Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-05-07
LEGAL
PROPOSED
CONSTITUTION AMENDMENTS.
AMENDMENT NO |


Rssolued By the General Assembly Of the State of
Ohio, Three-fifths of the members elected TO each
House concurring therein. That il Re and hereby is
proposed the electors Of this State to vote the
second Tuesday of October urxt on The approval or
rejection ofthe following amendment as substitute
for the twentyf h Section of the second Article of
the Constitution and for the second Section of the
Ari Gle and for the third Section ofthe eleventh
Article viz: All regular sessions of the General As
sesnly shall commence ON the h'st Monday of janu-
ary annually Senators shall he elected hiennaily,
and Representatives annually by the electors o. their
respective unties DISTRICTS the second Tues
of October. Their terms # Office shall Commence on
the first day of January next after their election, and
that fSenaors sh Al continue two years and that of
ReI reSentatives one year. The Senators elected in
October shall hold their Offices for two years and
the Representatives elected the same time shall
hold their offices for year. crowded, that seven
the Senators elt eed the second Tuesday OF
October, 1857 TO he aseertained by lot as the Presi
dent of the Senate direct shall hold their office
for only year. and their successors shall he lectec
the second Tuesday of October one thousand eight
hundred and ftyeight an hiennially the 1esi.eri.
for Representative so large that being multiplied
by ten shall he equal TO one or more ratios
additional representatives. shall he appointed for such
ratios among the several sessions of the decenBa peri
cd in the following manner: If there be only one
ratio tn Representative shall be allotted TO the
tenth session of the decennial period
IfIheir are two ratios Representatives shall he al
oted ninth and tenth sessions; II three 10 tne
eighth, ninth, and tenth sessions four 10 lne sew
enth eighth, ninth and tenth; lfhve TO stxth. sew
enth eighth ninth and tenth; II six 70 the hth sixth
seventh eighth ninth and tenth; Iseven TO the fourth
fifth. sixth. seventh eighth ninth and tenth elsht
the third fourth th sixth. seventh, eighth. ninth
and tenth; III nine the second third, fourth mn,
SIXTH seventh eIght ninth and tenth sessions oil the
Uenuial period respectively.
IN determining the number of Senators TO which
anv senatorial district might he entitled in sny decen-
nia period, by of any fraction Ofa senatorial
ratio The traction shall he tiplied by five and II
the result he equal 10 one senatorial ratio. an addl-
ona Senator shall be allotted to sa district for Inc
ninth and tenth sessions. If he equal TO two such
ratios an additional Senator for the seventh, eighth
NINTH and tenth sessions shall be allotted to such DIS
Irci III three then the fifth, sixth, sevenih,eshth
ninth ana tenth.
Iffour TO the third. fourth, hth, sixth, seventh
eighth NINTH and tenth sessions respectively Htnls
amendment he adopted by the electors, the Counties
low untitled to more than member in either OF
boil ranches of the Leg islature in the fourth and
fifth sessions of the present ecennial period as now
| provided, shall have like number Of members N
each branch thereof for each session OF the remaIdel
1.-THE present decennial period- ,,,
N H. VAN WORRIES,
Sneaker of lhe House of Representatives,.
| THOMAS II. FORD,
President Of the Senate.