The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-06-26

GloAcG VI nNOOh VI Indebtedness shall hA void
The stock and bonded Indebtedness of corpor-
ations shall not be increased except in mr.
suance Of general law, nor until the consent
OF the persons holding the largest amount in
value oil the stock shall be obtained at a meet
ing held after notice given, for a period not
less than sixty days, in pursuance OF law.
SEC IA. Persons and property transported
over any railroad shall be carried to any sta
tion at charges not exceeding in gross the
charges for the same class and amount of
transportation of persons and property in The
same direction to any more distant station;
but excursion and commutation tickets NAV
be Issued at special rates.
ARTICLE Kill
REVENUE AND TAXATION
SECTION l. The General Assembly shall
provide for raising revenue to defrav the ex-
penses of the State for each year, including
d sum sufficient to pay the interest on the
State debt, and so much, at least, of the prin-
cipal thereof as is provided for in Article VIII
of this Constitution.
SEC. 2. The General Assembly shall never
levy poll tax for county or State purposes.
SEC. g. Laws shall be passed, taxing by a
uniform rate all real and personal property
according to its value in money, to be ascer-
tanned by such rules of sppraisement as NAV
be prescribed by the General Assembly, SO
! AAAel1 GA pAOpGlLl bL4h4 U6dT equal DrOneTEOn
| OF the burden OF taxation; provided that the
deduction of debts from credits may be au-
thorized.
SEC. 4. The General Assembly may provide
by general laws for exemption from taxation
all burial grounds, public school-houses,
houses used exclusively for public worship, in
stitutions of purely public charity, public l.
| orarles, public property used exclusively for
any public purpose, and personal property to
l en- ,s,A
lars for each individual. but such laws shall
be subject to alteration or repeal, and the val
ne of property so exempted shall, from time
| to time, be ascertained and published, as may
be directed by law.
SEC. 5. The General Assembly may impose
| taxes by license, excise or otherwise and also
! provide, by equitable rules, for taxing fran
chises and income derived from investments,
| when the principal from which such income
is derived can not be taxed.
SEC. 6 Banks and bankers shall be taxed bv
such equitable rules, based upon capital en-
! ployed and business done, as will require them
to share equally with other persons IN the bur
den Of taxation; but this provision shall not
/ prevent the taxation of shares of stock in anv
bank.
SEC. Z. The General Assembly may by
special tax, assessment or otherwise, regulate,
restrain or prohibit the keeping, harboring,
or running at large of dogs.
SEC. 8. No tax shall be levied except in
/ pursuance of law, and every law imposing
tax shall state distinctly the object of the same
to which only it shall be applied.
SEC. 9. The State shalt never contract any
/ debt for purposes of internal improvement.
ARTICLE XIV.
LEGISLATIVE APPoRTIoN1.ENT AND RErREsEy-
TATIoN.
SEC. l. The apportionmons for members of
the general assembly shall be made every ten
years, after the year one thousand eight hund-
red and seventy-two, IN the manner hereinaf-
ter provided
SEC. ?. The population of the state, as ascer-
tanned 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 he the ratio of represen-
tstlon in the House of Representatives for the
ten years succeeding such apportionment.
Sec. 3. Every county shall be entitled to one
Representative; every county containing said
ratio and one-half over, shall be entitled to two
representatives,; every county containing three
times said ratio shall be entitled to three rep
reseHtauves, and SO on; requiring, after the
first two, an entire ratio for each additional
representative.
SEC. 4. The ratio for a Senator shall be as
certained by dividing the population of the
state by the number thirty-seveu The dis
tricts formed shall be Of contiguous territory, |
and bounded by county lines. Until the next |
decennial apportionment,th the county of Hamil |
ton shall be entitled to four, and the county of |
Cuyahoga to two senators; the other districts 1
TO one senator each, and such additional sena- |
tors for fractional ratios as are provided for in
this article.
