The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1957-10-31

2. QUALIFICATIONS OF PERSONS
TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTORS
Proposing to amend section l of Ar
ncle v of the constitution OF the
State of Ohio to provide that a per-
son may vote for the President and
Vice President of the United States
without fulfilling the requirement
of one year residence contained In
that section.
Be it resolved by the General AS
sembly of the State of Ohio. Three
fifths of the members elected to each
house concurring therein, that there
shall be submitted to the electors of
the state, for their approval or re-
lection, at the election held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, 1851, proposal TO
amend section l of Article V, said sec
ton l of Article V amended to read
as follows:
ARTICLE v
Section 1. Every citizen of the
United States, of the age of twenty
one years, who shall have been
resident of the state one year next
preceding the election, and OF the
county, township, or ward, in which
he resides, such time as may be pro-
vided by law. shall have the, quail
fications of an elector, and be en-
titled to vote at all elections.
Every citizen of the United States
being tWenty-one years of age who
is not entitled to vote at all elections
shall be entitled to vote for the
choice of electors for President and
Vice President of the United States If
he shall have been a resident of the
state, county, township or ward IN
which he desires to vote such time as
may be provided by law, provided
that he is not entitled to vote for the
choice of electors for President and
Vice President of the United States
in any other state.
SCHEDULE
IF a majority of the electors voting
on the foregoing proposed amendment
at the general election to be held on
the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in November 1857, adopt the same,
it shall become part of the Constitution
of the state of Ohio, and existing sec
ton 1 of Article V shall thereupon be
repealed.
3. COUNTY CHARTER
GOVERNMENT
Proposing to amend section of Ar
ticle of the constitution of the state
of Ohio relative to county govern
meRC.
Be it resolved by the General As
sembly of the State of Ohio, Three
fifths of the members of each house
concurring therein, that there shall
De submitted To the 6l6CLOiS Oh IIlS
state, in the manner prescribed by
law, at the election to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, 1857, q proposition to
amend section 3 of Article X of the
Constitution of the State of Ohio as
follows:
ARTICLE X
Section 3. *"# The people of any
county may frame and adopt or
amend a charter as provided in this
article but the right of the initiative
and referendum is reserved to the
people of each county on all matters
which such county may now or here
after be authorized to control by
legislative action. Every such charter
shall provide the form of government
of the county and shall determine
which of its officers shall be elected
and the manner of their election. It
shall provide for the exercise of all
powers vested in, and the perform
ance of all duties imposed upon
counties and county officers by law.
Any such charter may provide for
the concurrent or exclusive exercise
by the county, in all or in part OF its
area, of all or of any designated
! powers vested by the constitution or
| laws of Ohio in municipalities; 1t may
| provide for the organization of the
| county as municipal corporation;
| and in any such case it may provide
|
| the rights. properties, and obligations
| of municipalities and townships
| therein incident TO the municipal
| power SO vested in the county, and
| for the division of the county into
| districts for purposes of admlnlstra
| ton or of taxation or of both. 50"
/ Any charter or amendment which
| alters the form and offices of county
government or which provides for
/ the exercise by the county of powers
vested in municipalities by the con
stitution or laws of Ohio, or both
| shall become effective if approved by
majority of the electors voting there
| on. In case of conflict between the
| exercise of powers granted by such
charter and the exercise of powers by
| municipalities or townships, granted
| by the constitution or general law
| whether or not such powers are be-
ing exercised at the time of the
adoption of the charter, the exercise
| of power by the municipality or
township shall prevail. charter OF
amendment providing for the exclu-
sive exercise of municipal powers
succession by the county to any
property or obligation of any munich
| pality or township without the con-
sent of the legislative authority oi
such municipality or township shall
become effective on VIZ only ~ when !, Il Il
jority of those voting thereon Q) in
the county. (2) in the largest munich
pality, 90 in the county outside .oi
such municipality, and "a in counties
having a population, based upon the
latest preceding federal decennia
census, of 100000 or less, in each of {
majority of the combined total O,
municipalities and townships in the
county mot including within any
| township any part of its area lying
within a municipality.
SCHEDULE
At the election herein designated
for the submission of this amend
ment to the electors of the state o.
Ohio, the same shall be placed on the
official ballot in the manner pre-
Scribed by law and shall be desig
mated as follows: