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 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 2 
 
 MR. CROSSER. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To provide for the initiative and referendum and the legisla¬ 
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 Resolved, by the constitutional convention of the state of Ohio, That article 
 
 2 II shall be as follows: 
 
 3 ARTICLE II. 
 
 4 Section i. The legislative power of this state shall be vested in a General 
 
 5 Assembly consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives but the people 
 
 6 reserve to themselves the power to propose laws and amendments to the constitu- 
 
 7 tion, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls independent of the General As- 
 
 8 sembly, and also reserve the power, at their own option, to adopt or reject any 
 
 9 law, item, section or part thereof, passed by the General Assembly. 
 
 10 Section i-A. Initiative. The first aforestated power reserved by the 
 
 11 people is designated the initiative, and the signatures of not more than eight per 
 
 12 centum of the voters shall be required upon a petition to propose any law, and 
 
 13 of not more than twelve per centum upon a petition to propose an amendment to 
 
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 15 When there shall have been presented to the Secretary of State a petition 
 
 16 signed by the aforesaid required number of voters and verified as herein pro- 
 
 17 vided, proposing a law or an amendment to the constitution the full text of which 
 
 18 proposed law or amendment to the constitution shall have been set forth in such 
 
 19 petition, the Secretary of State, shall submit for the approval or rejection of the 
 
 20 voters the proposed law or amendment to-the constitution in the manner herein- 
 
 21 after provided, at the next succeeding regular or general election in any year oc- 
 
 22 curring subsequent to ninety days after presentation of such petition. All such in- 
 
 23 itiative petitions, last above described, shall have printed across the top thereof , in 
 
 24 the case of proposed laws, the following: “Law proposed by initiative petition 
 
 25 to be submitted directly to the Voters.” Or, in case of proposed amendment to 
 
 26 the constitution ; “Amendment to the constitution proposed by Initiative petition 
 
 27 to be submitted directly to the Voters.” 
 
 28 Section i-AA. When at any time, not less than ten days prior to the com- 
 
 29 mencement of any session of the General Assembly, there shall have been pre- 
 
 30 sented to the Secretary of State a petition signed by four per centum of the 
 
 31 voters and verified as herein provided, proposing a law or amendment to the con- 
 
 32 stitution the full text of which shall have been set forth in such petition, the 
 
 33 Secretary of State shall transmit the same to the General Assembly as soon as it 
 
 34 convenes. The proposed law or proposed amendment to the constitution shall 
 
 35 be either approved or rejected without change or amendment by the General As- 
 30 sembly, within sixty days from the time it is received by the General Assembly. 
 
 37 If any such law proposed by petition shall be approved by the General Assembly 
 
 38 it shall be subject to the referendum as herein provided. If any such amendment 
 
 39 to the constitution proposed by petition shall be approved by the General As- 
 
 40 sembly it shall be submitted to the voters. If any law or constitutional amend- 
 
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 Assembly within such sixty days, the Secretary of State shall submit the same to 
 
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 the people for approval or rejection at the next regular or general election in any 
 
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 year. The General Assembly may decline or refuse to pass any such proposed 
 
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 law or constitutional amendment and adopt a different and competing one on the 
 
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 same subject, and in such event both the proposed and competing law or both the 
 
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 All such initiative petitions, last above described, shall have printed across 
 
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 the top thereof in the case of proposed laws, the following: “Law Proposed by 
 
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 Initiative Petition to be First Submitted to the General Assembly,” or in case of 
 
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 proposed amendments to the constitution, “Amendment to the Constitution Pro¬ 
 
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 Ballots shall be so printed as to permit an affirmative or negative vote upon 
 
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 each measure submitted to the voters. 
 
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 Any proposed law or amendment to the Constitution submitted to the voters 
 
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 as provided in Section i-A and Section i-AA, shall go into effect when approved 
 
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 by a majority of those voting upon the same, and shall be published in the same 
 
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 If conflicting proposed laws or conflicting proposed amendments to constitu¬ 
 
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 votes cast for and against the same, the one receiving the highest number of af¬ 
 
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 firmative votes shall be the law or in the-case of amendments to the constitution 
 
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 shall be the amendment to the constitution. No law proposed by initiative petition 
 
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 and approved by the voters shall be subject to the veto power of the Governor. 
 
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 Section i-b. Referendum. The second aforestated power reserved by 
 the people is designated the referendum, and the signatures of not more than six 
 per centum of the voters shall be required upon a petition to order the submission 
 to the voters of the state for their approval or rejection of any law, or any item, 
 section or part of any law passed by the General Assembly. 
 
 No law passed by the General Assembly shall go into effect until ninety 
 days after the final adjournment of the session of the General Assembly which 
 passed the same, except as herein provided. 
 
 When a petition, signed by six per centum of the voters of the state and 
 verified as herein provided, shall have been presented to the Secretary of State 
 within ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the General As¬ 
 sembly which passed the law, ordering that any law or any item, section or part 
 of any law, be submitted to the voters of the state for their approval or rejection, 
 the Secretary of State shall submit to the voters of the state for the approval or 
 rejection, such law, or any item, section or part of any such law, in the manner 
 herein provided, at the next succeeding regular or general election in any year oc¬ 
 curring at a time subsequent to thirty days after the filing of such petition, and 
 no such law or any item, section or part of any such law, shall go into effect until 
 and unless approved by a majority of those voting upon the same. If, however, a 
 referendum petition is filed against any item, section or part of any law, the 
 remainder shall not thereby be prevented or delayed from going into effect. 
 
 Section i-c. Emergency Measures. Acts providing for tax levies, ap¬ 
 propriations for the current expenses of the state and other emergency measures 
 necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, 
 if the same upon a yea and nay vote shall receive the vote of three-fourths of all 
 the members elected to each branch of the General Assembly, shall go into im- 
 
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 94 section of the act, which section shall be passed only upon a yea and nay vote, 
 
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 96 A Referendum petition may be filed upon any such emergency law in the 
 
 97 same manner as upon other laws, but such law shall nevertheless remain in effect 
 
 98 until the same shall have been voted upon, and if it shall then be rejected by a 
 
 99 majority of those voting upon such law, it shall thereafter cease to be law. 
 
 100 Section i-D. Local Initiative and Referendum. The initiative and 
 
 101 referendum powers of the people are hereby further reserved to the voters of 
 
 102 each city, village, county, township, school districts or other political subdivisions 
 
 103 of the state to be exercised in the manner to be provided by law. 
 
 104 Section i-E. General Provisions. Any initiative or referendum petition 
 
 105 may be presented in separate parts but each part shall contain a full and correct 
 
 106 copy of the title, and text of the law, or the proposed law or proposed amendment 
 
 107 to the constitution. Each signer of any initiative or referendum petition shall 
 
 108 also place thereon after his name, his place of residence. Each part of such 
 
 109 petition shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the person soliciting the signa- 
 
 110 tures to the same, stating that each of the signatures attached to such part was 
 
 111 made in his presence, and that to the best of his knowledge and belief each signa- 
 
 112 ture to such part is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports 
 
 113 (to be, and no other affidavit thereto shall be required. The affidavit of any 
 
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 115 verified free of charge by any officer authorized to administer oaths. 
 
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 118 tion. it shall be otherwise proven and in such event ten days shall be allowed for 
 
 119 the tiling of additional signatures to such petition, and no law or amendment to 
 
 120 the constitution submitted to the voters by initiative petition and receiving an 
 
 121 affirmative majority of the votes cast thereon shall ever be held unconstitutional 
 
 122 or void on account of the insufficiency of the petitions by which such submission 
 
 123 of the same shall have been procured; nor shall the rejection of any law sub- 
 
 124 mitted by referendum petition be held invalid for such insufficiency. 
 
 125 One-half of the total number of counties of the state shall each be required 
 
 126 to furnish the signatures of voters equal in number to one-half of the designated 
 
 127 percentage of the voters of such county, upon all initiative or referendum 
 
 128 petitions provided for in any of the sections of this article. 
 
 129 A true copy of all laws or proposed laws or proposed amendments to the 
 
 130 constitution, together with an argument or explanation, or both, for, and also an 
 
 131 argument or explanation, or both, against the same, shall be prepared. The per- 
 
 132 son or persons who prepare the argument or explanation, or both, against any 
 
 133 law submitted to the voters by referendum petition may be named in such peti- 
 
 134 tion and the arguments or explanations, or both, for any proposed law or pro- 
 
 135 posed amendment to the constitution may be named in the petition proposing the 
 
 136 same; the person or persons who prepare the argument or explanation, or both, 
 
 137 for the law submitted to the voters by referendum petition, or for any competing 
 
 138 law or competing amendment to the constitution or against any law submitted 
 
 139 by initiative petition, shall be named by the General Assembly if in session and if 
 
 140 not in session then by the Governor. 
 
 141 The Secretary of State shall have printed the law or proposed law or pro- 
 
 142 posed amendment to the constitution together with the arguments and explana- 
 
 143 tions not exceeding a total of three hundred words for each of the same, and also 
 
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 144 the arguments and explanations not exceeding a total of three hundred words 
 
 145 against each of the same, and shall mail or otherwise distribute a copy of such 
 
 146 law or proposed law or proposed amendment to the constitution together with 
 
 147 such arguments and explanations for and against the same to each of the voters 
 
 148 of the state, as far as reasonably possible. The Secretary of State shall cause to 
 
 149 be placed upon the official ballots the title of any such law or proposed law or 
 
 150 proposed amendment to the constitution to be submitted, and shall cause the 
 
 151 ballots to be so printed as to permit an affirmative or negative vote upon each 
 
 152 law or proposed law or proposed amendment to the constitution. 
 
 153 The style of all laws shall be “Be It Enacted by the People of the State of 
 
 154 Ohio,” and of all constitutional amendments, “Be it Resolved by the People of the 
 
 155 State of Ohio.” 
 
 156 The foregoing sections of this article shall be self executing, but legislation 
 
 157 may be enacted to facilitate their operation, but in no way limiting or restricting 
 
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Ordered printed, as it will appear il the minority report ol the committee on Liquor 
 Traffic is adopfed. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Proposal No. 4 
 
 MR. KING. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit substitute for schedule, Section 18 of the con¬ 
 stitution.—Relating to licensing the traffic in intoxi¬ 
 cating liquors. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal shall be submitted to the electors to amend the constitution by sub- 
 
 3 stituting for Section 18 of the schedule the following: 
 
 4 Section i. At the time when the vote of the electors shall be taken for the 
 
 5 adoption or rejection of any revision, alterations, or amendments made to the 
 
 (J constitution by this convention, the following articles, independently of the sub- 
 
 7 mission of any revision, alterations or other amendments submitted to them, shalll 
 
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 10 The General Assembly, shall be authorized to enact legislation providing for 
 
 11 the licensing of the liquor traffic, but no such legislation shall authorize more 
 
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 than one license in each toivnsliip, or municipality of less than i,ooo population, 
 nor more than one for each j,Ooo population in other townships and municipali¬ 
 ties; provided, however, that any license so granted shall be deemed revoked if 
 in the place operated under such license any law regulating such traffic in intoxi¬ 
 cating liquors is violated. 
 
 And provided further, that nothing herein contained shall inz’alidate, limit 
 or restrict the provisions of any law now in force, relating to such traffic, or in 
 any way limit the right of the General Assembly, under its police pozeer, to 
 provide against the evils resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors. 
 
 Section 2. At said election, a separate ballot shall be in the following 
 form: 
 
 INTOXICATING LIQUORS. 
 
 
 For License. | 
 
 
 Against License, j 
 
 Section 3. Separate ballot boxes shall be provided for the reception of said 
 ballots. 
 
 Section 4 . The voter shall indicate lps choice by placing a cross-mark 
 within the blank space opposite the words “For License” if he desires to vote in 
 favor of license. And opposite the ivords “Against License” within the blank 
 space, if he desires to vote against license, and in favor of allowing Section 9 , 
 Article XV of the present constitution to remain unchanged. If a cross-mark is 
 placed opposite both phrases or neither phrase, then the vote upon that subject 
 shall not be counted. 
 
 Section 5 . If the votes for license shall exceed the votes against license, 
 then the article * * * above mentioned shall become a part of Article XV of the 
 
 
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 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 16 
 
 MR. ELSON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
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 To submit an amendment to Sections 1 - 4 , Article 3 , of the 
 constitution.—Relative to the election of state of¬ 
 ficials. 
 
 Resolved, That a proposal to amend the Constitution shall he submitted to 
 
 2 the electors to read as follows: 
 
 3 Section i. (Executive department.) The executive department shall con- 
 
 4 sist of a governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, 
 6 treasurer of slate, and an attorney general. The governor, lieutenant governor, 
 
 6 and auditor of state shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Mon- 
 
 7 day in November, by the electors of the state, and at the places of voting for 
 
 8 members of the general assembly. 
 
 0 Sect ion 2. (Term of office.) The governor and lieutenant governor shall 
 
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 10 hold their offices for two years, and the auditor for four years. Their terms 
 
 11 of office shall commence on the second Monday of January next after their 
 
 12 election, and continue until their successors are elected and qualified. 
 
 13 Section 5. (Executive powers vested in governor.) The supreme exectt- 
 
 14 tive power of this state shall be vested in the governor. He shall appoint the 
 
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 15 secretary of state, treasurer of state, attorney general, members of the board 
 
 16 of public works, dairy and food commissioner, and commissioner of common 
 
 17 schools, and shall have authority to remove any of said officials so appointed. 
 
 
Ordered printed, as reported by committee on County and Township Organization. 
 
