The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-04-08
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Proposed Constitution Amendments.


ResolUed By the General Assembly Of the State of
Ohio. Three-ffths of the members elected to each
House ooncurring 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 ap-
proval or rejection of the following amendment:
as a substitute for the twehty-fifth Section of the
second Article of the Constitution and for the
second Section of the same Article, and for the
third Section of the eleventh Article, viz: All
regular sessions of the General Assembly shall
on the first Monday of January, annuE
ally. Senators shall be elected biennially, and
Representatives annually, by the elector RS of their
respective counties or districts on 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 Representatives one year:
The Senators elected in October next shall hold
their offices for two years, and the Representa-
tives elected at the same time shall hold their Of
fees for one year. Provided, that seventeen of
the Senators elected on the second Tuesday OF
October, 1857. to be ascertained by lot. as the
their office for only one year, and their successors
shall be elected on the second Tuesday of October,
bienniaIly thereafter. When any county shall
have a fraction above the rates for Representative
shall be equal to one or moro ratios, additional
Representatives shall be apportioned for such
ratios among the several sessions of the decennial
period in the folio wing manner III There be only
one ratio then a Representative shall be allotted
to the tenth session of the decennlal period.
If there are two ratios Representatives shall be
allotted to the ninth and tenth sessions; 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, Einth and tenth Ii six
to the fifth, sixth. seventh, eighth, ninth and
tenth; If seven to the fourth fifth, sixth. seventh.
eighth, ninth and tenth; If eight to the third,
fjurth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and
tenth; If nine to the second, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth. seventh, e shth, ninth and tenth sessions OF
the deCennial period respectively.
In determining the number ofSenators to which
any senatorial district might he entitled in any
decennial period by reason of any fraction of a
senatorial ratio, the fraction shall be multipIi cd
by five, and ifthc 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 additiOl al Senator for
the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sessions shall
be allotted to such district. If three then to the
fifth, sixth, seventh, eight, ninth and tenth
If four, TO the third, fourth, fifth, sixth seventh,
eighth ninth, and tenth sessions respectively. If
this amendment be adopted by the electors, the
counties now entitled to moro than one member
in either or both branches of the Legislature in
the fourth and fifth sessions of the present de.
cennial period as now provided, shall have a like
number of members in each branch thereof fol
each session of the remainder of the present de.
cennial period.
Nh. VAN VORHES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives..
THOMAS II. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
Dated April I'd. 1881.