Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1956-10-18
FOUR YEAR TERM
FOR MEMBERS OF OHIO SENATE

FOUR YEAR TERM
FOR MEMBERS OF OHIO SENATE
Proposing to amend section OF Ar
ticls II. section of Article xI. and
Article XII 81 the constituiion Of ths
state of Ohio relative 10 the term Of
Office of members of the senate.
Be ii resolved by the General As
sembly of the State of Ohio, Three
fifths of the members OF each house
concurring therein, that there shall be
-ubmitted to the electors of the state,
the general election to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, 1856. proposition to
m e n d section of Article ii,
section l of Article XI and to adopt
of the Constitution of the state Of
Ohio as follows:
ARTICLE II
Sec. 2. s's Representatives shall be
elected biennially by the electors of
the respective counties 49,; their term
of Office shall commence on the first
day of January next thereafter. and
continue two years
Senators shall be elected by the
districts; their term of Office shall
commence on the first day of January
next after their election. Approxi-
mately one-half of the total number
Of four years commencing on the first
day of January, 1859. the remainder
to be elected for term of two years
commencing on the first day of Janu-
ary, 1853. For terms commencing on
the first day of January. 1861 and
thereafter, the senatorial term of Office
shall be four years, except that the
term of an additional senator pro-
vided for in section Ga Of Article xI,
Ohio Constitution, shall be two years.
In senatorial districts having two or
more senators, approximately one.hah
shall be elected for four year term
to commence on the first day of Janu-
ary, 1859. and the remainder shall be
elected for a two year term to COM
mence on the first day of January.
1859
In single member senatorial dis
Iricts, the senator in the lowest num-
bered senatorial district shall be
elected for term Of four years COM
mencing on the first day of !; ;a-luary,
1859 the senator in the next highest
elected for term of two years COM
mencing on the first day of January. K
1853; and the remainder shall be
elected so that every other one. nu-
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Of four years to commence on the first
day of January, 1883
The Governor, Auditor, and Secre-
tary of State, or any two OF them,
shall ascertain and determine which
senator's shall be elected to four year
January. 1859 and which senators
shall be elected to four year terms
commencing on the first day of Janu-
ary 1861 The Governor shall cause
such determination to be published,
in such manner as shall be directed
by laa
The terms of all senators commence
ing prior 10 January l. 1883, shall be
two wears.
ARTICLE xl
Sec. 1. TIE appartionment of this
State for nienpers d the General
years, after the year one Thousand
eight hundred Ind dfty-one, in the
following manner: ne whole popula-
lion Of the state, as ascertained by
mode as the General Assembly may
direct, shall be divided by the num-
Der "One Hundred and fhe quotient
shall be the ratio of representation in
the House of Representatives. for ten
years next succeeding such apportion-
ment
No apportionment herein provided
ror shall affect the election or term of
office of any member of the General
Assembly chosen before it was made.
Sec. Ga. When any Senatorial dis
trict shall have fraction above the
ratio so large, thai being multiplied
by FIVE. the result will be equal to
one or more ratios, additional Sena-
tors shall be elected for two year
terms and shall be .apportioped for
such ratios, among the several ses-
sions of the decennial period, in the
following manner: if there be only
one ratio a Senator shall be allotted
to the fifth session of the decennial
period; if there are two ratios, Sena-
third sessions. respectively; If three.
to the third. second and first sessions,
respectively; II four. to the fourth,
third. second. and first sessions, re-
spectively provided that no additional
elected II his election would result in
mis- senatorial district having as !nem-
oers Of the next following general
assembly number OF senators In
excess Of its number Of fun ratios
plus one.
SCHEDULE
on the foregoing proposed amendment
at the general election to be held on
the firsf Tuesday after the first Mon
day in November. 1856, adopt the
same, it shall become part Of the Con-
stitution Of the state of Ohio, and
existing section Of Article II and
section Of Article N shall thereupon
be repealed.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF OHIO
OFFICE OF SECRETARY
OF STATE
/, TED w. BROWN, Secretary OF :
State of the State of Ohio. do hereby
certify that the foregoing is q true
copy Of Amended Senate Joint Reso-
luton No. and Amended Substitute
Senat~ x 3int Resolution No. filed in
the oi.-ce of the Secretary Of State
and proposing to amend the above
sections of the Constitution Of Ohio.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, have
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