PROPOSED AMENDMENT PROVIDING FOR ANNUAL SESSIONS OF THE GEN

ERAL ASSEMBLY, 1859

Proposed by joint resolution of the General Assembly, April 1859. Submitted to electors, October 11, 1859.

RESOLVED by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, three-fifths of the members of each house concurring therein, that it be and hereby is proposed to the electors of the state to vote at the next annual October election, upon the approval or rejection of the following amendment as a substitute for the first clause of the twenty-fifth section of the second article of the Constitution of this state, to-wit: "All regular sessions of the General Assembly shall commence on the first Monday in January annually.":

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26 Laws of Ohio, vol. lvi, 326. - ED.

PROPOSED AMENDMENT RESTRICTING

SUFFRAGE, 1867

Proposed by joint resolution of the General Assembly, April

6, 1867. Submitted to electors, October 8, 1867.

RESOLVED by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, three-fifths of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto, that it be and is hereby proposed to the electors of this state to vote, at the next annual October election, upon the approval or rejection of the following amendment as a substitute for the first section of the fifth article of the Constitution of this state, to-wit:

Every male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a 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 provided by law, except such persons as have borne arms in support of any insurrection or rebellion against the government of the United States, or have fled from their places of residence to avoid being drafted into military service thereof, or have deserted the military or naval service of said government in time of war, and have not subsequently been honorably discharged from the same, shall have the qualifications of an elector, and be entitled to vote at all elections."

27 Laws of Ohio, vol. Ixiv, 328. — ED.

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PROPOSAL TO HOLD A CONSTITUTIONAL

CONVENTION, 1871

Submitted by act of General Assembly of March 30, 1871. Submitted to electors, October 10, 1871.

Total vote cast

For convention

Against convention

Adopted.

459,990

267,618

104,231

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Ohio, that the question, "Shall there be a convention to revise, alter or amend the constitution?" of this state shall be submitted to the electors thereof at the general election to be held therein on the second Tuesday to wit: the tenth day of October, A.D. 1871.28 28 Laws of Ohio, vol. lxviii, 47. — ED.

ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF DELEGATES AND ASSEMBLING OF A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1873

Provided for by act of the General Assembly, passed January 14, 1873, as follows: 29

WHEREAS, at the general election held in this state on the second Tuesday of October, A.D., 1871, the question, "Shall there be a convention to revise, alter or amend the constitution?" was submitted to the electors of the state, and a majority of all the electors voting thereat decided in favor of a convention; and

WHEREAS, in such case, it is made the duty of the general assembly at its next session, to provide by law for the election of delegates to, and the assembling of such convention; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, that the qualified electors of each county and representative district in this state, shall on the first Monday in April, A.D. 1873, assemble at their usual places of holding April elections, and proceed to elect a number of delegates, having the qualifications of an elector, to said convention, equal to the number of representatives which each county or district was entitled to elect to the house of representatives of the sixtieth general assembly of Ohio.

SEC. 2. That said election shall be proclaimed by the sheriffs of the several counties, and shall in all respects 29 Laws of Ohio, vol. lxx, 6.- ED.

be conducted, and the returns thereof made, and the results thereof certified, as is provided by law in case of the election of representatives to the general assembly, the judges and clerks of such election being those of said April election; provided, if two or more candidates at such election have the highest and an equal number of votes for delegate, the election shall be determined by lot, as provided by law in case of county officers.

SEC. 3. That the delegates so elected shall assemble in the hall of the house of representatives, in the city of Columbus, on the second Tuesday of May, A.D. 1873, at ten o'clock, a.m., with authority to adjourn to any other place within this state for the holding of the convention; and may, for the purpose of a temporary organization, be called to order by the oldest member present. They shall be entitled to the privileges of senators and representatives, named in section twelve, article second of the Constitution.

SEC. 4. Said convention shall have authority to determine its own rules of proceeding, and to punish its members for disorderly conduct, to elect such officers as it may deem necessary for the proper and convenient transaction of the business of the convention, and to prescribe their duties; to make provision for the publication of its own proceedings, or any part thereof, during its session; to provide for the publication of the debates and proceedings of the convention, in durable form, and for the securing of a copyright thereof for the state; and to fix and prescribe the time and form and manner of submitting any proposed revision, alterations or amendments of the Constitution to the electors of the state; also the notice to be given of such submission.

SEC. 5. The election at which said submission shall