Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-08-06
EGAL
PROPOSED
AMENDMENTS.

ResoIred By the General Assembly Of the State Of
Ohio, Three-hfths of the members elected TO each
House coneurring therein. That II Re and hereby Is
proposed the electors of this State to vote on the
second Tuesday of October next uron the approval or
rejection ofthe following amendment as substitute
for the twenty- FIJI Section of the second Article OF
the Constitution and for the second Section of the
AT Gle and for the third Section OF the eleventh
Article. viz: All regular sessions of the General As
se,nby shall commence the first Monday of Janu-
ary annually Senators shall be elected biennially.
and Representatives annually by the electors OF their
respective unties DISTRICTS on the second Tues
of October. Their terms Of Office shall commence on
the first day of January after their election, and
that Senators sha II continue two years and that OF
Ret resentatives one year. The Senators elected in
October next shall hold their Offices for two years. and
the Representa- lives elected d. the same time shall
hold their offices for one year. Provided, that seven
teen of the Senator'S elected the second Tuesday Of
October 1857 be ascertained by lot, as the Pres
dent of the Senate may direct. shall hold their ofce
for only year. and their successors sha he ected
the second Tuesday nf OCTOBER one Thousand eght
hundred and ffty-eght ana biennally the Teafter--
When any county shall have fraction above the
rates for Representative large that being multiplied
by en result shall be equal to one or more ratios
dtioual Representatives shall be appointed for such
among the several sessions Of the peri
cd in the following manner: If there be only one
ratio tha Representative shall be ALLOTTED 10 The
tenth session of the decenn ial period.
Iftheir ratios Representatives snail be al
lotied the ninth and tenth sessions three TO the
eighth inih and tenth sessions; If four to The sew
enth eighth, ninth and tenth; lfhve 10 sixth, sew
enth eighth, ninth and tenth IL sixto the htth sixth
fifth, sixth seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth; eght
10 the third fourth th SIXTH seventh, eighth. ninth
and tenth; II nine TO the second third, fourth. fifth
SIXTH seventh eight, ninth and tenth sessions of the
decennial period respectively
In determining tine number of Senators to which
anv senatorial district might be entitled in any decen
NAL period by of any fraction of senatorial
ratio the traction shall be multiplied by five, and .
the result he equal 10 one senatorial RATIO an add
tonaI Senator shall he allotted to sad district for tt
ninth and tenth sessions. II il be equal to two suci
ratios an additional Senator for the seventh, eighth
nlh and tenth sessions sha be allotted to such dis
trict three then the th sixth, seventh, eighth
| ninth ana tenth.
Iffour TO the third. fourth fith, sixth, seventh
eighth ninth and tenth sessions respectively Hthr
amendment he adopted by the electors, the Countie
Low entitled TO more Than one member III either o.
boti ranches of the Leg gislature IN the fourth an'
fifth sessions of the present ecennlal period as nov
provided. shall have like number of members II
each branch thereof for each session the remade
| OIthe present decennial period.
| n. II. VAN WORRIES,
| Speaker Of tAe Hoase Of Representatives,.
THOMAS II. FORD,
President Of the Senate.