SEC. .. When a county shall have fraction |
above the ratio so large that multiplied by five |
10 1. L
additional representatives shall be apportioned |
for such ratios in the following manner: Ii /
there be only one ratio, representative shall
be allotted to the fifth general assembly of the |
decennial period; if two ratios, q representa-
tive shall be allotted to the fourth aud third |
general assemblies; if three, to the the third,
second and first general assemblies; if four, to
the fourth, third, second and first general as
semblies, respectively.
SEC. G. The same rule shall be applied in an
portionipg the fractions of Senatorial districts
that are applied to the fractions of Representa-
tive distriets,an any Senatorial district which
may have less than one half of senatorial ra-
tho at any decennial apportionment shall thon
be attached to the contiguous district having
the least population.
SEC. 7. Any county forming part of Sena-
torial district having population equal to a
full Senatorial ratio at any decennial appor-
torial district,f full senatorial ratio be left in
the district FROM which it is taken.
SEC. s. Untilthe next decennial apportion-
ment, the assignment of representatives and
senators to the several general assem-
blies of the decenniaI period shall be
as provided in this article, and no |
change shall be made in the principles
of representation herein adopted, or in the sen
atorial districts herein establishedi except as
a houa hofo - |
county at tho time Of spportionment shall, as
to the night Of representation and suffrage, re-
main an integral part thereof during the de-
cennial period.
SEC. 9. The Governor, Auditor and Secreta-
y Of State, or any two of them shall, ct least
four mouths prior to the day fixed for holding
the general election for senators or representa-
tlves, IN the year one thousand eight hundred
and eighty two, and at each decennial period
thereafter, ascertain and determine the ratio
OF representation, according TO the decennial
eensus,and the number of representatives each
county or district shall be entitled to elect with
IN the ensuing ten years, and the Governor
shall cause the san5 to be published in such
manner as may be prescribed by Iaw.
SEC. 10. The state is hereby divided into
thirty-three Senatorial districts, as follows:
The county of Hamilton shall be the First
District; the counties of Butler and Warren,
the Second; Preble, Darke and Mercer, the
Third; VanWert, Allen, Putnam and Paulding
the Fourth; Defiance, Williams, Henry and
Fulton, the Fifth; Wood and Lucas the Sixth;
Hancock, Hardin and Logan, the Seventh; Au
glaize, Shelby and Miami, the Eighth; Mont
gOmery, the NINTH Clermont, Brown and Ad-
ans, the Tenth; Highland, Ross and Fayette,
the Eleventh; Clinton, Greene and Clarke the
Twelfth; Madison, Champaign, Union and Del
aware, the Thirteenth; Marion, Morrow and
the Fourteenth; Wyandot, Crawford
and Seneca, the Fifteenth; Sandusky, Ottawa
and Erie, the Sixteenth; Huron, LoTain and
Ashland, the Seventeenth; Knox, Coshocton
and Licking the Eighteenth; Franklin, the |
Nineteenth; Fairfield, PickawaNand Perry tho
Twentieth; Pike, Scioto and Lawrence, the I
lwenty-irst; Gallia, jackson and Meigs, the 6
Twenty Second; Vinto0, Athens, Hooking and {
Morgan, the Twenty Third; Muskingum and I
Guernsey. the Twenty-Fourth; Tuscarawas, {
Holmes and Wayne, the Twenty Fifth; Carol I
and Starke, the Twenty-Sixth, Medina, Sum- 9
nit and Portage, the Twenty-SeVenth; Cuya- c
loga the Twenty Eighth; Geauga, Lake and 0
Ashtabula, the Twenty-Ninth; Trumbull and t
Mahoning, the Thirtiethj Columbiana and JET l
erson the Thirty First; Harrison, Belmont and =
ngton, the Thirty-Third. For the first decen-
nal period the First District shall be entitled
o four senators, the Twenty-eighth District to /
Wo senators, and every other district to one 7
enator in each general assembly; and the 5
twenty-hffh District to an additional senator i
n the fifth general assembly Of the decennial $
period. L
SEC. II. The spportionmento of the House of
Representatives, until the end Of the first de- a
ennisl period, shall be as follows; The county t
Z Hamilton shall be entitled to ten, and the 4
ounty OF Cuyahogato five representa- I
ives in each general assembly, and a
hall each be entitled TO an addi- 9