be allotted to the ninth
and tenth sessions; If three to the eighth, ninth
and tenth sessions; If four to the seventh,
eighth, ninth and tenth; If FIVE to the sixth,
seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth; If six to the
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth;
If seven to the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth and tenth; If eight to the thild,
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and
tenth; If nine to the second. third, fourth,
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth
sessions of the decennial period respectively.
In determining the number of Senators to
which any Senatorial district might be entitled
in any decennial period, by reason of any frac-
tion of a Senatorial ratio, the fraction shall be
multiplied by five, and if the result be equal
to one Senatorial ratio, an additional Senator
shall be allotted to said district for the ninth
and tenth sessions. If it be equal to two such
ratios, an additional Senator for the seventh,
eighth, ninth, and tenth sessions shall be al
Looted to such district. If three then to the
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth.
If four, to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth and tenth sessions respectively.
If this amendment be adopted by the electors,
the counties now entitled to more than one
member in either or both branches of the Leg
~islature in the fourth and fifth sessions of the
present decennial period as now provided, shall
have a like number of members in each branch
thereof for each session of the remainder of
the present decennial period.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives,.
THOMAS H.. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.