M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-04-09
PROPOSED CONSTITUTION AMEND.
MENTS.
AMENDMENT NO, |.

ResOlUed by the Gcneral Assembly Of The
State of Ohio, Three-hiths of the members
elected to each house concurring 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 approx
al or rejection of the following amendment
as a substitute for the twenty-6fth Section
of the second Article of the Constitution
and for the second Section of the same Ar
ticle, and for the third Section of the elev-
enth Article, viz All regular sessions Of
the General Assembly shall IN on
the first Monday ofJanuary annually. SEN
ators shall be elected b%ienniully, and Rep
resentatives annually, by the electors of their
respective counties or districts on the sec
ond 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 Representatives one year. The SEN
ators elected in October next shall hold
their Offices for two years, and the Repre-.
sentatives elected at the same time shall
hold their Offices for one year. Provided
that seventeen of the Senators elected or
the second Tuesday of October, 1857. to be
ascertained by lo;, as the President of the
Senate may direct, shall hold their Office
for only one year, and their successors shai,
be elected on the second Tuesday ofOcto
her, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
eight, and b%iennially thereafter. Wher
any county shall have a fraction above thu
rates for Representative SO large that being
multiplied by ten, the result shall be equa
TO one or more ratios, additional Represen
tatives shall be apportioned for such ratio!
among the several sessions of the decennia
period in the following manner {: If there
be only one ratio then a Representative
shall be allotted to the tenth session of thu
decennial period.
If there are two ratios Representative!
shall be allotted to the ninth and tenth SEES
sions; If three to the eighth, ninth and tentl
sessions; If four to the seventh, eighth, ninth
and tenth; If five to the sixth, seventh
eighth, ninth and tenth If six to the fifth
sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth; |
seven to the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh
eighth, ninth and tenth; If eight to the third
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth
and tenth If nine, to the second, third
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth ant
tenth sessions of the decennial period re-
spectively.
In determining the number of Senator:
to which any senatorial district might be en-.
tited in any decennial period, by reason OIL
any fraction of a SENATORIAL ratio, the frac'
ton shall he multiplied by five, and iftht
result be equal TO one Senatorial ratio, al
additional Senator shall be allotted to salt
district for the ninth and tenth sessions. l
it be equal to two such ratios an additiona
Senator for the seventh, eighth, ninth ant
tenth sessions shall be allotted to such dis
trict. If three then to the fifth, sixth, sew
enth, eighth, ninth and tenth.
II four, TO the third, fourth, efth, sixth
seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth sessions re
spectively. If this amendment be adopted
BY the electors, the counties now entitled Il
more than one member in either or boil
branches of the Legislature in the fourth an
fifth sessions Of the present %decennial pc
Rod as now provided, shall have a like NUN
Der of member in each branch thereof 70
each session Of the remainder Of the presen
decenniai period.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker ofthe House Of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.