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AMENDMENT no. 3.
Dated April Sd, 1857.


Resolued, by the General Assembly Of hse
State Of Ohio, three ffths of the members elected
to each House concnrring therein, that it be, aud
hereby proposed to the electors Of this State, to
vote, on the second Tuesday Of October next up
on the approval or rejection Of the following
amendment &c 40 additional section 10 article eley>
en- Of the Constitution. Every county which now
is, or may hereafter be entitled to more than one
Senator, or Representative for the residue Of the
present decennial PERIOD or for all, or any portion
Of any subsequent deeennial period shall be divi-
ded into as many Senatorial and Representative
districts "a there may be Senators or Representa-
tiyes elective in any year Of the present. OF any
subsequent decennial period, which districts shall
be Of contiguous territory, and each district shall
contain as nearly o ratio for Senator or Represent
ative a. is attainable, without violating the rule
herein given as to contiguity Of territory, and
without dividing any township, election precinct or
ward. II any Representative or Senatorial dis
trict composed of two or more counties, shall by
reason Of any excess Of population over a ratio,
be entitled to additional Representatives or Sena-
tors for any portion of the presest or any snbse-
quent deeennia period, the district shall be divided
into two districts, for each portion of such de-
cennial period, which shall be contiguous territory
and each shall contain as near ratio as is Attaina
Die without dividing counties.
, If treason by the annexation Of one Senate
rial district to another, there shall be any excess
population over Senatorial ratio, which shall b'
entitled to additional Senatorial representation fol
any portion of any decennial PERIOD each district
as now constituted, shall elect one Senator.
Counties shall be divided into districts by the
county commissioners or such other board of Off
GERS elective and resident in the proper county as
may be provided by law. AT least four months
prior to the general election in l858 the counties
entitled to more than one member OF either house
shall be divided into districts for the residue of the
present decennial period, and at least four months
prior to the genere election in the first year o.
each subsequent deCennial period, the counties en-
Titled to more than one member for all, or any por
f ton of such deCennial period, in either or botl
houses, shall be divided into districts for the who'll
of the decennial period. A description of tn,
district of each county shall be published as ma!
be directed by the comfy commissioners or as mal
be prescribed by Law.
Nh. VAN WORRIES,
II Speaker oftbe House of Representatives,
,I THOMAS H. FORD,
? ... President Of the Senate
. Dated April ad, 1857.
r SECRETARY OF STATES OFFICE,
4 Columbus April 4, 1857.
hereby certify that the foregoing proposes
Constitution amendments are correctly copie'
from the original rolls on file at this office,
JAMES H. BAKER.
Secretary of State,
do hereby certify that l have read and com
, pared the proof of the foregoing proposed amend
ments to the Constitution, and find them correctly
printed from the copy certified by the Secretary
of State. ], /. BLACKBURN,
A ~.