The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-05-14
PROPOSED CONSTITUTION AMEND
MENTS.


Resolved by the General Assembly Of the State of
Ohio, Three-ffths of the members elected to each
House concurrug therein That it be and hereby is
proposed to the electors of this state TO vote on the
second Tuesday of October next, upon the approval
or rejection of the following amendment as substi'
tute for the twentyfth section of the second article
of the constitution and for the second section of the
article and for the third section of the eleventh
article viz all regular sessions of the General As
sembly shall commence the first Monday of Janu-
ury annually Senators shall be elected bienaly aud
representatives annually by the electors Of their
specve counties districts 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 rep
resentatvcs 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
thef offices for one year. Provided that seventeen
of the senators elected on the second Tuesday of Oc
tober 1851 to be ascertaned by lOt as the President
of the may direct shall hold their office for only
year. and their shall be elected the
second Tuesday of October, thousand eight hun
dred and ifty-eght and biennially thereafter When
any county shall have fraction above the rates for
representative large that being multiplied by ten,
the result shall be equal to ratios, addi.
tional representatives shall be apporoned for such
ratios among the several sessions of the decennia
period in the following lfthetc be only one
ratio then Representative shall be allotted the tenth
session of the decennial period.
If there two ratios representatives shall he all0t
ted to the ninth and tenth sessions il three to the
eighth, ninth and tenth if four the seventh, ghth
ninth and tenth if five to the SIXTH seventh, eighth
:
eighth. ninth and tentn if seveh to the fourth fifth
SIXTH seventh, eighth Anth and tenth if eight to the
third, fourth fifth sixth, seventh eight, ninth and
tenth if nine the second, third fourth fifth, SIXTH
seventh eighth, ninth and tenth sessions of the de-
cennial period respectively.
In determining the number of senator's to which any
senatorial district might be entitled in decennia
period by reason of any fraction of senatorial ratio
the fraction shall be multiplied by five, and if the
suit be equal to senatorial ratio an additional
Senator shall be allotted said district tor the ninth
and tenth sessions If it be equal to two such ratios
additional Senator for the seventh eighth, NINTH
and tenth sessions shall be allotted 10 such district If
three then to the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth ninth
and tenth
If four to the third, eighth,
ninth and tenth sessions respectively If this amend
ment be adopted by the electors the counties now en-
titled to than member in either or both
branches of the Legislature in the fourth aud fifth
sons of the present decennia period provid-
ed shall have like number of members in each branch
thereof for each of the remainder of the pres
ent decennia period.
n. H. VAN WORRIES.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD.
President of the Senate.