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 Convention. j A Ill. PrOpOSal No. 17 
 
 MR. BAUM. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to article X, sections 2 and 3 of the 
 constitution.—To limit the terms of county officers. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the state of Ohio, That a pro- 
 
 2 posal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows : 
 
 4 ARTICLE X. 
 
 5 Section 2 . County officers shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the 
 
 6 first Monday in November, by the electors of each county in such manner as 
 
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 8 Section 3. No person shall be eligible for re-election for any county office 
 
 9 to succeed himself. The term of such officer shall be four years. The several 
 
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 Proposal No. 64 
 
 MR. MILLER, of Fairfield. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 Relative to the Conservation of our Natural Resources. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows: 
 
 4 The General Assembly, may in order to encourage the propagation, planting 
 
 5 and cultivation of forestry, pass laws exempting from taxation, in whole or in 
 
 6 part, wood lots or plantations devoted exclusively to forestry or to the growing 
 
 7 of forest trees. 
 
 g The General Assembly may also provide for re-foresting and holding as 
 
 <) forest reserves such lands or part of lands as has been or may be forfeited to the 
 
 10 state and they may authorize the acquiring of other lands for that purpose. 
 
Ordered printed as reported by committee on Judiciary and Bill ot Rights. 
 
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 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 134 
 
 MR. HALENKAMP. 
 
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 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article I, of the constitution.— 
 
 Relative to injunctions. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Laws may be passed prescribing rules and regulations, for the conduct of 
 
 5 cases and business in the supreme court and other courts of the state, and for 
 
 0 the regulation of proceedings in contempt, and the limitation of the power to 
 
 7 punish persons adjudged guilty of contempt, and any person charged with con- 
 
 8 tempt, not committed in the presence of the court, shall, upon demand, be 
 
 9 granted a trial by jury. Orders of injunction or other orders of a like character 
 
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 10 or similar effect shall not be made or issued in any case involving the employ- 
 
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 Proposal No. 170 
 
 MR. WORTHINGTON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
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 To submit an amendment to Article XII, Sections i, 2 , 3 and 
 4 , of the constitution, and to renumber present Sections 
 5 and 6 as Sections 6 and 7, respectively — Relative to 
 taxation. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The levying of taxes by the poll is grievous and oppressive; 
 
 5 therefore no poll tax shall ever be levied in this state, nor service required 
 
 6 therein, which may be commuted in money or other thing of value. 
 
 7 Section 2. The general assembly shall provide for raising revenue for 
 
 g each year sufficient to pay the expenses of the state, * * * the interest on 
 
 9 the state debt, the state common school fund of not less than two dollars per 
 
 10 capita of the school enumeration and the university fund of not less than seven 
 
 11 hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be distributed between the state supported 
 
 12 universities as may be provided by law, by excise taxes on successions or inherit- 
 
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 assessment upon the counties of the state, or so many of the sources of revenue 
 aforesaid as the general assembly may deem best. 
 
 Section 3 . Every assessment upon the counties of the state under the 
 preceding section, shall be apportioned among such counties ratably in propor¬ 
 tion to the aggregate amount expended during the preceding year in each county, 
 by the county and all political subdivisions thereof. 
 
 Section 4 . Laws shall be passed applicable to all counties which may elect 
 to be governed thereby, pursuant to section six hereof, providing that the revenue 
 necessary for all purposes of such counties, and all taxing districts therein, shall 
 be raised by taxes levied on the property therein described, which property may 
 be classified; and if it be classified the taxation shall be uniform on all prop¬ 
 erty belonging to the same class, though the rate imposed upon property of 
 one class may differ from that imposed upon property of another class; pro¬ 
 vided, that bonds of the State of Ohio and of any city, village, hamlet, county, 
 township or board of education therein, shall be exempt from taxation. 
 
 Section 5 . Laws shall also be passed, applicable to all counties which may 
 not elect to be governed by the laws to be passed under section four hereof, 
 providing for raising the revenues necessary for such counties and all taxing 
 districts therein by taxing under a uniform rule all moneys, credits, investments 
 in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise, and also all real and per¬ 
 sonal property therein, according to its true value in money, excepting bonds 
 of the State of Ohio, bonds of any city, village, hamlet, county, or township in 
 this state, and bonds issued in behalf of the public schools of Ohio, and the 
 means of instruction in connection therewith, which bonds shall be exempt from 
 taxation; but burying grounds, public schoolhouses, houses used exclusively for 
 
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 in value two hundred dollars, for each individual, may, by general laws, be 
 exempted from taxation; but all such laws shall be subject to alteration or 
 repeal; and the value of all property, so exempetd, shall, from time to time, 
 be ascertained and published as may be directed by law. 
 
 Section 6. At the general election in November, 1915, and every ten 
 years thereafter, the general assembly shall submit to the electors of each county 
 the question whether the revenues necessary for such county and all taxing dis¬ 
 tricts therein shall be raised under the laws then and thereafter passed under 
 section four hereof. If on any such submission the negative votes exceed the 
 affirmative votes in any county, the general assembly may re-submit such ques¬ 
 tion to the electors of such county at any other November election. If on any 
 such decennial or special submission the affirmative votes exceed the negative 
 votes in any county, such county and all taxing districts therein shall be gov- 
 erned by the laws passed pursuant to section four hereof, until on a decennial 
 submission the negative votes' shall exceed the affirmative votes. But no such 
 change of system shall invalidate taxes theretofore assessed and levied pursuant 
 to law. 
 
 Resolved , That section 5 of said article be renumbered as section 6, and 
 
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 Proposal No. 170 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
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 MR. WORTHINGTON. 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XII, Sections 2, 3 and 
 4, of the constitution, and to renumber present Sections 
 5 and 6 as Sections 6 and 7, respectively.—Relative to 
 taxation. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The general assembly shall never levy a poll tax. 
 
 5 Section 2. Property shall never be so classified as to permit taxes to be 
 
 6 levied at different rates for different classes, but all real and personal property, 
 
 7 tangible and intangible, shall be taxed by a uniform rule according to its true 
 
 8 value in money; but burying grounds, public schoolhouses, houses used exclu- 
 
 9 sively for public worship, institutions of purely public charity, public property 
 
 10 used exclusively for any public purpose, personal property to an amount not 
 
 11 exceeding two hundred dollars for each individual, and deductions of bona fide 
 
 12 debts from credits, may, by general laws, be exempted from taxation; but all 
 
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 13 laws providing for such exemptions shall be subject to alteration or repeal. 
 
 14 Section 3. All property employed in banking, shall always bear a burden 
 
 15 of taxation equal to that imposed on the property of individuals. 
 
 16 Section 4. The general assembly shall provide for raising revenue, suf- 
 
 17 ficient to defray the expenses of the state, for each year, and also a sufficient 
 
 18 sum to pay the interest on the state debt. 
 
 19 Section 5. No tax shall be levied, except in pursuance of law; and every 
 
 20 law imposing a tax, shall state, distinctly, the object of the same, to which only, 
 
 21 it shall be applied. 
 
 22 Section 6. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution the state shall 
 
 23 never contract any debt for purposes of internal improvement. 
 
 24 Section 7. The maximum rate of taxes that may be levied for all purposes 
 
 25 shall not in any year exceed ten mills on each dollar of the total value of all 
 
 26 property, as listed and assessed for taxation, in any township, city, village, school 
 
 27 district, or other taxing district. Additional levies, not exceeding in any year 
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 26 all the property therein, as listed and assessed for taxation, in any taxing dis- 
 
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 property, as listed and assessed for taxation in such county, city, village, school 
 district, township, or other taxing district. No indebtedness not payable out 
 of current receipts shall hereafter be created, incurred, refunded, renewed, or 
 extended, without at the same time a coincidental tax being levied, which shall 
 be maintained sufficient to pay principal and interest at maturity. 
 
 Section 8. Laws may be enacted providing for the taxation of the right 
 to receive or succeed to estates, and such tax may be uniform or it may be 
 so graduated as to tax at a higher rate the right to receive or to succeed to 
 estates of larger value than to estates of smaller value. A portion of each 
 estate not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in value may be exempted from 
 such tax. 
 
 Section 9. Laws may be enacted providing for the taxation of incomes, 
 which tax may be either uniform or graduated, and either general or confined 
 to income derived from investments not directly taxed in this state, but a part 
 of each income not exceeding three thousand dollars in any one year may be 
 exempt from such tax. 
 
 Section 10. Taxes may be imposed upon the production of coal, oil, gas 
 and other minerals. 
 
 Section ii. Revenues for the payment of.the expenses of the state may 
 be provided by assessment upon the counties, but every such assessment shall 
 be apportioned among all the counties ratably in proportion to the aggregate 
 amount expended during the preceding year in each county by the county and 
 all political subdivisions thereof. 
 
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ORDERED PRINTED. AS READ THE SECOND TIME. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 170 
 
 MR. WORTHINGTON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XII, Sections i, 2 and 6, 
 of the constitution, and to add thereto sections to be 
 known as Sections 7 and 8.—Relative to taxation. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The levying of taxes by the poll is grevious and oppressing; 
 
 5 therefore no poll tax shall ever be levied in this state, nor service required therein, 
 
 4 which may be commuted in money or other thing of value. 
 
 7 . Section 2. Laws shall be passed, taxing by a uniform rule, all moneys, 
 
 g credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise; and 
 
 9 also all real and personal property according to its true value in money, except- 
 
 10 ing all bonds at present outstanding of the State of Ohio or of any city, village, 
 
 11 hamlet, county, or township in this state or which have been issued in behalf 
 
 12 of the public schools of Ohio and the means of instruction in connection there- 
 
 13 with, which bonds so at present outstanding shall be exempt from taxation; but 
 
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 burying grounds, public school houses, houses used exclusively for public wor¬ 
 ship, institutions of purely public charity, public property used exclusively for 
 any public purpose, and personal property, to an amount not exceeding in value 
 two hundred dollars, for each individual, may by general laws, be exempted 
 from taxation; but all such laws shall be subject to alteration or repeal; and the 
 value of all property, s 0 exempted, shall, from time to time, be ascertained and 
 published as may be directed by law. 
 
 Section 6. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution the state shall 
 never contract any debt for purposes of internal improvement. 
 
 Section 7 . Laws may be enacted providing for the taxation of the right 
 to receive or succeed to estates, and such tax may be uniform or it may be 
 so graduated as to tax at a higher rate the right to receive or to succeed to 
 estates of larger value than to estates of smaller value. A portion of each 
 estate not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in value may be exempted from 
 such tax. 
 
 Section 8. Laws may be enacted providing for the taxation of incomes, 
 which tax may be either uniform or graduated, and either general or confined 
 to income derived from investments not directly taxed in this state, but a part 
 of each income not exceeding three thousand dollars in any one year may be 
 exempt from such tax. 
 
 Section 9 . The maximum rate of taxes that may be levied for all purposes 
 shall not in any year exceed twelve mills on each dollar of the total value of all 
 property, as listed and assessed for taxation in any taxing district wholly outside 
 of municipalities and not to exceed fifteen mills, exclusive of sinking fund and 
 interest charges, in any taxing district wholly or partially within municipalities. 
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ORDERED PRINTED, AS IT WOULD APPEAR IF THE AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. WORTHINGTON 
 
 SHOULD PREVAIL. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 184 
 
 MR. PECK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article IV, Sections i, 2 , and 
 6 , of the constitution.—Relating to the supreme and cir¬ 
 cuit courts.—Judicial. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The judicial power of the state is vested in a supreme court, 
 
 5 appellate courts, courts of common pleas, courts of probate, justices of the peace, 
 
 6 and such other courts inferior to the appellate courts as the General Assembly 
 
 7 may from time to time establish. 
 
 8 Section 2 . The supreme court shall consist of a chief justice and six 
 
 9 judges, and the judges now in office in that court shall continue therein until 
 
 10 the end of the terms for which they were respectively elected, unless they are 
 
 11 removed, die or resign. A majority of the supreme court shall be necessary 
 
 12 to constitute a quorum or pronounce a decision. It shall have original juris- 
 
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 diction in quo warranto, mandamus, habeas corpus, prohibition and procedendo, 
 and appellate jurisdiction in all cases involving questions arising under the con¬ 
 stitution of the United States or of this state, and in cases wherein the death 
 penalty or imprisonment for life has been adjudged against any person by the 
 courts below, also in cases which originated in the appellate courts, and such 
 revisory jurisdiction of the proceedings of administrative officers as may be con¬ 
 ferred by law. It shall hold at least one term in each year at the seat of gov¬ 
 ernment, and such other terms, there or elsewhere, as may be provided by law. 
 The chief justice and the judges of the supreme court shall be elected by t(he 
 electors of the state at large for such terms, not less than six years, * * * 
 
 and they shall be elected, and their official term shall begin, at such time as 
 may now or hereafter be fixed by law. The supreme court may, within such 
 limitation of time as may be prescribed by law, cause the record or records of 
 any judgment or judgments rendered by the appellate courts in cases of public 
 or general interest, or involving the construction of a statute, or where tivo or 
 more appellate courts have rendered conflicting judgments upon the same or 
 similar questions, to be certified to it, and may review, and affirm or modify said 
 judgments or any of them, or reverse the same, and render final judgment or 
 remand the cause for further proceedings. 
 
 Section 6. The state shall be divided into * * * appellate districts 
 of compact territory, and divided by county lines, in each of which there shall 
 be an appellate court consisting of three judges. Until altered by statute the 
 * * * circuits in which circuit courts are now held shall constitute the appel¬ 
 
 late districts aforesaid, and the judges of the circuit courts therein shall consti¬ 
 tute the respective appellate courts, and perform the duties thereof until the ex¬ 
 piration of their respective terms of office; vacancies occurring -prior to such 
 
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 Their successors shall hold office for such term, not less than six years, as may 
 be prescribed by lazv. Vacancies caused by the expiration of the terms of office 
 of the judges of the appellate courts shall be filled by election by the electors 
 of the appellate districts, respectively; in which said vacancies shall arise. Laws 
 shall be passed prescribing the time and mode of such election, and the number 
 of districts or the boundaries thereof may be altered by lazv; but no such change 
 shall abridge the term of any judge then in office; and upon any such change 
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 be re-assigned to duty by the chief justice of the supreme court. The appellate 
 court shall hold one or more terms in each year at such places in the district 
 as the judges may determine upon, and the county commissioners of any county 
 in which the appellate court shall hold sessions shall make proper and convenient 
 provision for the holding of such courts by its judges and officers. Each judge 
 of an appellate court shall be competent to exercise his judicial powers in any 
 appellate district of the state; and provision shall be made by lazv for the rotation 
 of such judges throughout such districts. 
 
