The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-06-18


porting persons or property, or of tel
egrapnlng, mining, manufacturing or 4
insurance in this state, except while /
it maintains therein an Office, where,
or on the person in charge of which, |
process may oe served in any action /
or legal proceeding instituted against |
II; nor after 1t shall cause or procure |
TO be removed into any Of the /
courts of the United States a |
proceeding instituted by or against il, |
in any court OF this state, upon cause /
OF action arising out of such business.
which corporation Ct this state, il a /
party to such proceeding, might not |
cause or procure to be so removed.
/ Sec. l2. The general assembly shall !
I pass laws to correct abuses and pre-
vent unjust discrimination and exees-
sive charges by railroad companies
for transporting freight and passen-
gers; and shall provide for enforcing
such laws by adequate penalties aud
/ fOrfeitures.
Sec. Is. No corporation shall issue
stocks or bonds, except for money OF
property actually received, or labor
done; and Rll fictitious increase of
stock or Indebtedness shall be void.
The stock and bonded indebtedness OS
corporations shall not be increased,
except in pursuance of general law;
nor until the consent of the persons
holding the larger amount in value OF
the stock shall be obtained, at meet
ing held after notice given, for a per-
iod not less than sixty days, ia parsu-
anee OF law.
Sec. II. Persons and property,
transported over any railroad, shall
be carried to any station at charges
not exceeding in gross the charges for
the same class and amount of trans
POrtatiOn OF persons and property in
the sane direction, 10 any more dis
tant station; but excursion and COM
mutation tickets may be- issued at
special rates.
ARTICLE XIII.
Rersnue and Td1dtiOR.
Section I. The general assembly
shall provide for raising revenue 10
defray the expenses OF the state for
each year, including sum sufficient
TO pay the interest on the state debt,
and 50 much, at least, Of the principal
thereof, as is provided for In article
eight Of this constitution.
Sec 3 The general assembly shall
never levy u poll tax for county or
state purposes.
Sec. 3. Laws shall be passed, tax
ing by a unifol N rate all real and per-
sonal property, according to its value
in money, to be aseertained by such
rules Of fsppraisement as may be pre-
seribed by the general assembly, so
that all property shall bear an equal
proportion of the burdens of taxation;
provided, that the deduction Of debts
from credits may be authorized.
See. 4. The general assembly may
provide by general laws for exemption
from taxation OF all burial grounds,
public school houses, houses used eX-
clusively for public worship, institu-
tiOns of purely public charity, public
libraries, public property used exclu-
sively for any public purpose, and per-
sonal property to an amount not ex-
ceeding two hundred dOllars for each
individual; but such laws shall be
subject to alteration or repeal, and the
value OF property SO exempted shall,
from time to time, be asceTtained and
published, as may be directed by law.
Sec. 5. The general assembly may
impose taxes by license, excise or 9TH
erwise, and also provide, by equitable
rules, for taxing franchises and in
come derived from investments, when
the principal from which such income
is derived can not be taxed.
Sec. @. Banks and Dankers shall be
taxed by such equitable rules, based
upon capital employed and business
done, as will require them TO share
equally with other persons in the bdr-
dens Of taxation; bot this provision
shall not prevent the taxation OF
shares of stock in any bank.
Sec. 4. The general assembly may,
by special tax, assessment or othe--
wise, regulate, restrain or prohibit
the keeping, hSrboring, or running at
large of dogs.
Sec. 8. No tax shall be levied ex-
eept in pursuance Of law, and every
law imposing a tax shall state dis
tinetly the object of the same, to
See Bee. o. Tie state 81 shGaHTii hiaever con-
tract any debt for purposes Of internal
improvement.
ARTICLE XIV.
LegislatiUe Apporttonment and Rep
TesentCrtiOn.
Section /. The apportiOnment for
mem bers Of the general assembly
shall be made every ten years, after
the year one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-tvO, in the maunsr here
matter provided
Sec. 2. The population Of the state,
as aseertained by the federal census,
or in such other mode as the general
assembly may direct, shall be divided
by the number one hundred and five,
and the quotient shall be the ratio OF
representation ia the Eouse Of repre-
sentatives for the ten years succeed
ing such appOrtiOnment.
Sec. 8. Every county shall be en-
titled 70 one representative; every
county containing said ratio and one
half over shall he entitled to two rep
resentatives every county contain
ing three times said ratio shalt be en-
titled 10 three representatives; aud so
OH, requiring after the first two an
entire ratio for each additional repre-
sentative.
! Sec. 4. The ratio for a senator shall
be ascertained by dividing the pOpula-
tion of the state by the number thirty
seven. The districts formed shall be
Of contiguous territory and bounded
by county lines. Until the next de-
cennial apportioument. the county Of
Hamilton shall be entitled to four,
and the county OF CuyahOga 70 two
senators and the other districts to
one senator each, sud saeh saeikiOnal
senators for fractional ratios as are
provided for in this article.
Fec. ). When q county shall have
a fraction above the ratio so large that
multiplied by five, the result will De
equal TO one or more ratios, additional
representatives shall be appOrtiOned
, for such ratios In the following man
ner II there be only one ratio, a
representative shall be allotted to the
hfth general assembly Of the deeen-
NAL period If two ratios, a represen-
tatIve shall be allotted TO the fourth
and third general assemblies II
three, to the third second and nrst
general emblies; II four, TO the
fourth, third, second and first gen
eral assemblies, respectively.
See. 8. The same rules shall De ap-
piled in apportiOning the fractions OF
senatorial districts ths1 are applied to
the fractions of representative dis
tricts, and any senatorial district
! which may have less than one-half Of
a senatorial ratio, at any deeenniat
apPortionment, shall then be attached
TO the contiguous district having the
least population.
Sec. j. Any county, forming part
Of senatorial district, having PoPn-
, lstion equal to full senatorial ratio
at any deeennial appoTtionment, shall
then be made 3 separate senatorial
district, IL u full senatorial ratio be
left in the district from which It Is
! taken.
See. 8. Until the next deeennial
! apportionment, the assignment OF
REPRESENTATIVES and senators to the
several general assemblies Of the de-
eennial period shall be as provided IN
this article, and no change shall be
made I'm the principles of representa-
ton herein adopted I; or in the sena-
uorial districts herein established, ex-
cept as above provided. All territory
belonging to a county at the time OF
an appOrtionment shall as 70 the
Z right Of representation aud suffrage,
remain an integral part thereof 1ur-
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