Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1956-10-11
FOUR YEAR TERM
DR. MEMBERS OF OHIO SENATE

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state of Ohio relative TO the term of
Office of members of the senate.
Be it resolved by the General As
ifths of the members of each house
concurring therein, that there shan be
1ubmitted to the electors of the state,
in the manner prescribed by law, at
hs seaS ser to the ee st nsd Mandas
in November, 1856, a proposition to
amend d section Of Article II,
section ! of Article XI and to adopt
supplemental section Ga of Article xI
of the Constitution of the state of
Ohio as follows:
ARTICLE II
Sec. 2. e" Representatives shall be
elected biennially by the electors of
the respective counties '''; their term
of Office shall commence on the first
day of January next thereafter, and
continue two years.
Senators shall be elected by the
electors of the respective senatorial
commence on the first day of January
next after their election. APPROX
mately one-half of the total number
of senators shall be elected for term
Of four years commencing on the hrst
day of January, 1859, the remainder
to be elected for term of two years
commencing on the first day of Janu-
ary, 1859. 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-halt
shall be elected for four year term
30 tha FFrt * n
ary, 1859, and the remainder shall be
elected for a two year term to COM
mence on the first day of January,
1889
In single member senatorial dis
tricts, the senator in the lowest num-
elected for a term of four years COM
snencing on the first day of January,
1859: the senator in the next highest
numbered senatorial district shall be
elected for term OF two years com
1859; and the remainder shall be
elected so that every other one, nu-
merically, shall be elected for term
of four years to commence on the hrst
day Of january. 1859
The Governor, Auditor, and Secre-
tary of State, or any two. OF them,
shall ascertain and determine which
senators shall be elected to four year
terms commencing on the first day of
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 law
The terms of all senators commenc-
ing prior 70 January l. 1853, shall be
two wears.
ARTICLE XI
Sec. 1. 'rhe apportionment of this
State for members of the General
Assembly, shall be made every ten
years, after the year one thousand
eight hundred and tjfty-one, in the
following manner: The whole popula-
ton OF the state, as ascertained by
the federal census, or in such other
mode as the General Assembly may
direc., shall be divided by the num-
Ger "One Hundred" and the quotient
shall be the ratio of representation in
the House of Representatives. for ten
years next succeeding such apportion-
ment.
No apportionment herein provided
tor 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
ratio, SO large, that being multiplied
by five, the result viii be equal to
one or more ratios. additional Sena-
tors shall be elected for two year
terms and shall be apportioned for
such ratios, among the several ses-
sions cf the decennial period, in the
following manner: if there be only
one ratio Senator shall be allotted
to the fifth session of the decennial
period; If the-e are two ratios, a Sena-
tor shall be allotted to the fourth and
third sessions. respectively; If three,
TO the third, second, and first sessions.
respectively: IL four. to the fourth.
third, second, and first sessions, re-
spectively provided tnat no additional
senator mentioned herein shall be
elected if hts election would result in
MS senatorial district having as MEM
bers of the next following general
assembly a number Of senators in
excess of it's number of full ratios
plus one.