 The respective appellate court shall continue the work of the circuit court, 
 and all pending cases and proceedings in the circuit court shall proceed to judg¬ 
 ment and be determined by the appellate court, subject to the provisions hereof, 
 and the existence of the circuit court shall be merged into and its work con- 
 
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 tinued by the appellate court. 
 
 The appellate courts shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, man¬ 
 damus, habeas corpus, prohibition and procedendo, and appellate jurisdiction to 
 review, and affirm, modify, or reverse the judgments of the courts of common 
 pleas and other courts of record within the district, in all cases, and judgments 
 
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 66 Section 2 hereof. The appellate court may certify to the supreme court for 
 
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 68 of that court; and the supreme court may in such cases require the record of 
 
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ORDERED PRINTED. AS IF WOULD APPEAR IF THE AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. TAGGART 
 
 SHOULD PREVAIL. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 ftiSOStfo 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 184 
 
 MR. PECK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article IV, Sections i, 2, and 
 6, of the constitution.—Relating to the supreme and cir¬ 
 cuit courts.—Judicial. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The judicial power of the state is vested in a supreme court, 
 
 5 appellate courts, courts of common pleas, courts of probate, justices of the peace 
 
 6 and such other courts inferior to the appellate court as the General Assembly 
 
 7 may from time to time establish. 
 
 S Section 2. The supreme court shall, until otherwise provided by lazv, con- 
 
 9 sist of a Chief Justice and six judges, and the judges now in office in that court 
 
 49 shall continue therein until the end of the terms for which they were respectively 
 
 11 elected, unless they are removed, die or resign. A majority of the supreme 
 
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 13 as hereinafter provided. It shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, 
 
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 mandamus, habeas corpus, procedendo and appellate jurisdiction in all cases 
 involving questions arising under the constitution of the United States or of 
 this state and in cases wherein the death penalty, or imprisonment for life has 
 been adjudged against any person by the courts below, also in cases which origi¬ 
 nated in the appellate courts and such other appellate jurisdiction as may be 
 conferred by law. It shall hold at least one term in each year at the seat of 
 government and such other terms, there or elsewhere, as may be provided by 
 law. The Chief Justice and the judges of the supreme court shall be elected 
 by the electors of the state at large for such terms, not less than six years, as 
 the General Assembly may prescribe and they shall be elected and their official 
 term shall begin at such time as may now or hereafter be fixed by law. * * * * 
 No statute adopted by the General Assembly shall be held unconstitutional and 
 void by any proceedings in this Court except by the concurrence of five of the 
 judges of the supreme court. 
 
 Section 6. The state shall, until otherwise provided by law , be divided 
 into nine appellate districts of compact territory and divided by county lines in 
 each of which there shall be an appellate court consisting of three judges. * * 
 
 * * The judges of the circuit courts now residing in their respective districts 
 
 shall continue to be judges of the respective appellate courts in such districts 
 and perform the duties thereof until the expiration of their respective terms 
 of office. * * * Vacancies caused by the expirations of the terms of office 
 
 of the judges of the appellate courts shall be filled by the electors of the ap¬ 
 pellate districts respectively in udiich such vacancies shall arise and the same 
 number shall be elected in each district. The General Assembly shall prescribe 
 the time and mode of such election and may alter the number of districts or 
 the boundaries thereof, but no such change shall abridge the term of any judge 
 
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 then in office. The appellate courts shall hold one or more terms in each year 
 in each county of the district , as the judges may determine upon, and the county 
 commissioners of any county in which the appellate courts shall hold sessions 
 shall make proper and convenient provisions for the holding of such courts by 
 its judges and officers. Each judge * * * shall be competent to exercise 
 
 nis judicial powers in any district of the state. 
 
 The repective appellate courts shall continue the work of the circuit court 
 and all pending cases and proceedings in the circuit courts shall proceed to 
 judgment and be determined by the appellate court, subject to the provisions 
 hereof, and the existence of the circuit court shall be merged into and its work 
 continued by the appellate courts. 
 
 The appellate courts shall have like original jurisdiction in quo warranto, 
 mandamus, habeas corpus and procedendo and such other appellate jurisdiction 
 to review, * * * affirm, modify, or reverse the judgments of the courts 
 
 of common pleas and superior courts within the district as may be provided by 
 law. No judgment of the court of common pleas and superior courts shall be 
 reversed except by the concurrence of tivo of the judges of the appellate 
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ORDERED PRINTED. AS IF WOULD APPEAR IF THE AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. TAGGART 
 
 SHOULD PREVAIL. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 184 
 
 MR. PECK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article IV, Sections i, 2 , and 
 6 , of the constitution.—Relating to the supreme and cir¬ 
 cuit courts.—Judicial. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The judicial power of the state is vested in a supreme court, 
 
 5 appellate courts, courts of common pleas, courts of probate, justices of the peace 
 
 6 and such other courts inferior to the appellate court as the General Assembly 
 
 7 may from time to time establish. 
 
 8 Section 2 . The supreme court shall, until otherwise provided by law, con- 
 
 0 sist of a Chief Justice and six judges, and the judges now in office in that court 
 
 10 shall continue therein until the end of the terms for which they were respectively 
 
 11 elected, unless they are removed, die or resign. A majority of the supreme 
 
 12 court shall be necessary to constitute a quorum or pronounce a decision, except 
 
 13 as hereinafter provided. It shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, 
 
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 mandamus, habeas corpus, procedendo and appellate jurisdiction in all cases 
 involving questions arising under the constitution of the United States or of 
 this state and in cases wherein the death penalty, or imprisonment for life has 
 been adjudged against any person by the courts below, also in cases which origi¬ 
 nated in the appellate courts and such other appellate jurisdiction as may be 
 conferred by laze. It shall hold at least one term in each year at the seat of 
 government and such other terms, there or elsewhere, as may be provided by 
 law. The Chief Justice and the judges of the supreme court shall be elected 
 by the electors of the state at large for such terms', not less than six years, as 
 the General Assembly may prescribe and they shall Jae elected and their official 
 term shall begin at such time as may now or hereafter be fixed by law. * * * * 
 No statute adopted by the General Assembly shall be held unconstitutional and 
 void by any proceedings in this Court except by the concurrence of five of the 
 judges of the supreme court. 
 
 Section 6. The state shall, until-otherwise provided by law, be divided 
 into nine appellate districts of compact territory and divided by county lines in 
 each of which there shall be an appellate court consisting of three judges. * * 
 
 * * The judges of the circuit courts now residing in their respective districts 
 
 shall continue to be judges of the respective appellate courts in such districts 
 and perform the duties thereof until the expiration of their respective terms 
 of office. * * * Vacancies caused by the expirations of the terms of office 
 of the judges of the appellate courts shall be filled by the electors of the ap¬ 
 pellate districts respectively in zvhich such vacancies shall arise and the same 
 number shall be elected in each district. The General Assembly shall prescribe 
 
 the time and mode of such. election and may alter the number of districts or 
 
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 in each county of the district, as the judges may determine upon, and the county 
 commissioners of any county in which the appellate courts shall hold sessions 
 shall make proper and convenient provisions for the holding of such courts by 
 its judges and officers. Each judge * * * shall be competent to exercise 
 
 nis judicial powers in any district of the state. 
 
 The repective appellate courts shall continue the work of the circuit court 
 and all pending cases and proceedings in the circuit courts shall proceed to 
 judgment and be determined by the appellate court, subject to the provisions 
 hereof, and the existence of the circuit court shall be merged into and its work 
 continued by the appellate courts. 
 
 The appellate courts shall have like original jurisdiction in quo warranto, 
 mandamus, habeas corpus and procedendo and such other appellate jurisdiction 
 to review, * * * affirm, modify, or reverse the judgments of the courts 
 
 of common pleas and superior courts within the district as may be provided by 
 law. No judgment of the court of common pleas and superior courts shall be 
 reversed except by the concurrence of two of the judges of the appellate 
 
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ORDERED PRINTED, AS IT WOULD APPEAR IF THE AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. PECK 
 
 SHOULD PREVAIL. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
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 Am. Proposal No. 184 
 
 MR. PECK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article IV, Section i, 2 , and 
 6 , of the constitution.—Relating to the supreme and cir- 
 ; r % cuit courts.—Judicial. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio , That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The judicial power of the state is vested in a supreme court, 
 
 5 courts of appeals, courts of common pleas, courts of probate, and such other 
 
 6 courts inferior to the courts of appeals as may from time to time be established 
 
 7 by law. 
 
 g Section 2 . The supreme court shall, until otherwise provided by law, 
 
 9 consist of six judges, and the judges now in office in that court shall continue 
 
 10 therein until the end of the terms for which they were respectively elected, unless 
 
 11 they are removed, die or resign. A majority of the supreme court shall be nec- 
 
 12 essary to constitute a quorum or pronounce a decision, except as hereinafter 
 
 13 provided. It shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, mandamus, habeas 
 
 14 corpus, prohibition, procedendo and appellate jurisdiction in all cases involving 
 
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 15 questions arising under the constitution of the United States or of this state 
 
 16 and in cases of felony on leave first obtained, also in cases which originated in 
 
 17 the courts of appeals and such revisory jurisdiction of the proceedings of ad- 
 
 18 ministrative officers as may be conferred by law. It shall hold at least one 
 
 19 term in each year at the seat of government, and such other terms, there or 
 
 20 elsewhere, as may be provided b)ilaw. The judges of the supreme court shall 
 
 21 be elected by the electors of the state at large for such terms, not less than six 
 
 22 years, and they shall be elected, and their official term shall begin, at such time 
 
 23 as may now or hereafter be fixed by law. 
 
 24 Whenever the judges of the supreme court shall be equally divided in 
 
 25 opinion as to the merits of any case before them and are unable for that reason 
 
 26 to agree upon a judgment that fact shall be entered upon the record and such 
 
 27 entry shall be held to constitute an affirmance of the judgment of the court below. 
 
 28 No statute shall be held unconstitutional and void by any proceedings in 
 
 29 this court except by the concurrence of five of the judges of the supreme court. 
 
 3 Q In cases of public or great general interest the supreme court may, within 
 
 34 such limitation of time as may be prescribed by law, direct the court of appeals 
 
 32 to certify its record to the supreme court and may review and affirm, modify 
 
 33 or reverse the judgment of the court of appeals. 
 
 34 Section 6. The state shall, until otherwise provided by law, be divided 
 
 35 into appellate districts of compact territory and divided by county lines, in each 
 36* of which there shall be a court of appeals consisting of three judges. The judges 
 
 37 of the circuit courts now residing in their respective districts shall continue to 
 
 38 be judges of the respective courts of appeals in such districts and perform the 
 
 39 duties thereof until the expiration of their respective terms of office. Vacancies 
 
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 42 which such vacancies shall arise and the same number shall be elected in each 
 
 43 district. Laws may be enacted to prescribe the time and mode of such election 
 
 44 and to alter the number of districts or the boundaries thereof, but no such 
 
 45 change shall abridge the term of any judge then in office. The court of appeals 
 
 46 shall hold at least one term annually in each county and such other terms at a 
 
 4 T county seat in the district, as the judges may determine upon, and the county 
 
 48 Commissioners of any county in which the court of appeals shall hold sessions 
 
 49 shall make proper and convenient provisions for the holding of such courts by 
 
 50 its judges and officers. Each judge shall be competent to exercise his judicial 
 
 51 powers in any district of the state. 
 
 52 The respective courts of appeals shall continue the work of the circuit 
 
 53 court and all pending cases and proceedings in the circuit courts shall pro- 
 
 54 ceed to judgment and be determined by the courts of appeals, subject to the 
 
 55 provisions hereof, and the existence of the circuit court shall be merged into 
 
 56 and its work continued by the courts of appeals. 
 
 57 The Courts of Appeals shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, 
 
 58 mandamus, habeas corpus, prohibition and procedendo and such other appellate 
 
 59 jurisdiction to review, affirm, modify, or reverse the judgments of the courts 
 
 60 of common pleas and superior courts within the district as may be provided 
 
 61 by law, and judgments of said courts of appeal shall be final in all cases, 
 
 62 except such as involve questions arising under the constitution of this state, 
 
 63 or the United States, or cases of felony, or cases of which it has original juris- 
 
 64 diction, or cases of public or great general interest in which the supreme court 
 
 65 may direct the court of appeals to certify its record to that court. No judg- 
 
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 68 of the evidence and by a majority of such court of appeals upon other ques- 
 
 69 lions and whenever the judges of a court of appeals find that a judgment upon 
 
 70 which they have agreed is in conflict with a judgment pronounced upon the 
 
 71 same question by any court of appeals of the state, the judges shall certify the 
 
 72 record of the case to the supreme court for review and final determination. 
 
 73 The decisions in all cases in the supreme court and courts of appeals shall 
 
 74 he reported, together with the reasons therefor. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED. AS ORDERED ENGROSSED. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 227 
 
 MR. HARRIS, of Ashtabula. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XI, of the constitution.— 
 
 Relative to legislative apportionment. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 ,3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The apportionment for members of the general assembly shall 
 
 5 be made every ten years, prior to the first election for members of the general 
 
 6 assembly in each decennial period, in the manner herein provided. 
 
 7 Section 2. During the month of March, 1913 , also during the month of 
 
 g March, 1921 , and each decennial period thereafter, the members of the senate 
 
 9 and house of representatives representing the two leading political parties, respec- 
 
 10 tively, shall meet in separate bodies, and each of said bodies shall designate 
 
 11 two electors not members of the general assembly who shall forthwith be ap- 
 
 12 pointed by the governor and said four electors so designated and appointed shall 
 
 13 constitute a commission who shall ascertain and determine the ratio of repre- 
 
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 .mentation for members of the house of representatives and senators, the num¬ 
 ber of representatives to which each county is entitled and the boundaries of 
 each senatorial district. Should any vacancy occur in said commission the sena¬ 
 tors of the party making the original designation shall, within ten days there¬ 
 after, designate an elector to fill such vacancy, and he shall forthwith be ap¬ 
 pointed by the governor. 
 
