M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-08-27
CONSTITUTION AMEND.
MENTS,
AMENDMENT NO, |.

ReSOlUed by The General Assembly of the
State Of Ohio, Three-liiths 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 approv-
al or rejection of the following amendment
as substitute for the twenty-flth 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 eleY.
enth Article, viz All regular sessions of
the General Assembly shall commence on
the first Monday Of January annually. Sem
ators shall be elected biennially, 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 wears, 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 on
the second Tuesday of October, 1857, to be
ascertained by lot, as the President of the
Senate may direct, shall hold their office
for only one year, and their successors shall
be elected on the second Tuesday of Octo-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and fifty
eight, and biennally thereafter. When
any county shall have a fraction above the
rates for Representative so large that being
multiplied by ten, the result shall be equal
to one or more ratios, additional Represen-
tatives shall be apportioned for such ratios
among the several sessions of the decennial
period in the following manner: If there
be only one ratio then a Representative
shall be allotted to the tenth session of the
decennial period.
If there are two ratios Representatives
shall be allotted to the ninth and tenth ses-
sions; If three to the eighth, ninth, and tenth
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; II
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 and
tenth sessions of the decennial period re-
spectively.
In determining the number of Senators
to which any senatorial district might be en-
titled in any decennial period, by reason OF
any fraction of senatorial ratio, the frac-
tion shall be multiplied by five, and if the
result be equal TO one Senatorial ratio, an
additional Senator shall be allotted to said
district for the ninth and tenth sessions. II
it be equal to two such ratios an additional
Senator for the seventh, eighth, ninth and
tenth sessions shall be allotted to such dis
trict. If three then to the fifth, sixth, sew
enth, eighth, ninth and tenth.
If four, to the third, fourth, ffth, sixth
seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth sessions re-
spectvely. If 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
fifth sessions of the present decennial pc.
riod as now provided, shall have like num-
Der of members in each branch thereof for
each session Of the remainder of the present
decenniai period.
N. H. VAN VORHES,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.