The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-08-13

Numerous important additions have
been made respecting private corporations,
which are in general terms az follows:
l. The redemption Of any paper
money issued in this State must be fully
secured bv the deposit of bonds of the
United States and Of the Stale of Ohio.
2. In the election of directors of every
private corporation each shareholder shall
have as many votes as the number of his
shares multiplied by the whole number of
directors Of the corporation, and may cast
them all for one candidate or distribute
them as he may see ft-so that, if there
be thirteen directors, the holders of one
thirteenth of the stock can combine their
votes on one candidate and elect him
thus securing to stockholders representa-
tion in the board in exact proportion to
their stock and preventing a majority
from excluding the minority from all
voice in the board OF knowledge of its
proceedings and purposes.
8. Foreign corporations are to be sub
ject TO the same regulations, limitations
and liabilities as like domestic corpora
tions, but cannot be authorized to con-
denim private property.
f. Corporations created prior to May
/, 1852, must 1eorganize subject to the
provisions of the new Constitution, or be
debarred all benefit of laws passed or to
be passed since that date, except laws
regulating judicial procedure.
5. Every officer or agent of a railroad
company is prohibited from being inter-
ested in any manner in the receipts, con-
tracts or earnings of such company, ex-
cept az an ordinary shipper, passenger,
stockholder, bond creditor or employe or
in any arrangement which shall afford
better terms or facilities than are given
the general public.
6. 0ne railroad company cannot con-
solidate with another having parallel or
competing line, nor lease, purchase or
control such line; and no railroad COM
pany may do business in Ohio if it shares
its earnings in any manner with COM
pany owning or controlling parallel or
competing line in this State; the object
cf this provision being to secure to the
public the benefit Of competition.
Z. No foreign corporation is permitted
to do business Of telegraphing, mining,
manufacturing or insuring in Ohio, with
out having an Office in the State where
legal process may be served nor after it
shall have, on the ground of citizenship,
removed suit against it from State to a
Federal Court.
8. The General Assembly is required to
pass laws to correct abuses, and prevent,
by adequate penalties and forfeitures, un-
just discrimination and excessive charges
by railroad companies in transporting
freight and passengers.
9. Corporations are prohibited increas-
ing their stock or bonded Indebtedness
except for full value in money, property,
or labor.
10. Railroad companies are prohibited
charging, except for excursion or COM
mutation tickets, to any station, more in
gross than is charged for the same class
and amount of transportation in the
same direction to a more distant station.
ARTICLE XIII I-REvENUE AND TAXATION.
No change has been made in the general
principle that all property shall be taxed
uniformly, according to its value in
money; the mode of ascertaining such
value to be determined by rules of ap-
praisement prescribed by the General
Assembly. The exempted class, with the
addition of public libraries, remains as
under the existing Constitution, depend
ent exclusively on the pleasure of the Leg
/ islature.
1t was deemed advisable to authorize
the General Assembly to adopt other
plans Of taxation, the mode and time for
the Inauguration of the same being left to
their discretion. The principal features of
the proposed new systems are embodied
the General Assembly may impose taxes
by license, excise, or otherwise, and
may tax franchises and incomes
derived from Investments, where the
principal from which the income is de-
rived cannot be taxed. In anticipation of
the future needs of the State, and with the
intent, if practicable, to prevent too
great increase of the weight of taxation on
the property of our people, it is thought
to be good policy to open up other sources
of revenue, based on business employment
and professional callings, and from invest
ments of capital outside of the State or in
| securities which escape their share of the
general burden. This system of taxation
| has, in part, been adopted in many of the
older commercial States, and has contrib
uted large item in their annual reve-
nues.
/ Banks and bankers are to be taxed on
capital employed and on business done,
unser such equitable rules as may be pre-
scribed by the General Assembly, so that
they may share equally with others in the
/ burdens of taxation.
| A provision is inserted in this Article
/ (Sec. y for the protection of the wool in
terest of the State from the ravsges of
dogs and for securing, by special taxes OF
assessments on those animals, a fund out
of which to compensate for annual losses
from destruction of sheep.
I ARTICLE XIv.-LEGIsLATIvE APPoRTIoN-
MENT AND REPRESENTATION.
The general principle of decernial
and aelf-adjusting apportionment for the
election of Senators and Representatives,
after each Federal census, is preserved !;
but the divisor for the ratio of represen-
tation is increased in the Senate to thirty
seven, and in the House of Representa-
tives to one hundred and five, which, SUBJ
| iect to variations occasioned by fractional
ratios, will therefore constitute the number
of members of the respective houses. A
new apportionment of the State into Sena-
torial and Representative districts for the
current decade is also submitted in this
Article, which we believe to be fair to
each political party in the State, and as
nearly 80 to each section as practicable.
About half of the Convention favored
the division of all the large counties into
single Senatorial and Representative dis
tricts, conforming to the single districts
of the rest of the State. After much dis
cussion, a substitute for that proposition
was finally agreed to, by vote made up
about equally of both political parties,
giving the minorities of those localities
representation by applying the cumula-
tive method of suffrage in the election of
Senators and Representatives in all coun-
ties where more than two are to be
chosen. This provision is general and
permanent in its intention and scope. At
present it only affects Hamilton and Guy
ahoga counties, but from 1876 to 1880 it
will apply to Franklin and Montgomery,
which will each choose three Representa-