 Sec tion 3 . The population of the state, as ascertained by the preceding 
 federal census, * * * * shall be divided by the number “one hundred” and 
 
 the quotient shall be the ratio o? representation in the house of representatives 
 for the remainder of this decennial period and each decennial period thereafter. 
 
 Section 4 . Each county shall be entitled to at least one representative; 
 
 each county containing such ratio, and one-half over shall be entitled to two 
 
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 representatives; each county containing two and one-half ratios shall be entitled 
 to three representatives, and so on. 
 
 Section 5 . Each county entitled to more than one representative shall be 
 divided by such commission into as many districts as there are representatives 
 apportioned to such county; and one representative shall be chosen from each 
 district. 
 
 Section 6. Each representative district, in counties entitled to more than 
 one representative, shall be composed of compact territory, bounded by election 
 precinct lines, and as nearly equal in population as practicable; and each of 
 such districts shall be numbered. 
 
 Section 7 . The ratio for a senator shall be ascertained by dividing the 
 population of the state by the number “thirty-five.” 
 
 Section 8. The state shall be divided into senatorial districts, as herein 
 
 provided, and each district shall choose one senator. 
 
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 41 tory, as nearly equal in population as practicable, and except as to districts in 
 
 42 counties entitled to two or more senators, shall be bounded by county lines. 
 
 43 Section 10. Each county having a population equal to * * * one 
 
 44 senatorial ratio shall constitute a senatorial district. Each county having a 
 
 45 population equal to one senatorial ratio, and one-half over, shall be divided into 
 
 46 . two senatorial districts. Each county having a population equal to two and one- 
 
 47 half ratios shall be divided into three senatorial districts, and so on; but no 
 
 48 election precinct shall be divided in the formation of a senatorial district. 
 
 49 Section ii. The apportionment so made for members of the general as- 
 
 50 sembly shall be reported to the governor, by such commission, within two months 
 
 51 after their appointment, and the general assembly shall provide by law for pnb- 
 
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Ordered printed, as reported by committee on Judiciary and Bill of Rights. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 230 
 
 MR. TETLOW. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 Relative to the end that the judicial interpretation of the 
 constitution will permit of the conservation of minerals. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 The general assembly shall have full power to provide for the conservation 
 
 5 of all the natural resources of the state, and may provide for the regulation of 
 0 the mining, weighing, measuring and marketing of all minerals. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND BILL OF RIGHTS. 
 
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 Sub. Proposal No. 240 
 
 MR. ANDERSON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article I, of the Constitution.— 
 
 In relation to damages for wrongful death. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 .proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 The right of action to recover damages for injuries resulting in death shall 
 
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 6 tion as to amount, but the recovery must be for the full amount of all damages 
 
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 Am. Proposal No 241 
 
 MR. DWYER. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article II, Section 23 , of the 
 constitution.—Relating to impeachment of officials. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section 23. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of 
 
 5 impeachment of the governor, supreme court judges, and all state officers, for 
 
 (> any misconduct or misdemeanor in office, but a majority of the members elected 
 
 7 must concur therein. Such impeachments shall be tried by the Senate; and 
 
 g the senators, when sitting for that purpose, shall be upon oath or affirmation 
 
 9 to do justice according to the law and the evidence. No person shall be con- 
 
 10 victed without the concurrence of two-thirds of the senators. 
 
 11 Impeachment proceedings of judges inferior in rank to the supreme court 
 
 12 for misdemeanor or misconduct in office, may be preferred in writing before 
 
 13 the supreme court by the attorney general of his own motion, or, on petition 
 
 14 to him for such purpose, by at least five attorneys or ten citizens of the county 
 
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 16 and decided by the supreme court, the mode of procedure to be provided by law. 
 
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 Am. Proposal No. 261 
 
 MR. HALENKAMP. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XV, Section n, of the 
 constitution. — Relative to state printing. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: . 
 
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 4 The printing of the laws, journals, bills, legislative documents and papers 
 
 5 for each branch of the General Assembly, with the printing required for the 
 
 6 executive and other departments of state, shall be let, on contract, to the low- 
 
 7 est responsible bidder by the state supervisor of public printing, or may be done 
 
 8 direct by the state through the department of public printing, in such manner 
 
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 Sub. Proposal No. 330 
 
 MR. DWYER. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article IV of the constitution.— 
 n Relative to dividing the state into appellate court districts. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
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 4 Until further provided by law the state is hereby divided into ten appellate 
 
 5 court districts as follows: 
 
 £ ' The present first, third, fifth, sixth and eighth judicial circuits shall each 
 
 7 constitute with the same numbering, counties and boundaries, the first, third, 
 
 g fifth, sixth and eighth appellate court judicial districts. 
 
 9 The counties of Preble, Darke, Shelby, Champaign, Miami, Montgomery 
 
 10 and Greene shall constitute the second appellate court judicial district. 
 
 11 The counties of Brown, Adams, Highland, Pickaway, Ross, Pike, Scioto, 
 
 12 Lawrence, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton, Hocking and Athens shall constitute 
 
 13 the fourth appellate court judicial district. 
 
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 14 The counties of Lake, Ashtabula, Geauga, Trumbull, Portage and Mahoning 
 
 15 shall constitute the seventh appellate court judicial district. 
 
 16 The counties of Columbiana, Jefferson, Belmont, Harrison, Carroll, Monroe, 
 
 17 Noble, Guernsey and Washington shall constitute the ninth appellate court judi- 
 
 18 cial district 
 
 19 The counties of Franklin, Madison, Clark and Fayette shall constitute the 
 
 20 tenth appellate court judicial district. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 16 
 
 MR. ELSON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Sections 1-4, Article 3, of the 
 constitution.—Relative to the election of state of¬ 
 ficials. 
 
 Resolved, That a proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to 
 
 2 the electors to read as follows: 
 
 3 Section i. (Executive department.) The executive department shall con- 
 
 4 sist of a governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, 
 6 tieasunr of state, and an attorney general. The governor, lieutenant governor, 
 
 6 and auditor of state shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first M011- 
 
 7 day in November, by the electors of the state, and at the places of voting for 
 
 8 members of the general assembly. 
 
 9 Suction 2. (Term of office.) The governor and lieutenant governor shall 
 
 10 hold their offices for two years, and the auditor for four years. Their terms 
 
 11 of office shall commence on the second Monday of January next after their 
 
 12 election, and continue until their successors are elected and qualified. 
 
 13 Section 5. (Executive powers vested in governor.) The supreme execu- 
 
 14 tive power of this state shall be vested in the governor. Fie shall appoint the 
 
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 15 secretary of state, treasurer of state, attorney general, members of the board 
 
 16 of public works, dairy and food commissioner, and commissioner of common 
 
 17 schools, and shall have authority to remove any of said officials so appointed. 
 
 
ORDERED PRINTED 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 54 
 
 MR. ELSON. 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article I, Section 5 , of the consti¬ 
 tution.—Relative to the reform of the jury system. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE I. 
 
 5 Section 5. The right of trial by jury shall be inviolate; but the General 
 
 6 Assembly may authorize that in civil cases a verdict may be rendered by the con- 
 
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 MR. KILPATRICK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article—, Section—, of the 
 Constitution.—Relative to equal suffrage. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. At the time when the vote of the electors shall be taken 
 
 5 for the adoption or rejection of any revision, alteration or amendments made 
 (i to the constitution by this Convention, the following article, independently of 
 
 7 the submission of any revision, alteration or other amendments submitted to 
 
 8 then, shall be separately submitted to the electors in the words following, 
 
 9 to-wit : 
 
 10 FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE. 
 
 11 Every citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who 
 
 12 shall have been a resident of the state one year preceding the election, and 
 
 13 of the county, township or ward in which he or she resides such time as may 
 
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 Section 2 . At such election a separate ballot shall be in the following 
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 ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. 
 
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 For Equal Suffrage. 
 
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 Against Equal Suffrage. 
 
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 Section 3 . Separate ballot boxes shall be provided for the reception of 
 such ballots. 
 
 Section 4. The voter shall indicate his choice by placing a cross-mark 
 within the blank space opposite the words, “For Equal Suffrage”, if he desire 
 to vote in favor of the article above mentioned, and opposite the words, 
 “Against Equal Suffrage”, within the blank space, if he desire to vote against 
 the article above mentioned. 
 
 Section 5 . If the votes for equal suffrage shall exceed the votes against 
 equal suffrage, then the section above mentioned shall take the place of Article 
 V, Section 1 , of the constitution, regardless of whether any revision, alteration 
 or other amendments submitted to the people shall be adopted or rejected. 
 
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 Proposal No. 
 
 MR. EARNHART. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XIII, Section 3 , of the 
 Constitution.—Relative to the protection of hank and 
 other deposits. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That ? 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Dues from private corporations shall be secured by such means as may be 
 
 5 prescribed by law, but in no case shall any stockholder be individually liable 
 
 (; otherwise than for the unpaid stock owned by him or her; except that stock- 
 
 7 holders or corporations authorized to rcecive money on deposit shall be held 
 
 S individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all 
 
 <) contracts, debts, and engagements of such corporations, to the extent of the 
 
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 Sub. Proposal No. 100 
 
 MR. FACKLER. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
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 To submit an amendment to Article IA r , Section 9 , of the con¬ 
 stitution.—Relative to Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall he submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows: 
 
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 5 Section 9 . A competent number of justices of the peace shall be elected 
 
 6 by the electors in each township in the several counties. Their term of office shall 
 
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 9 than a mayor’s court, is f>r may hereafter be maintained with the jurisdiction of 
 
 10 all causes of which justices of the peace are given jurisdiction, and no justices. 
 1 ] of the peace shall have or exercise jurisdiction in such township. 
 
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 Proposal No. 151 
 
 MR. ANDERSON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XXX, Section 18, of 
 Schedule of the Constitution.—Relative to the Liquor 
 Traffic. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal shall be submitted to the electors to amend the constitution by substi- 
 
 3 tuting for section 18 of the schedule the following: 
 
 4 Section i. At the time when the vote of the electors shall be taken for the 
 
 5 adoption or rejection of any revision, alterations, or amendments made to the 
 
 6 constitution by this Convention, the following article, independently of the sub- 
 
 7 mission of any revision, alterations or other amendments submitted to them, shall 
 g be separately submitted to the electors in the words following, to-wit: 
 
 9 FOR LICENSE. 
 
 10 License to traffic in intoxicating liquors shall hereafter be granted in this. 
 
 11 state, and license laws operative throughout the state shall be passed with such 
 
 12 restrictions and regulations as the general assembly may provide, and the gen- 
 
 13 eral assembly shall authorize municipal corporations to provide for the limita- 
 
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 14 tion of the number of saloons, under general laws applicable thereto,' provided 
 
 15 that where traffic is or may be prohibited under laws applying to counties, mu- 
 
 16 nicipalities, townships, residence districts, or other districts prescribed by law, 
 
 17 the traffic shall not be licensed in any such local subdivision while any prohibi¬ 
 ts tory law is operative therein, and nothing herein contained shall be so construed 
 
 19 as to repeal, modify or suspend any such prohibitory laws, or any regulatory law 
 
 20 now or hereafter enacted, or to prevent the future enactment, modification or re- 
 
 21 peal of any similar prohibitory or regulatory laws. 
 
 22 No license shall be granted to any person who at the time of making such 
 
 23 application is not a citizen of the United States and of good moral character. 
 
 24 No license shall be granted to any applicant who is in any way or manner in- 
 
 25 terested in the business conducted at any other place where intoxicating bever- 
 
 26 ages are sold or kept for sale, nor shall such license be granted unless the appli- 
 
 27 cant or applicants are the only persons in any way or manner pecuniarily inter- 
 
 28 ested in the business asked to be licensed, and that no other person shall in any 
 
 29 manner whatsoever be in any way interested therein during the continuance of 
 
 30 the license, and if such interest of such person be made to appear, the said license 
 
 31 shall be deemed revoked. 
 
 32 If any licensee is more than once convicted for a violation of the laws in 
 
 33 force to regulate the traffic in intoxicating liquors, the license of said licensee 
 
 34 shall be deemed revoked, and no license shall thereafter be granted to such con- 
 
 35 victed licensee. 
 
 36 No application for license shall be granted unless the business for which li- 
 
 37 cense is allowed shall be located in the same county or an adjoining county to 
 
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 municipality of less than five hundred population, nor more than one for each five 
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 Section 2 . At said election a ballot shall be in the following form: 
 
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 within the blank space opposite the words “For License” if he desires to vote in 
 favor of the article above mentioned and opposite the words “Against License,” 
 within the blank space if he desires to vote against said article. If a cross-mark 
 
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 Am. Proposal No. 184 
 
 MR. PECK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article IV, Sections i, 2, 
 and 6. of the constitution. Relating to the supreme 
 and circuit courts.—Judicial. 
 
 Resolved , by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The judicial power of the state is vested in a supreme court, 
 
 5 courts of appeal, courts of common pleas, courts of probate, justices of the 
 
 6 peace and such other courts inferior to the supreme court as the general assembly 
 
 7 may from time to time establish. 
 
 8 Section 2. The supreme court shall consist of six judges and the judges 
 
 9 now in office in that court shall continue therein until the end of the terms tor 
 
 10 which they were respectively elected, unless they are removed, die or resign. A 
 
 11 majority of the supreme court shall be necessary to constitute a quorum or pro- 
 
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 12 nounce a decision. It shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, man- 
 
 13 damns, habeas corpus, procedendo and appellate jurisdiction in all cases involving 
 
 14 questions arising under the constitution of the United States or of this state and 
 
15 in cases wherein the death penalty, or imprisonment for life has been adjudged 
 
 16 against any person by the courts below, also in cases which originated in the courts 
 
 17 of appeal. It shall hold at least one term in each year at the seat of government 
 
 18 and such other terms, there or elsewhere, as may be provided by law. The judges 
 
 19 of the supreme court shall be elected by the electors of the state at large for 
 
 20 such terms, not less than six years, as the general assembly may prescribe and 
 
 21 they shall be elected and their official term shall begin at such time as may now 
 
 22 or hereafter be fixed by law. Whenever the judges of. the supreme court shall 
 
 28 be equally divided in opinion as to the merits of any case before them and are 
 
 24 unable for that reason to agree upon a judgment that fact shall be entered 
 
 25 upon the record and such entry shall be held to constitute an affirmance of the 
 
 26 judgment of the court below, and no statute adopted by the general assembly 
 
 27 shall be held unconstitutional and void except by the concurrence of all the 
 
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 29 the supreme court may direct the court of appeals to certify its record to the 
 
 30 supreme court and may review and affirm, modify or reverse the judgment of 
 
 31 such court of appeals. 
 
