MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE SECOND OHIO CONVENTION-CONTINUed. Medill, William, President Prentiss, W. S. V., Assist. Secretary Mortley, David H., Assist. Secretary Henry Reed, Assist. Reporter...、 Ashtabula ..........་ Wayne Knox....:!! Kelloggsville. New Hampshire 38 44 Attorney at Law Married Jeromeville Ohio 49 49 Farmer....、 Married Farmer... Married 18 Attorney at Law,,,,, Single nglania. 16 Printer and Editor. Married Cincinnati, New York Editor... Married ... Columbus Connecticut. • 14 31. Editor.. Married Woodsfield Delaware 50 55 Collector Single Mansfield Pennsylvania... 44 $3 Carpenter, Married In place of Leander Firestone, resigned. In place of Wesley Claypool, resigned: In place of John W, CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO. [ADOPTED IN 1802.] SEC. 5. The senators shall be chosen biennially, by the qualified voters for representatives; and on their being convened in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, by lot, from their respective counties or districts, as near as can be, into two classes: the seats of the senators of the first class and of the second class at the expiration of the second shall be vacated at the expiration of the first year, year; so that one half thereof, as near as possible, may be annually chosen forever thereafter. We, the people of the eastern division of the terri- limits of the county in which he shall be chosen, one tory of the United States, northwest of the river year next preceding his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United Ohio, having the right of admission into the gen-States, or of this State, and shall have paid a State or eral government, as a member of the Union, con- county tax. sistent with the Constitution of the United States, the ordinance of Congress of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the law of Congress, entitled "An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory of the United States, northwest of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and State government, and for the admis sion of such State into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States, and for other pur- SEC. 6. The number of senators shall, at the several poses; in order to establish justice, promote the periods of making the enumeration before mentioned, be fixed by the Legislature, and apportioned among welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to our-the several counties or districts, to be established by selves and our posterity, do ordain and establish law, according to the number of white male inhabitthe following constitution or form of government, ants of the age of twenty-one years in each, and shall and do mutually agree with each other to form our-never be less than one-third, nor more than one-half of the number of representatives. selves into a free and independent State, by the name of the State of Ohio: ARTICLE I. SEC. 1. The legislative authority of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives, both to be elected by the people. SEC. 7. No person shall be a senator who has not arrived at the age of thirty years, and is a citizen of the United States; shall have resided two years in the county or district, immediately preceding the election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States, or of this State; and shall, moreover, have paid a State or county tax. SEC. 8. The Senate and House of Representatives. when assembled, shall each choose a Speaker and its other officers; be judges of the qualifications and elections of its members, and sit upon its own adjournments: two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members. SEC. 9. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish them: the yeas and nays of the members, on any question, shall, at the desire of any two of them, be entered on the journals. SEC. 2. Within one year after the first meeting of the General Assembly, and within every subsequent term of four years, an enumeration of all the white male inhabitants, above twenty-one years of age, shall be made in such manner as shall be directed by law. The number of representatives shall, at the several periods of making such enumeration, be fixed by the Legislature and apportioned among the several counties, according to the number of white male in habitants above twenty-one years of age in each, and shall never be less than twenty-four, nor greater than thirty-six, until the number of white male inhabit ants, above twenty-one years of age, shall be twentytwo thousand; and after that event, at such a ratio that the whole number of representatives shall never SEC. 11. Each House may determine the rules of be less than thirty-six, nor exceed seventy-two. its procee dings, punish its members for disorderly beSEC. 3. The representatives shall be chosen an-havior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, exnually, by the citizens of each county, respectively, pel a member, but not a second time for the same on the second Tuesday of October. cause; and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the Legislature of a free and independent State. SEC. 10. Any two members of either House shall have liberty to dissent from, and protest against, any act or resolution which they may think injurious to the public or any individual, and have the reasons of their dissent entered on the journals. SEC. 4. No person shall be a representative, who shall not have attained the age of twenty five years, and be a citizen of the United States and an inhabit- SEC. 12. When vacancies happen in either House. art of this State; shall also have resided within the the Governor, or the person exercising the power t |