Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
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Constitution Amendments
To be Submitted to The rioters Of Ohio at the October
AMENDMENT NO.

Election. ~
AMENDMENT n {. l..
d ESoLyE5 By THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
IL STATE OF OHIO, Three-6iths Of the members elect
ed to each House eoncurripg 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 cs a suhsti-
tute forthe tyenty-ffth Section of the second Article of
the Constitution ana for the second Section of the same
Article, and for the third Section Of the eleventh
Article, viz: An regular session of the Geaersi Assembly
shall commence on the first Monday of January, annually.
Senators shall be elected biennally, and Representatives,
annually, by the electors OF their respective counties or
dictricts on the second Tuesd,y of October. Their term
of Office shall commence on the frstday of January next
after their election, and that the Senators shall continue
two wears. and that OF Representative one year. The Sem
ators elected il October next shall hold Their Offices for
two years, and the Representatives elected at the same
time shall hold their Offices for one year. Provided that
seventeen of the Senators elected on tie second Tuesday
of October, 1857, to be assertained 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 sec
ond Tuesday of October, one thousand eight hundred and
ffty-eight, and biennially thereafter. When any county
shall have a fraction above The rates t.r Representative
so large inst being multiplied by ten, the result shall be
equal 10 one or more ratios, additional Representatives
shall be apportioned for such ratios among the several
SESSIONS of the dscsnniai period, in the followins manner:
If there be only one rate then a Representative shall DC
allotted to the tenth session of the decennial period.
If there are two ratios Representative shall be allotted
to the ninth and teuth sessions; If three to the eighth,
ninth, and tenth sessions;l If four to the seventh, eighth,
ninth and tenth sessions: If five to the sixth, seventh,
eighth. ninth and tenth; If six to the 6ffh, sixth, seventh,
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sixth, seventh, eigth, ninth and tenth: If eight to the
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and
tenth: II nine to the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth,
seventh eighth, ninth and tenth sessions of decenniai
period respectively.
In determining the number of Senators to which any
senatorial district might he entitled in any decennial Pc
Rod, by reason of any fraction of a senatorial ratio, the
fraction shall be multiplied by FIVE, and il the result be
equal 10 enc senatorial ratio, an additional Senator shall
be allotted to said district for the ninth snd tenth ses-
sions. If it he equal to two such ratios an additional
Senator for the seventh; eighth, niatf, and tenth sessions
shall be allotted to such district. If three then TO the
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth.
If four, to the third, fourth, eth, sixth, seventh, eighth
ninth and tenth sessions respectively. If this amend
ment he adopted by the electors, the counties now emit
tied to more than one member in either or both
branches of the Legislature in the fourth and fifth ses-
sions 1.-THE present decennial period as now provided. shall
have g like number of members in each branch thereof for
each session of the remainder Of the present decennial
period. ~
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
nstci riI21J 1887