 32 Section 6 . The state shall be divided into eight appellate districts of 
 
 33 compact territory and divided by county lines in each of which there shall be 
 
 34 a court of appeals consisting of three judges and, until altered by statute, the 
 
 35 eight circuits in which circuit courts are now held shall constitute the appel- 
 
 36 late districts aforesaid, and the judges of the circuit courts therein shall con- 
 
 37 stitute the respective courts of appeal and perform the duties thereof until 
 
 38 the expiration of their respective terms of office, unless they are removed, 
 
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 term of office of such judges and the time and mode of their election may be 
 changed from time to time by the general assembly, and their number may be 
 likewise increased. The number of districts and boundaries thereof shall be 
 prescribed by law. The court of appeals shall hold one or more terms in each 
 year at such places in the district as the judges may determine upon, and the 
 county commissioners of any county in which the court of appeals shall hold 
 sessions shall make proper and convenient provision for the holding of such 
 courts by its judges and officers. Each judge of a court of appeals shall be com¬ 
 petent to exercise his judicial powers in any district of the state. 
 
 The respective courts of appeal shall continue the work of the circuit court 
 and all pending cases and proceedings in the circuit court shall proceed to 
 judgment and be determined by the court of appeals, subject to the provisions 
 hereof, and the existence of the circuit court shall be merged into and its work 
 continued by the court of appeals. 
 
 The courts of appeal shall have * * * original jurisdiction in quo warranto, 
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 and affirm, modify, or reverse the judgments of the courts of common pleas and 
 superior courts within the district, in all cases, and judgments of said courts of 
 appeal shall be final in all * * * cases, except such as involve questions arising 
 under the constitution of this state, or the United States, or cases of the infliction 
 of the penalty of death, or of imprisonment for life, or cases of which it has 
 original jurisdiction. No judgment of the court of common pleas shall be re¬ 
 versed except by the concurrence of all the judges of the court of appeals 
 sitting in the case and whenever! the judges of a court of appeals find that a judg¬ 
 ment which they have agreed upon is in conflict with a judgment pronounced 
 
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 Convention. 
 
 MR. TAGGART. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Schedule No. 4. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 8 follows: 
 
 4 That the several amendments passed by this Convention or any of the same 
 
 5 when adopted at the election shall take effect on the first day of January, 1913, 
 
 6 except as otherzvise specifically provided in any of the said amendments. And 
 
 7 all laws then in force not inconsistent therewith shall continue in force until 
 
 8 amended or repealed; provided that all cases pending in the courts at the time 
 
 9 this amendment takes effect shall be heard and tried in the same manner and 
 
 10 by the same procedure as is nozv authorized by lazv. 
 
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 MR. CROSSER. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To provide for the initiative and referendum and the legis¬ 
 lative power. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That 
 
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 2 Section i. At the time when the vote of the electors shall be taken for 
 
 3 the adoption or rejection of any revision, alteration or amendments made to the 
 
 4 constitution by this Convention, the following amendment, independently of the 
 
 5 submission of any revision, alteration or other amendments submitted to them, 
 g shall be separately submitted to the electors, namely, that Article II, Section i, 
 
 7 shall be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 8 ARTICLE II. 
 
 9 Section i. The legislative power of the state shall be vested in a General 
 
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 11 reserve to themselves the power to propose laws and amendments to the con- 
 13 stitution, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls independent of the 
 
 13 General Assembly, and also reserve the power, at their own option, to adopt 
 
 14 or reject any law, section of any law or any item appropriating money in any 
 
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 limitations on the power of the people to enact laws. 
 
 Section i-a. Initiative. The first aforestated power reserved by the 
 people is designated the Initiative, and the signatures of twelve per centum of 
 the electors shall be required upon a petition to propose an amendment to the 
 constitution. 
 
 When there shall have been filed with the Secretary of State a petition 
 signed by the aforesaid required number of electors, and verified as herein pro¬ 
 vided, proposing an amendment to the constitution the full text of which proposed 
 amendment to the constitution shall have been set forth in such petition, the 
 Secretary of State shall submit for the approval or rejection of the electors the 
 proposed amendment to the constitution in the manner hereinafter provided, 
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 petitions, above described, shall have printed across the top thereof: “Amend¬ 
 ment to the Constitution Proposed by Initiative Petition to be Submitted Directly 
 to the Electors.” 
 
 Section i-b. When at any time, not less than ten days prior to the com¬ 
 mencement of any session of the General Assembly, there shall have been filed 
 with the Secretary of State a petition signed by six per centum of the 
 
 electors and verified as herein provided, proposing a law, or a petition signed 
 
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 by eight per centum of the electors and verified as herein provided, proposing 
 an amendment to the constitution, the full text of which shall have been set 
 forth in such petition, the Secretary of State shall transmit the same to the 
 General Assembly as soon as it convenes. The proposed law or proposed amend¬ 
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 is received by the General Assembly. If any such law proposed by petition 
 shall be approved by the General Assembly it shall be subject to the referendum 
 as herein provided. If any such amendment to the constitution proposed by 
 petition shall be approved by the General Assembly it shall be submitted to 
 the electors. If any law or constitutional amendment so petitioned for be 
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 four months, the Secretary of State shall submit the same to the electors for 
 approval or rejection at the next regular or general election in any year. The 
 General Assembly may decline or refuse to pass any such proposed law or 
 
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 subject, and in such event both the proposed and competing law or both the 
 proposed and competing constitutional amendment shall be submitted by the 
 Secretary of State to the electors for approval or rejection at the next regular 
 or general election in any year. 
 
 All such initiative petitions last above described, shall have printed across 
 the top thereof in the case of proposed laws, the following: “Law Proposed 
 by Initiative Petition to be First Submitted to the General Assembly,” or in case 
 of proposed amendments to the constitution: “Amendment to the Constitution 
 Proposed by Initiative Petition to be First Submitted to the General Assembly.” 
 
 Ballots shall be so printed as to permit an affirmative or negative vote upon 
 each measure submitted to the electors. 
 
 Any proposed law or amendment to the constitution submitted to the 
 electors as provided in Section i-a and Section i-b, if it is approved by a majority 
 of the electors voting thereon, shall take effect thirty days after the election 
 
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 number of votes cast for and against the same, the one receiving the highest 
 number of affirmative votes shall be the law or in the case of amendments to 
 
 the constitution shall be the amendment to the constitution. No law proposed 
 by initiative petition and approved by the electors shall be subject to the veto 
 
 power of the Governor. 
 
 Section i-c. Referendum. The second aforestated power reserved by 
 
 the people is designated the Referendum, and the signatures of six per centum 
 of the electors shall be required upon a petition to order the submission to the 
 electors of the state for their approval or rejection, of any law, section of any 
 law or any item appropriating money in any law passed by the General Assembly. 
 
 No law passed by the General Assembly shall go into effect until ninety 
 days after the same shall have been filed by the Governor in the office of the 
 Secretary of State, except as herein provided. 
 
 When a petition, signed by six per centum of the electors of the state 
 and verified as herein provided, shall have been filed with the Secretary of 
 State within ninety days after any law shall have been filed by the Governor 
 in the office of the Secretary of State, ordering that such law, section of such 
 law or any item appropriating money in such law, be submitted to the electors 
 of the state for their approval or rejection, the Secretary of State shall submit 
 to the electors of the state for their approval or rejecion such law, item or 
 
 section, in the manner herein provided, at the next succeeding regular or general 
 
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 election in any year occurring at a time subsequent to sixty days after the filing 
 of such petition, and no such law, item or section, shall go into effect until 
 
 and unless approved by a majority of those voting upon the same. If, however, 
 
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 94 a referendum petition is filed against any such item or section, the remainder 
 
 95 of the law shall not thereby be prevented or delayed from going into effect. 
 
 96 Section i-d. Emergency Measures. Acts providing for tax levies, ap- 
 
 97 propriations for the current expenses of the state government and state institu- 
 
 98 tions and emergency measures necessary for the immediate preservation of the 
 
 99 public peace, health or safety, if such emergency measures upon a yea and nay 
 
 100 vote shall receive the vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each 
 
 101 branch of the General Assembly, shall go into immediate effect, but the facts con- 
 
 102 stituting such necessity shall be set forth in one section of the act, which section 
 
 103 shall be passed only upon a yea and nay vote, upon a separate roll call thereon. 
 
 104 The acts mentioned in this section shall never be subject to the referendum. 
 
 105 Section i-e. The powers defined herein as the “Initiative” and the 
 
 106 “Referendum” shall never be used to enact a law authorizing any classification 
 
 107 of property for the purpose of levying different rates of taxation thereon or 
 
 108 of authorizing any single tax on land or land values or land sites at a higher 
 
 109 rate or by a different rule than is or may be applied to improvements thereon 
 
 110 or to personal property. 
 
 111 Section i-f. Local Initiative and Referendum. The initiative and 
 
 112 referendum powers of the people are hereby further reserved to the electors 
 
 113 of each municipality on all questions which such municipalities may now or 
 
 114 hereafter be authorized by law to control by legislative action, such powers to 
 
 115 be exercised in the manner now or hereafter provided by law. 
 
 116 Section i-g. General Provisions. Any initiative or referendum petition 
 
 117 may be presented in separate parts but each part shall contain a full and correct 
 
 118 copy of the title, and text of the law, section or item thereof sought to be 
 
 119 referred, or the proposed law or proposed amendment to the constitution. Each 
 
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120 signer of any initiative or referendum petition must be an elector of the state 
 
 121 and shall place on such petition after his name the date of signing and his 
 
 122 place of residence. In the case of a signer residing outside of a municipality 
 
 123 he shall state the township and county in which he resides and in case of a 
 
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 124 resident of a municipality in addition to the name of such municipality he shall 
 
 125 state the street and number, if any, of his residence and the ward and precinct 
 
 126 in which the same is located. The names of all signers to such petitions shall 
 
 127 be written in ink, each signer for himself. Each part of such petition shall 
 
 128 have attached thereto the affidavit of the person soliciting the signatures to the 
 
 129 same, which affidavit shall contain a statement of the number of the signers 
 
 130 of such petition and shall state that each of the signatures attached to such 
 
 131 part was made in the presence of the affiant, that to the best of his knowledge 
 
 132 and belief each signature to such part is the genuine signature of the person 
 
 133 whose name it purports to be, that he believes the persons who have signed 
 
 134 it to be electors, that they so signed said petition with knowledge of the con- 
 
 135 tents thereof, that each signer signed the same on the date stated opposite his 
 
 136 name, and no other affidavit thereto shall be required. 
 
 137 The petition and signatures upon such petitions, so verified, shall be pre- 
 
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 438 sumed to be in all respects sufficient, unless not later than forty days before 
 
 139 election, it shall be otherwise proven and in such event ten additional days shall 
 
 140 be allowed for the filing of additional signatures to such petition, and no law 
 
 141 or amendment to the constitution submitted to the electors by initiative petition 
 
 142 and receiving an affirmative majority of the votes cast thereon shall ever be 
 
 143 held unconstitutional or void on account of the insufficiency of the petitions by 
 
 144 which such submission of the same shall have been procured; nor shall the 
 
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 145 rejection of any law submitted by referendum petition be held invalid for such 
 
 146 insufficiency. 
 
 147 Upon all initiative and referendum petitions provided for in any of the 
 
 148 sections of this article, it shall be necessary to file from each of one-half of 
 
 149 the counties of the state petitions bearing the signatures of not less than one- 
 
 150 half of the designated percentage of the electors of such county. 
 
 151 A true copy of all laws or proposed laws or proposed amendments to the 
 
 152 constitution, together with an argument or explanation, or both, for, and also 
 
 153 an argument or explanation, or both, against the same, shall be prepared. The 
 
 154 person or persons who prepare the argument or explanation, or both, against 
 
 155 any law, section or item, submitted to the electors by referendum petition may 
 
 156 be named in such petition and the persons who prepare the arguments or ex- 
 
 157 planations, or both, for any proposed law or proposed amendment to the con- 
 
 158 stitution may be named in the petition proposing the same. The person or 
 
 159 persons who prepare the argument or explanation, or both, for the law, section 
 
 160 or item, submitted to the electors by referendum petition, or for any competing 
 
 161 law or competing amendment to the constitution or against any law submitted 
 
 162 by initiative petition, shall be named by the General Assembly, if in session, 
 
 163 and if not in session then by the Governor. 
 
 164 The Secretary of State shall have printed the law or proposed law or 
 
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 165 proposed amendment to the constitution together with the arguments and ex- 
 
 166 planations, not exceeding a total of three hundred words for each of the same, 
 
 167 and also the arguments and explanations not exceeding a total of three hundred 
 
 168 words against each of the same, and shall mail or otherwise distribute a copy 
 
 169 of such law or proposed law or proposed amendment to the constitution together 
 
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 170 with such arguments and explanations for and against the same to each of the 
 
 171 electors of the state, as far as reasonably possible. 
 
 172 Unless otherwise provided by law, the Secretary of State shall cause to 
 
 173 be placed upon the official ballots the title of any such law or proposed law or 
 
 174 proposed amendment to the constitution to be submitted. He shall also cause 
 
 175 the ballots to be so printed as to permit an affirmative or negative vote upon 
 
 176 each law, section of law or item appropriating money in a law^or proposed 
 
 177 law or proposed amendment to the constitution. 
 
