M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-05-21
PROPOSED CONSTITUTION AMEND
MENTS.
AMENDMENT NO. /.

NMLNbmENl NOs 4
ReSoluCd by the General Assembly of The
Slate of Ohio, Three-ffths 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-ffth 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 OIL
the General Assembly shall commence on
the first Monday Of January annually. Sen
ators shall be elected biennially, and Rep
re sentutives 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 Representatives one year. The Sem
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-
Der, one thousand eight hundred and fifty
eight, and biennially thereafter. When
any county shall have a fraction above the
rates for Representative so large that being
multiplied by len, the result shall be equal
to one or more ratios, additional Represent
tatives shall be apportioned for such ratios
among the several sessions of the decennial
period in the following manner : If there
be only n ratio then a Representative
shall be allotted to the tenth session of the
dccennial period.
If there are two ratios Representatives
shall be allotted to the ninth and tenth ses-
sions; Irthree to the eighth, ninth and tenth
sessions; Iffour 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; If
seven to the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth andtenth; 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-.
tiGled in any decenniai period, by reason of
any fraction Of senatorial ratio, the frac-
ton shall be multiplied by five, and ifthe
result be equal to one Senatorial ratio, an
additional Senator shall be allotted to said
district for the ninth and tenth sessions. If
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. II three then to the fifth, sixth, sew
enth, eighth, ninth and tenth.
If four, to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth,
seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth sessions re-
spectively. 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
Rod as now provided, shall have a like num-
Der of members in each branch thereof for
each session ofthe remainder of the present
decenniai period.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker ofthe House of Representatives..
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
Dated April 81, 1857.