Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-08-25
RrOpOscd Constitution AIncDd-
AMENDMENT No. !.

nrsoIvsA Ny The General Assembly Of the State Of
Ohio, Threo-fIths Of the members elected to GA ch
proposed to the electors OF this State to vote on the
bccond Tuesday Of October next, upon the approval
nr rejection Of the following amendment substi-
tutc FOR the twcnyfh Section OF the second Article
of the Constitution and for the second Section of te
peme Article, and for the third Section OF the elcvenh
Article, viz: All regular sessions Of the General A.
scuibly shall commence on the first Monday Of Jauu-
nry, annually. Senators shall be elected biennially
and Representatives annually by the electors Of their
respective counties districts the second Tuesday
Of October Their term of Office shall commence on
the hrst day of January next after their election, and
thato Srnators shnll continue two years. and that OF
Representatives one year. Tho Senators elected In
October next shall hold their Offices for two years. md
the Representatives elected at the same time shall
R'ld their Offices for one year. Provided, that sew
ursdny Of October, 1857 to bc ascertancd by lot as
she President Of the Senate may direct, shall hold
their oifcc for only one year. and their succe ssors
tAall he elected on the second Tuesday of October,
one Thousand eight hundred and ffy-cieht, and hcn-
nialy thereafter When any county shnl have frac-
tiOR above the rates for Representative so large
that being multiplied by the result shall be equal
10 "nc more ratios, additional Representatives
shall be apportioned for such ratios among the several
sessions Of tr dccenal period In the following mnn
ncr; If there br only one ratio then Representa-
tive shall he allotted to the tenth session Of the decen-
nial pnriod.
II ihcrc are two ratio Representatives shall be nj
lqtlrd TO the ninth and tenth SO son' II three to the
eighth ninth aud tenth scssions fiour TO the seventh,
eighth. ninth, and tcnh II five to the sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth, and tenh If SIX to the fifth sixth, sew
enth, eighth, NINTH and tenth; II seven to the fourth,
ffh sixth. seventh, eighth, ninth and tcnb If eight
10 the third fourth, NTH, SIXTH seventh eighth, ninth,
rnd tenth; If nine 10 the second third, fourth fifth,
sixth seventh, eighth ninth and tenth sessions of the
dsccnnial period respectively
In determining tho number Of Senators to which
any senatorial district might be entitled in any de-
ccnnial period, by rrnson of any fraction Of senate
rial ratio, the fraction shall be multiplied by Ave. md
IL the result be equal to senatorial ratio, mn ad
dtional Senator shall be allotted TO said district for
the ninth and tenth sessions. If II be equal to two
such altos additional Senator for the seventh.
eighth. ninth, and tenth sessions shall be allowed to
such district. If three then to the fifth, SIXTH seventh,
eighth, ninth, and tenth.
If -four. to tho third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
eighth. NINTH 2nd tenth sessions respectively IT this
amendment be adopted by the electors, the counties
now entitled to more than one member In either or
both branches Of the Legislature in the fourth and Nth
scasons Of the present decennia period as now pro-
vIded shall have like number Of members in each
branch thcrcoffor each session of the remaRder OF
1he present decennie period -
n. HVAN WORRIES.
Speaker of the House of Representatives..
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.