 178 When competing laws or competing amendments to the constitution are 
 
 179 submitted to the electors the ballots shall be so printed that the elector can 
 
 180 express separately by making one crossmark (X) for each, two preferences, 
 
 181 first, as between “either measure” and “neither measure,” and secondly, as 
 
 182 between one and the other. If the majority of the votes cast on the first issue 
 
 183 is for “neither measure,” both measures fail of adoption. If a majority of the 
 
 184 votes cast on the first issue is in favor of “either measure,” then the measure 
 
 185 receiving a majority of the votes cast on the second issue shall be the law 
 
 186 or the amendment to the constitution as the case may be. 
 
 187 The style of all laws submitted by initiative petition shall be: “Be It 
 
 188 Enacted by the People of the State of Ohio,” and of all constitutional amend- 
 
 189 ments: “Be It Resolved by the People of the State of Ohio.” 
 
 190 The basis upon which the required number of petitioners in any case shall „ 
 
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 191 be determined shall be the total number of votes cast for the office of governor 
 
 192 at the last preceding election therefor. 
 
 193 The foregoing provisions of this section shall be self-executing, except as 
 
 194 herein otherwise provided. Legislation may be enacted to facilitate their opera- 
 
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 195 tion, but in no way limiting or restricting either such provisions or the powers 
 
 196 herein reserved. 
 
 19Y Section 2. At such election a separate ballot in the following form shall 
 
 198 be furnished each elector desiring to vote. 
 
 199 Initiative and Referendum. 
 
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 I j For Initiative and Referendum. 
 
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 | Against Initiative and Referendum. 
 
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 200 Section 3. Separate ballot boxes shall be provided for the reception of 
 
 201 such ballots. 
 
 202 Section 4. The elector shall indicate his choice by placing a crossmark 
 
 203 within the blank space opposite the words, “For Initiative and Referendum,” 
 
 204 if he desire to vote in favor of the amendment above mentioned, and within 
 
 205 the blank space opposite the words, “Against Initiative and Referendum,” if he 
 
 206 desire to vote against the amendment above mentioned. 
 
 207 Section 5. If the votes for Initiative and Referendum shall exceed the 
 
 208 votes against Initiative and Referendum, then the section above mentioned shall 
 
 209 take the place of Article II, Section 1, of the constitution, regardless of whether 
 
 210 any revision, alteration or other amendments submitted to the people shall be 
 
 211 adopted or rejected. 
 
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Ordered printed, as it will appear if the minority report ol the committee on Liquor 
 Traffic is adopted. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Proposal No. 4 
 
 MR. KING. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit substitute for schedule, Section 18 of the con¬ 
 stitution.—Relating to licensing the traffic in intoxi¬ 
 cating liquors. 
 
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 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the Staje of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 T proposal shall be submitted to the electors to amend the constitution by sub- 
 
 3 stituling for Section 18 of the schedule the following: 
 
 4 Section i. At the time when the vote of the electors shall be taken for the 
 
 5 adoption or rejection of any revision, alterations, or amendments made to the 
 (} constitution by this convention, the following articles, independently of the sub- 
 
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 7 mission of any revision, alterations or other amendments submitted to them, shall 
 
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 g be separately submitted to the electors in the alternative in the words following, 
 9 to-wit: 
 
 ' 10 The General Assembly, shall be authorized to enact legislation providing for 
 
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 the licensing of the liquor traffic, but no such legislation shall authorize more 
 
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 than one license in each township, or municipality of less than 1,000 population, 
 nor more than one for each i,ooo population in other townships and municipali¬ 
 ties; provided, however, that any license so granted shall be deemed revoked if 
 in the'place operated under such license any law regulating such traffic in into.ri- 
 eating liquors is violated. 
 
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 And provided further, that nothing herein contained shall invalidate, limit 
 or restrict the provisions of any law now in force, relating to such traffic, or in 
 any itfay limit the right of the General Assembly, under its police power, to 
 provide against the evils resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors. 
 
 Section 2. At said election, a separate ballot shall be in the following 
 form: 
 
 INTOXICATING LIQUORS. 
 
 1 i ; 1 
 
 | For License. 
 
 1 1 _j 
 
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 | Against License. | 
 
 I I _1 
 
 Section 3. Separate ballot boxes shall be provided for the reception of said 
 ballots. 
 
 Section 4. The voter shall indicate his choice by placing a cross-mark 
 within the blank space opposite the words “For License” if he desires to vote in 
 favor of license. And opposite the words “Against License” within the blank 
 space, if he desires to vote against license, and in favor of allowing Section 9, 
 Article XV of the present constitution to remain unchanged. If a cross-mark is 
 placed opposite both phrases or neither phrase, then the vote upon that subject 
 shall not be counted. 
 
 Section 5. If the votes for license shall exceed the votes against license, 
 
 then the article * * * above mentioned shall become a part of Article XV of the 
 
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 35 constitution, regardless of whether any revision, alterations, or other amendments 
 
 36 submitted to the people shall be adopted or rejected. And if the votes against 
 
 37 license shall exceed those for license, then Section p. Article XV of the present 
 
 38 constitution shall remain unchanged. 
 
The words appearing in red are amend= 
 
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 ments suggested. 
 
 The words with red lines through them 
 are words to be stricken out by amend= 
 ments. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
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 Proposal No. 4 
 
 MR. KING. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit substitute for section 9 of article 15 , otherwise 
 known as schedule , section 18 0 f the schedule of the 
 constitution.—Relating to licensing the traffic in in¬ 
 toxicating liquors. 
 
 ♦ 
 
 Resolved by the constitutional convention of the state of Ohio, That a pra- 
 
 2 posal shall be submitted to the electors to amend the constitution by substituting 
 
 3 for section 9 of article 15 18 , oLtlis.schedule the following: 
 
 4 Section i. At the time when the vote of the electors shall be taken for the 
 
 5 adoption or rejection of any revision, alterations, or amendments made to the 
 3 constitution by this convention, the following articles, independently of the sub- 
 7 mission of any revision, alterations or other amendments submitted to them, shall 
 g be separately submitted to the electors in the alternative in the words following, 
 9 to-wit: 
 
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 FOR LICENSE. 
 
 “License to traffic in intoxicating liquors shall hereafter be granted in this 
 state, and license laws shall be passed to regulate and festrict the said traffic and 
 shall be operative throughout the state, provided that where the traffic is or may be pro¬ 
 hibited under laws applying to counties, municipalities, township or residence 
 districts, the traffic shall not be licensed in an y such of said local subdivisions- while so_long_ 
 
 TT3 the prohibition of the said traffic shall by law be operative therein. Nothing 
 herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal, -or modifyor suspend such prohibitory 
 laws’or to prevent their future enactment, modification or repeal, or to repeal or 
 to prevent the repeal of any laws whatever nowor hereafter existing to regulate the traffic 
 in intoxicating liquors. Nor shall any law be valid which has the effect of tie- 
 feating or negativing directly or indirectly the tegulaiioi'i of the Uaffic by a licens e 
 
 system herein provided tor; ' 
 
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 AGAINST LICENSE. 
 
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 “No license to traffic in intoxicating liquors shall hereafter be granted in this 
 state ; but the general assembly may by law provide against the evils resulting 
 therefrom.” 
 
 Section 2. At said election, a separate ballot shall be in the following 
 form: 
 
 INTOXICATING LIQUORS. 
 
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 | For License. 
 
 I I I 
 
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 | Against License. j 
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 Section 3 . Separate ballot boxes shall be provided for the‘reception of said 
 
 ballots. 
 
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 Section 4. The voter shall indicate his choice by placing a cross-mark 
 within the blank space opposite the words “For License” if he desires to vote in 
 favor of the article first above mentioned, and opposite the words “Against 
 License” within the blank space if he desires to vote in favor of the article 
 second above mentioned. If a cross-mark is placed opposite both phrases or 
 neither phrase, then the vote upon that subject shall not be counted. 
 
 Section 5 . If the votes for license shall exceed the votes against license, 
 then the article first above mentioned shall become sec,;lon 9 a part of article XV 0 f the 
 constitution, regardless of whether any revision, alterations, or other amendments 
 submitted to the people shall be adopted or rejected. And if the votes against 
 license shall exceed those for license, then the second article above mentioned 
 shall be sect * on 9 a part of article XV of the constitution. 
 
Fourth Constitutional | 
 Convention. \ 
 
 Proposal No. 5 
 
 MR. CUNNINGHAM. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit substitute for Article No. 5 of the Constitution. 
 
 —Relative to elective franchise. 
 
 Resolved by the constitutional convention of the state of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal shall be submitted to the electors to amend the constitution by sub- 
 
 3 stituting for Article 5 of the constitution the following: 
 
 4 Section i. Every male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty- 
 
 5 one years, who shall have been a resident of tbe state one year next preceding 
 the election, and of the county, township, precinct or ward in which he resides, 
 
 7 such time as may be provided by law, shall have the qualification of an elector 
 
 $ and be entitled to vote at all elections. But no idiot or insane person shall be 
 
 <) entitled to the privilege of an elector. 
 
 10 Section 2. All elections shall be by ballot, and canvassed in such manner 
 
 11 as may be provided by law. 
 
 12 Section 3. Electors during their attendance at elections, and in going to 
 
 13 and returning therefrom shall be privileged from arrest in all cases, except 
 
 14 treason, felony, intoxication and breach of the peace. 
 
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 Section 4 . The general assembly shall have power to exclude from the 
 privilege of voting or of being eligible to office, any person convicted of bribery, 
 perjury or other infamous crime. 
 
 Section 5. No person in the military, naval of marine service of the 
 United States shall by being stationed in any garrison or military or naval sta¬ 
 tion within the state, be considered a resident of this state, and in time of war, 
 no elector in the actual military service of the state or of the United States, in 
 the army or navy by reason of his absence from his election district; and the 
 legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and 
 place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of 
 their votes in the election districts in which they respectively have a residence. 
 
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Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Proposal No. 7 
 
 MR. NYE. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to article 3, section 8, of the 
 constitution. — Relative to calling extra sessions of 
 
 the general assembly. 
 
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 Resolved by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio. That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE III. 
 
 5 , EXECUTIVE. 
 
 £ To amend section 8 of article 3. 
 
 7 Section 8. The governor on extraordinary occasions may convene the 
 
 g general assembly by proclamation and shall state in said proclamation the pur- 
 9 pose for which said special session is called and no other business shall be trans¬ 
 it) acted at said special session except that named in said proclamation, or in a sub- 
 
 11 sequent public proclamation issued by the Governor during said special session. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED. AS REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND BILL OF RIGHTS. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 15 
 
 MR. RILEY. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article I, Section io, of the con¬ 
 stitution.—Relative to bill of rights. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
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 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE I. 
 
 5 Section io. Except in cases of impeachment, and cases arising in the 
 
 6 army and navy, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public 
 
 7 danger, and in all offenses for which a punishment less than imprisonment in 
 
 8 the penitentiary is provided, no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or 
 
 9 otherwise infamous crime, unless on presentment or indictment of a grand 
 
 10 jury and the number of persons to constitute such grand jury and the concur- 
 
 11 rence of what number thereof shall be necessary to find such indictment shall 
 
 12 be determined by the general assembly. 
 
 13 In any trial, in any court, the party accused shall be allowed to appear 
 
 14 and defend in person and with counsel; to demand the nature and cause of the 
 
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 15 accusation against him, and to have a copy thereof; to meet the witnesses face 
 
 16 to face, and to have compulsory process to procure the attendance of witnesses 
 
 17 in his behalf, and a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county * * * 
 
 18 in which the offense is alleged to have b een committed ; but the general assembly 
 
 19 may provide by law for the taking of the deposition by the accused or by the 
 
 20 state, to be used for or against the accused, of any witness whose attendance can 
 
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 21 not be had at the trial, always securing to the accused the opportunity to be 
 
 22 present in person and with counsel at the taking of such deposition, and to 
 
 23 examine the witness face to face as fully and in the same manner as if in court. 
 
 24 No person shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against 
 
 25 himself; but his failure to testify may be considered by the court and jury and 
 
 26 the same may be made the subject of comment by counsel. 
 
 27 No person shall be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Proposal No. 
 
 MR. CORDES. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article II, Section 33, of the 
 constitution.—Relative to requiring the general assembly 
 to pass laws relative to compensation of employees. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Article II. 
 
 5 Section 33. For the purpose of providing compensation from a state 
 
 G fund, to workmen and their dependents, for death, injuries or occupational 
 
 7 diseases, occasioned in the course of such workmen’s employment, laws may 
 
 S be passed establishing a fund to be created and administered by the state and 
 
 <) by compulsory contribution thereto by employers; determining the terms and 
 
 ]() conditions upon which payment shall be made therefrom and taking away any 
 
 [ 1 or ail rights of action or defenses from employees and employers but no right 
 
 12 of action shall be taken away from any employees when the injury, disease 
 
 13 or death arises from failure of the employer to comply with any lawful require- 
 
 jq ment for the protection of the lives, health and safety of employees. Laws 
 
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 15 may be passed establishing a board which may be empowered to classify all 
 
 16 occupations, according to their degree of hazard; fix rates of contribution to 
 
 17 such fund according to the general rule of classification and to collect, administer 
 
 18 and distribute such fund and to determine all rights of claimants thereto. 
 
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ORDERED PRINTED. AS REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR. 
 
 boURTU CO N ST IT UTION AI 
 
 Convention. 
 
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 Sub. Proposal JNo. 34 
 
 MR. THOMAS. 
 
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 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to 
 tions io, ii, 12, 13, 14 
 trial regulations. 
 
 Article XV, by adding Sec- 
 and 15. —Relative to indus- 
 
 Resolved, by the constitutional convention of the state of Ohio, That a pro¬ 
 posal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 follows: 
 
 The contracting or sale of prison labor or the product of prison labor, by 
 the state or by any political subdivision of the state is hereby prohibited, and no 
 prison-made goods shall be sold in the state unless the same are conspicuously 
 marked, “Prison-made.” All persons confined in any penal institution in the 
 state, so far as may be consistent with discipline and the public interest, shall be 
 employed in some beneficial industry for the use of the state or its political sub¬ 
 divisions, and where a prisoner has a dependent family his net earnings may be 
 paid to said dependents for their support. 
 
