The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-05-22
Legislative Renreaentatinn

The committee on representation
in the Constitutional Convention
have submitted their report, and
which will probably be adopted by
that body, though there is some oh
lection, especially to the apportion-
ment for Senatorial districts. The
main features of the report are as
follows:
SECTION 1. The apportionment
of this State for members of the
General Assembly shall be made
every ten years, after the year one
thousand eight hundred and seventy
one, in the following manner:
"The whole population of the
State, as ascertained by the Federal
census, or in such other mode as the
General Assembly may direct, shall
be divided by the number one hun
dred and five, and the quotient shall
be the ratio of representation in the
House of Representatives for the
ten years succeeding such appor-
tionment.
"SEC, 2. Every county shall b
entitled to one Representative; every
county containing said ratio and
one half over shall be entitled to two
Representatives; every county con-
tanning three times said ratio shall
be entitled to three representatives;
and so on requiring after the first
two an entire ratio fer each addi-
tional Representative.
"SEC. 3. The ratio for Senator
shall be hereafter ascertained by
dividing the whole population of the
State by the number thirty-seven.
The districts formed shall be of con-
tiguous territory, and, until the next
decennial apportionment, the county
of Hamilton shall be divided into
four, and the county of Cuyahoga
into two separate senatorisl dis
tricts, and each of these divisions
and all the remaining district shall !
be entitled to one Senator each, and
such additional Senators for frac-
tional ratios as may be assigned in
the schedule.
SEC. 9. The State is hereby di- |
vided into thirty-seven senatorial |
districts, as follows: First District, |
Second District, Third District,
Fourth District, to be composed of
of the wards and townships of Ham
ilton county; Fifth District, Warren |
and Butler; Sixth District, Preble, |
Darke and Shelby; Seventh District,
Mercer, Auglaize, Allen and Van |
Vert; Eighth District, Paulding
Putnam, Henry, Defiance and Will |
liams; Ninth District, Fulton and |
Lucas; Tenth District, Wood, Han
cock and Hardin; Eleventh District, |
Logan, Champaign and Miami;
Twelfth District, Montgomery; |
Thirteenth District, Clarke, Green |
and Madison; Fourteenth District, |
Fayette, Clinton and Highland; |
Fifteenth District, Clermont, Brown
and Adams; Sixteenth District,
Sciota, Pike and Lawrence; Seven
teenth District, jackson, Gallia and
Meigs; Eighteenth District, Athens,
Vinton and Ross; Nineteenth Dis
trict, Pickaway, Hooking and Fair
field; Twentieth District, Franklin;
Twenty first District, Licking, Della
ware and Union; Twenty second
District, Marion, Morrow and Rich
land; Twenty third District, Craw-
ford, Seneca and Wyandot; Twenty
fourth District, Ottawa, Sandusky
and Erie; Twenty-ffth District, Hu-
ron, Ashland and Lorain; Twenty
sixth and Twenty seventh District,
Cuyahoga; Twenty-eighth District,
Medina, Summit and Portage;
Twenty-ninth District, Stark and
Carol; ThirtieJh District, Wayne,
Holmes and Knox; Thirty-frst Dis
trict, CoshoctOn, Tuscarawas and
Thirty-second District,
Guernsey and Muskingum; Thirty
third District, Perry, Morgan and
Washington; Thirty fourth District,
Noble, Monroe and Belmont; Thirty
fifth District, Jefferson and Colum-
biana; Thirty-sixth District, Ma
honing and Trumbull; Thirty-sev-
enth District, Geauga, Lake and
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