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Ordecpd printed, as it would appear if the minority report of the Committee on 
 Corporations other than municipal is agreed to. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
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 Proposal No. 51 
 
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 MR. MILLER, of Crawford. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to. Article VIII, Section 6, of the 
 constitution. — Relative to permitting public property 
 being insured in mutual associations and companies. 
 
 Resolved, by the constitution! convention of the state of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 5 Section 6. The general assembly shall never authorize any county, city, 
 
 6 town or township, by vote of its citizens, or otherwise, to become a stockholder 
 
 7 in any joint stock company, corporation, or association whatever; or to raise 
 
 8 money for, or to loan its credit to, or in aid of any such company, corporation, 
 
 9 or association. 
 
 10 The General Assembly may provide by law for the regulation of all rates 
 
 11 charged or to be charged by any insurance company, corporation or association 
 
 12 organized under the laws of this state or doing any insurance business in this 
 
 13 state. 
 
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 14 Provided, however, that the General Assembly may establish and maintain 
 
 15 a bureau of insurance for the purpose of furnishing fire, life, accident or other 
 
 16 insurance to the citizens of the state, and provided further, that nothing in 
 
 17 this section shall prevent public buildings or property being insured in mutual 
 
 18 fire insurance associations or companies. 
 
 
Ordered prhted. as it would appear if the majority report of the Committee on 
 Corporations other then municipal is agreed to. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 
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 Convention. 
 
 Proposal No. 51 
 
 MR. MILLER, of Crawford. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article VIII, Section 6, of the 
 constitution. — Relative to permitting public property 
 being insured in mutual associations and companies. 
 
 Resolved, by the constitutionl cenvcntion of the state of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 5 Section 6. The general assembly shall never authorize any county, city, 
 (> town or township, by vote of its citizens, or otherwise, to become a stockholder 
 
 7 in any joint stock company, corporation, or association whatever; or to raise 
 
 8 money for, or to loan its credit to, or in aid of any such company, corporation, 
 
 9 or association; 
 
 10 Providing however; that nothing in this section shall prevent public build- 
 
 11 ings or property being insured in mutual fire insurance associations or com- 
 
 12 panies. 
 
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 13 The General Assembly may provide by law for the regulation of all rates 
 
 14 charged or to be charged by any insurance company, corporation or association 
 
 15 organized under the lazes of this state or doing any insurance business in this 
 
 1 state. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 54 
 
 MR. ELSON. 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article I, Section 5, of the consti¬ 
 tution.—Relative to the reform of the jury system. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE I. 
 
 5 Section 5. The right of trial by jury shall be inviolate; but the General 
 
 6 Assembly may authorize that in civil cases a verdict may be rendered by the con- 
 
 7 currence of not less than three-fourths of a jury. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 62 
 
 MR. PIERCE. 
 
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 PROPOSAL 
 
 Relative to abolition of capital punishment. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. At the time when the vote of the electors shall be taken for 
 
 5 the adoption or rejection of any revision, alteration or amendments made to 
 
 6 the constitution by this convention, the following section, independently of the 
 
 7 submission of any revision, alteration or other amendments, submitted to them, 
 
 8 shall be separately submitted to the electors in the words following, towit : 
 
 Article I. 
 
 10 Section 9 . All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except in 
 
 11 cases of homicide, where proof is evident or the presumption great. Excessive 
 
 12 bail shall not be required; nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual 
 
 13 punishments inflicted; nor shall life be taken as a punishment for crime. 
 
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 Section 2. At such election a separate ballot shall be provided for the 
 voters in the following form: 
 
 TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. 
 
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 | Abolition of capital punishment, YES. | 
 
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 | Abolition of capital punishment, NO. 
 
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 Section 3. The voter shall indicate his choice by placing a cross mark 
 within the blank space opposite the words, “Abolition of capital punishment, 
 YES.”, if he desire to vote in favor of the section above mentioned; and within 
 the blank space opposite the words, “Abolition of capital punishment, NO.”, 
 if he desire to vote against the section above mentioned. 
 
 Section 4. If the votes in favor of the section above mentioned shall 
 exceed the votes against the same, then said section shall take the place of 
 Section 9 of Article I of the constitution, regardless of whether any revision, 
 alteration or other amendments submitted to the people, shall be adopted or 
 
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ORDERED PRINTED, AS REPORTED BY SELECT COMMITTEE. 
 
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 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 64 
 
 MR. MILLER, of Fairfield. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 Relative to the Conservation of our Natural Resources. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows: 
 
 4 Laws may be passed to encourage the propagation, planting and cultivation 
 
 5 of forestry and exempting from taxation, in whole or in part, wood lots or 
 
 ^ plantations devoted exclusively to forestry or to the growing of forest trees; 
 
 7 and also provide for reforesting and holding as forest reserves such lands or 
 
 S parts of lands as has been or may be forfeited to the state, and may authorize 
 
 9 the acquiring of other lands for that purpose; also to provide for the conserva- 
 
 10 tion of all natural resources of the state, including all streams, lakes, submerged 
 
 11 and swamp lands or other collections of water within the boundaries of the 
 
 12 state, and for the formation of conservation districts; and shall provide for 
 
 13 the regulation of all force, energy and power developed or to be developed from 
 
 14 said water; and shall provide for the regulation of mining, weighing, measuring 
 
 15 and marketing of all minerals. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED. AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON CORPORATIONS OTHER THAN MUNICIPAL. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 72 
 
 MR. STOKES. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XIII, Section 8, of the 
 constitution.—Relative to investment companies. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE XIII, SECTION 2. 
 
 5 Corporations may be formed under general laws; but all such laws may, 
 
 6 from time to time, be altered or repealed. 
 
 7 Corporations may be classified and there may be conferred upon proper 
 g boards, commissions or officers, such supervisory and regulatory powers over 
 
 9 their organization, business and issue and sale of stock and securities, and over 
 
 10 the business and sale of the stock and securities of foreign corporations in this 
 
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 Sub. Proposal ]So. 91 
 
 MR. KILPATRICK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article—, Section—, of the 
 Constitution.-^Relative to equal suffrage. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. At the time when the vote of the electors shall be taken 
 
 5 for the adoption or rejection of any revision, alteration or amendments made 
 
 (> to the constitution by this Convention, the following article, independently of 
 
 7 the submission of any revision, alteration or other amendments submitted to 
 
 8 then, shall be separately submitted to the electors in the words following, 
 
 9 to-wit: 
 
 10 FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE. 
 
 11 Every citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one. years, who- 
 
 12 shall have been a resident of the state one year preceding the election, and 
 
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 Section 2. At such election a separate ballot shall be in the following 
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 ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. 
 
 | | For Equal. Suffrage. | 
 
 | | Against Equal Suffrage, j 
 
 Section 3 . Separate ballot boxes shall be provided for the reception of 
 such .ballots. 
 
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 Section 4. The voter shall indicate his choice by placing a cross-mark 
 within the blank space opposite the words, “For Equal Suffrage”, if he desire 
 to vote in favor of the article above mentioned, and opposite the words, 
 “Against Equal Suffrage”, within the blank space, if he desire to vote against 
 the article above mentioned. 
 
 Section 5 . If the votes for equal suffrage shall exceed the votes against 
 equal suffrage, then the section above mentioned shall take the place of Article 
 V, Section 1 , of the constitution, regardless of whether any revision, alteration 
 or other amendments submitted to the people shall be adopted or rejected. 
 
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 MR. EARXHART. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
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 To submit an amendment to Article XIII, Section 3 , of the 
 Constitution.—Relative to the protection of bank and 
 other deposits. ; 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That ? 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Dues from private corporations shall be secured by such means as may be 
 
 5 prescribed by law, but in no case shall any stockholder be individually liable 
 
 0 otherwise than for the unpaid stock owned by him or her; except that stock- 
 
 7 holders or corporations authorized to receive money on deposit shall be held 
 
 S individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all 
 
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 Sub. Proposal No. 96 
 
 MR. FESS. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment by adding Section 4 to Article VI, 
 of the Constitution-—Relative to the office of Superinten¬ 
 dent of Public Instruction. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows: 
 
 4 ' ARTICLE VI. 
 
 5 Sec. 4. A superintendent of public instruction shall be included as one of 
 
 6 the officers of the executive department to be appointed by the governor, for 
 
 7 the term of four years, with such powers as may be prescribed by law. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Sub. Proposal No. 100 
 
 MR. FACKLER. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article IV, Section 9 , of the con¬ 
 stitution.—Relative to Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as. 
 
 3 follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 5 Section 9 . A competent number of justices of the peace shall be elected 
 
 6 by the electors in each township in the several counties. Their term of office shall 
 
 7 be four years and their powers and duties shall be regulated by law. Provided 
 
 S that there shall be no justices of the peace in any township where a court, other 
 
 9 than a mayor’s court, is or may hereafter be maintained with the jurisdiction of 
 
 10 all causes of which justices of the peace are given jurisdiction, and no justices 
 
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 of the peace shall have or exercise jurisdiction in such township. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED AS PASSED ON SECOND READING. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 MR. LAMPSON. 
 
 Proposal No. 118 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article VIII, Section I, of the 
 constitution.—Relative to raising the bond limit to aid in 
 
 good roads. 
 
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 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
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 4 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 5 Section i. (Public Debt.) The state may contract debts to supply casual 
 
 (5 deficits or failures in revenues, or to meet expenses not otherwise provided for; 
 7 ‘ but the aggregate amount of such debts, direct and contingent, whether con- 
 g tracted by virtue of one or more acts of the General Assembly, or at different 
 
 9 periods of time, shall never exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; and 
 
 10 the money, arising from the creation of such debts shall be applied to the purpose 
 
 11 for which it was obtained or to repay the debts so contracted and to no other 
 
 12 purpose whatever. 
 
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 thorize issues of bonds to an amount which in the aggregate shall not exceed 
 fifty millions of dollars for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining, 
 repairing and rebuilding a system of inter-county wagon roads throughout the 
 
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 state; not to exceed ten millions of dollars in such bonds shall be issued in any 
 one year, and there shall be levied and collected annually by taxation an amount 
 sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds, and provide a sinking fund for their 
 final redemption at maturity. 
 
 Such wagon roads shall be determined under general laws and the cost there¬ 
 of shall be paid by the state. 
 
 The provisions of this section shall not be limited or controlled by section 
 6 of article XII. 
 
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 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 122 
 
 MR. FARRELL. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 Relative to employment of women, children and persons en¬ 
 gaged in hazardous employment. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 £ proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Laws may be passed fixing and regulating the hours of labor, establishing 
 
 5 a minimum wage and providing for the comfort, health, safety and general 
 (> wel: are of all employes; and no other provision of the constitution shall impair 
 7 or limit this power. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED, AS PASSED ON SEDOND READING. 
 
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 Convention. 
 
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 Proposal No. 134 
 
 MR. HALENICAMP. 
 
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 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article I, of the constitution. — 
 
 Relative to injunctions. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio. That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Laws may be passed, prescribing rules and regulations for the conduct of 
 
 5 cases and business in the Supreme Court and other courts of the state, and for 
 
 6 the regulation of proceedings in contempt and limiting the power to punish 
 
 7 persons adjudged guilty of contempt. 
 
 8 No order of injunction shall issue in any industrial controversy involving 
 
 9 the employment of labor, except to preserve physical property from injury or 
 
 10 destruction, and all persons charged in contempt proceedings with the violation 
 
 11 of an injunction issued in such industrial controversies involving the employ- 
 
 12 ment of labor shall, upon demand, be granted a trial by jury as in criminal cases. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Proposal No. 151 
 
 MR. ANDERSON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XXX, Section 18 , of 
 Schedule of the Constitution.—Relative to the Liquor 
 Traffic. 
 
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 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal shall be submitted to the electors to amend the constitution by substi- 
 
 3 tuting for section 18 of the schedule the following: 
 
 4 Section i. At the time when the vote of the electors shall be taken for the 
 
 5 adoption or rejection of any revision, alterations, or amendments made to the 
 
 6 constitution by this Convention, the following article, independently of the sub- 
 
 7 mission of any revision, alterations or other amendments submitted to them, shall 
 
 8 be separately submitted to the electors in the words following, to-wit: 
 
 9 FOR LICENSE. 
 
 10 License to traffic in intoxicating liquors shall hereafter be granted in this 
 
 11 state, and license laws operative throughout the state shall be passed with such 
 
 12 restrictions and regulations as the general assembly may provide, and the gen- 
 
 13 eral assembly shall authorize municipal corporations to provide for the limita- 
 
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 tion of the number of saloons, under general laws applicable thereto; provided 
 that where traffic is or may be prohibited under laws applying to counties, mu¬ 
 nicipalities, townships, residence districts, or other districts prescribed by law, 
 the traffic shall not be licensed in any such local subdivision while any prohibi¬ 
 tory law is operative therein, and nothing herein contained shall be so construed 
 as to repeal, modify or suspend any such prohibitory laws, or any regulatory law 
 now or hereafter enacted, or to prevent the future enactment, modification or re¬ 
 peal of any similar prohibitory or regulatory laws. 
 
 No license shall be granted to any person who at the time of making such 
 application is not a citizen of the United States and of good moral character. 
 No license shall be granted to any applicant who is in any way or manner in¬ 
 terested in the business conducted at any other place where intoxicating bever¬ 
 ages are sold or kept for sale, nor shall such license be granted unless the appli¬ 
 cant or applicants are the only persons in any way or manner pecuniarily inter¬ 
 ested in the business asked to be licensed, and that no other person shall in any 
 manner whatsoever be in any way interested therein during the continuance of 
 
 the license, and if such interest of such person be made to appear, the said license 
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 shall be deemed revoked. 
 
 If any licensee is more than once convicted for a violation of the laws in 
 force to regulate the traffic in intoxicating liquors, the license of said licensee 
 shall be deemed revoked, and no license shall thereafter be granted to such con¬ 
 victed licensee. 
 
 No application for license shall be granted unless the business for which li¬ 
 cense is allowed shall be located in the same county or an adjoining county to 
 that in which the person or persons live and reside whose duty it is to grant such 
 
 license. 
 
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 No legislation shall authorize more than one license to each township or 
 municipality of less than five hundred population, nor more than one for each five 
 hundred population in other townships and municipalities. 
 
 Section 2. At said election a ballot shall be in the following form: 
 
 INTOXICATING LIQUORS. 
 
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 Section 3 . The voter shall indicate his choice by placing a cross-mark 
 within the blank space opposite the words “For License” if he desires to vote in 
 favor of the article above mentioned and opposite the words “Against License,” 
 within the blank space if he desires to vote against said article. If a cross-mark 
 is placed opposite both phrases or neither phrase, then the vote upon the sub¬ 
 ject shall not be counted. 
 
 Section 4 . If the votes for license shall exceed the votes against license, 
 then the article above mentioned shall become section 9 of Article XV of the 
 constitution, and the present section 9 of said artic’e. also known as section 18 
 of the Schedule shall be repealed. 
 

 
 
 
 
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 Convention. [ Pl*()pOSaJ N O 163 
 
 MR. MILLER, of Crawford. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XV, Section 4 , of the con¬ 
 stitution.—Relative to who eligible to office. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a pro- 
 
 2 posal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows: 
 
 4 No person shall be elected or appointed to any office in this state unless 
 
 5 possessed of the qualifications of an elector; providing, however, that nothing in 
 
 6 this section or in the constitution shall prevent the appointment of women to 
 
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 Sub. Proposal No. 166 
 
 MR. STILWELL. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article II, by adding Section 33 
 of the constitution.—Relative to liens. 
 
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 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section 33. Laws may be passed to secure to mechanics, artisans, laborers 
 
 5 and material men, their just dues by direct lien upon the property, upon which 
 
 6 they have bestowed labor or furnished material. No other provision of the 
 
 7 constitution shall impair or limit this power. 
 

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 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 169 
 
 MR. WORTHINGTON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XV, of the constitution. 
 
 —Relative to the civil service. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 S as follows: 
 
 4 , ARTICLE XV. 
 
 g Section io. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, 
 
 f the several counties, and cities, shall be made according to merit and fitness, to 
 J be ascertained as far as practicable by competitive examinations. And it shall 
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 Proposal No. 170 
 
 MR. WORTHINGTON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XII, Sections i, 2 and 
 
 6 , of the Constitution, and to add thereto sections to 
 be known as Sections 7, 8, 9 and 10. — Relative to 
 taxation. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The levying of taxes by the poll is grievous aand oppressive; 
 
 5 therefore no poll tax shall ever be levied in this state, nor service required therein, 
 
 6 which may be commuted in money or other thing of value. 
 
 7 Section 2 . Laws shall be passed, taxing by a uniform rule, all moneys, 
 
 8 credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise; and 
 
 9 also all real and personal property according to its true value in money ex- 
 
 10 cepting all bonds at present outstanding of the State of Ohio or of any city, 
 
 11 village, hamlet, county, or township in this state or which have been issued in 
 
 12 behalf of the public schools in Ohio and the means of instruction in connec- 
 
 13 tion therewith, which bonds so at present outstanding shall be exempt from 
 
 14 taxation; but burying grounds, public school houses, houses used exclusively 
 
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 for public worship, institutions of purely public charity, public property used 
 exclusively for any public purpose, and personal property, to an amount not 
 exceeding in value two hundred dollars for each individual, may by general 
 laws, be exempted from taxation; but all such laws shall be subject to altera¬ 
 tion or repeal; and the value of all property, so exempted, shall, from time to 
 time, be ascertained and published as may be directed by law. 
 
 Section 6. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution the state 
 shall never contract any debt for purposes of internal improvement. 
 
 Section 7. Laws may be enacted providing for the taxation of the right 
 to receive or succeed to estates, and such tax may be uniform or it may be so 
 graduated as to tax at a higher rate the right to receive or to succeed to estates 
 of larger value than to estates of smaller value. 
 
 Such tax may also be levied at a different or higher rate upon collateral 
 inheritances than direct inheritances and a portion of each estate not exceeding 
 twenty thousand dollars may be exempt from such tax. 
 
 Section 8. Laws may be enacted providing for the taxation of incomes, 
 which tax may be either uniform or graduated, and either general or confined 
 to such incomes as may be designated by law, but a part of each income not 
 exceeding three thousand dollars in any one year may be exempt from such tax. 
 
 Section 9. Laws may be passed providing for excise and franchise taxes 
 and for the imposition of taxes upon the production of coal, oil, gas and minerals. 
 
 Section 10. No bonded indebtedness of the state or any political subdivi¬ 
 sions thereof, shall be incurred or renewed, unless in the legislation, under which 
 such indebtedness is incurred or renewed, provision is made for the payment of 
 not less than two per centum of the principal together with the annual interest 
 
 on the same, each year, until such indebtedness is paid. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED. AS PASSED ON SECOND READING. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
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 Proposal No. 170 
 
 MR. WORTHINGTON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XII, Sections i, 2 and 
 
 6, of the Constitution, and to add thereto sections to 
 be known as Sections 7, 8, 9 and 10. — Relative to 
 taxation. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The levying of taxes by the poll is grievous aand oppressive; 
 
 5 therefore no poll tax shall ever be levied in this state, nor service required therein, 
 
 6 which may be commuted in money or other thing of value. 
 
 7 Section 2 . Laws shall be passed, taxing by a uniform rule, all moneys, 
 
 8 credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise; and 
 
 9 also all real and personal property according to its true value in money ex- 
 
 10 cepting all bonds at present outstanding of the State of Ohio or of any city, 
 
 11 village, hamlet, county, or township in this state or which have been issued in 
 
 12 behalf of the public schools in Ohio and the means of instruction in connec- 
 
 13 tion therewith, which bonds so at present outstanding shall be exempt from 
 
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 exclusively for any public purpose, and personal property, to an amount not 
 exceeding in value two hundred dollars for each individual, may by general 
 laws, be exempted from taxation; but all such laws shall be subject to altera¬ 
 tion or repeal; and the value of all property, so exempted, shall, from time to 
 time, be ascertained and published as may be directed by law. 
 
 Section 6. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution the state 
 shall never contract any debt for purposes of internal improvement. 
 
 Section 7. Laws may be enacted providing for the taxation of the right 
 to receive or succeed to estates, and such tax may be uniform or it may be so 
 graduated as to tax at a higher rate the right to receive or to succeed to estates 
 of larger value than to estates of smaller value. 
 
 Such tax may also be levied at a different or higher rate upon collateral 
 inheritances than direct inheritances and a> portion of each estate not exceeding 
 twenty thousand dollars may be exempt from such tax. 
 
 Section 8. Laws may be enacted providing for the taxation of incomes, 
 which tax may be either uniform or graduated, and either general or confined 
 to such incomes, as may be designated by law, but a part of each income not 
 exceeding three thousand dollars in any one year may be exempt from such tax. 
 
 Section 9. Laws may be passed providing for excise and franchise taxes 
 and for the imposition of taxes upon the production of coal, oil, gas and minerals. 
 
 Section 10. No bonded indebtedness of the state or any political subdivi¬ 
 sions thereof, shall be incurred or renewed, unless in the legislation, under which 
 such indebtedness is incurred or renewed, provision is made for the payment of 
 not less than two per centum of the principal together with the annual interest 
 
 on the same, each year, until such indebtedness is paid. 
 
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 Convention. 
 
 Proposal No 174 
 
 MR. MAUCK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 Relative to bill of rights. 
 
 Be it resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That 
 
 2 Section i of Article I of the constitution of the state of Ohio be and the same 
 
 3 is hereby revised, altered and amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE I. 
 
 5 BILL OF RIGHTS. 
 
 (> Section i. All men are by nature free and independent and have certain 
 
 7 inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and 
 
 :8 liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and seeking and obtain- 
 
 9 ing happiness and safety. The General Assembly may, however, make such 
 
 10 regulations as it may deem proper for the conveyance and sale of stocks, bonds, 
 
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 Proposal No. 184 
 
 MR. PECK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article IV, Section i, 2 , and 
 6, of the constitution.—Relating to the supreme and cir¬ 
 cuit courts.—Judicial. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. The judicial power of the state is vested in a supreme court, 
 
 5 courts of appeals, coufts of common pleas, courts of probate, and such other 
 
 6 courts inferior to the courts of appeals as may from time to time be established 
 
 7 by law. 
 
 8 Section 2 . The supreme court shall, until otherwise provided by law, 
 
 9 consist of six judges, and the judges now in office in that court shall continue 
 
 10 therein until the end of the terms for which they were respectively elected, unless 
 
 11 they are removed, die or resign. A majority of the supreme court shall be nec- 
 
 12 essary to constitute a quorum or pronounce a decision, except as hereinafter 
 
 13 provided. It shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, mandamus, habeas 
 
 14 corpus, prohibition, procedendo and appellate jurisdiction in all cases involving 
 
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 questions arising under the constitution of the United States or of this state 
 
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 the courts of appeals and such revisory jurisdiction of the proceedings of ad¬ 
 ministrative officers as may be conferred by law. It shall hold at least one 
 term in each year at the seat of government, and such other 'terms, there or 
 elsewhere, as may be provided by law. The judges of the supreme court shall 
 be elected by the electors of the state at large for such terms, not less than six 
 
 years, and they shall be elected, and their official term shall begin, at such time 
 
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 as may now or hereafter be fixed by law. 
 
 Whenever the judges of the supreme court shall be equally divided in 
 opinion as to the merits of any case before them and are unable for that reason 
 to agree upon a judgment that fact shall be entered upon the record and such 
 entry shall be held to constitute an affirmance of the judgment of the court below. 
 No law shall be held unconstitutional and void by the supreme court without 
 the concurrence of all but one of the judges, except in the affirmance of a judg¬ 
 ment of the court of appeals declaring a law unconstitutional and void. 
 
 in cases of public or great general interest the supreme court may, within 
 such limitation of time as may be prescribed by law, direct the court of appeals 
 to certify its record to the supreme court and may review and affirm, modify 
 or reverse the judgment of the court of appeals. 
 
 Section 6. The state shall be divided into appellate districts of compact 
 territory and divided by county lines, in each of which there shall be a court 
 of appeals consisting of three judges and until altered by statute the circuits 
 in which circuit courts are now held shall constitute the appellate districts afore¬ 
 said. The judges of the circuit courts now residing in their respective districts 
 
 shall continue to be judges of the respective courts of appeals in such districts and 
 
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 41 perform the duties thereof until the expiration of their respective terms of office. 
 
 42 \ acancies caused by the expirations of the terms of office of the judges of the 
 
 43 courts of appeals shall be filled by the electors of the appellate districts respec- 
 
 44 tively in which such vacancies shall arise and the same number shall be elected in 
 
 45 each district. Laws may be enacted to prescribe the time and mode of such elec- 
 
 46 tion and to alter the number of districts or the boundaries thereof, but no such 
 
 47 change shall abridge the term of any judge then in office. The court of appeals 
 
 48 shall hold at least one term annually in each county and such other terms at a 
 
 49 county seat in the district, as the judges may determine upon, and the county 
 
 50 Commissioners of any county in which the court of appeals shall hold sessions 
 
 51 shall make proper and convenient provisions for the holding of such courts by 
 
 52 its judges and officers. Each judge shall be competent to exercise his judicial 
 
 53 powers in any district of the state. 
 
 54 The respective courts of appeals shall continue the work of the circuit 
 
 55 court and all pending cases and proceedings in the circuit courts shall pro- 
 
 56 ceed to judgment and be determined by the courts of appeals, subject to the 
 
 57 provisions hereof, and the existence of the circuit court shall be merged into 
 
 58 and its work continued by the courts of appeals. 
 
 59 The Courts of Appeals shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, 
 
 60 mandamus, habeas corpus, prohibition and procedendo and appellate jurisdiction 
 
 61 to review, affirm, modify, or reverse the judgments of the courts of common pleas 
 
 62 and superior courts and other courts of record within the district as may be pro- 
 
 63 vided by law, and judgments of said courts of appeal shall be final in all cases, 
 
 64 except such as involve questions arising under the constitution of this state, 
 
 65 or the United States, or cases of felony, or cases of which it has original juris- 
 
 66 diction, or cases of public or great general interest in which the supreme court 
 
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 67 may direct the court of appeals to certify its record to that court. No judg- 
 
 68 ment of a court of common pleas, a superior court or other court of record 
 
 69 shall be reversed except by the concurrence of all the judges of the court of appeals 
 
 70 on the weight of the evidence and by a majority of such court of appeals upon 
 
 71 other questions and whenever the judges of a court of appeals find that a judg- 
 
 72 ment upon which they have agreed is in conflict with a judgment pronounced upon 
 
 73 the same question by any court of appeals of the state, the judges shall certify the 
 
 74 record of the case to the supreme court for review and final determination. 
 
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ORDERED PRINTED. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 209 
 
 MR. TETLOW. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article VIII, of the constitu¬ 
 tion.—Relative to protection and welfare of persons 
 employed at public work. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read' 
 
 8 as follows: 
 
 4 Not to exceed eight hours shall constitute a day’s work and not to exceed 
 
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 6 repair, maintenance and operation of all public works, buildings, plants, ma- 
 
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 Proposal No. 212 
 
 MR. JOHNSON, of Williams. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article II, Section 16 , of 
 the constitution. Relative to amending veto power 
 of the governor. 
 
 1 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the \State of Ohio, That a' 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i6 . Every bill shall he fully and distinctly read three different 
 
 5 days, unless in case of urgency three-fourths of the house in which it shall 
 
 6 be pending, shall dispense with the rules. No hill shall contain more than 
 
 7 one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, and no law shall be 
 
 8 revived, or amended unless the new act contains the entire act revived, or the 
 
 9 section or sections amended, and the section or sections so amended shall be 
 
 10 repealed. 
 
 11 (a) Every bill passed by the General Assembly shall before it can be- 
 
 12 come a law, be presented to the governor for his approval. If he approve it, 
 
 13 he shall sign it. If he does not approve it, he shall send it with his objections in 
 
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 then agree to repass the bill, it shall be sent, with the objections of the governor 
 to the other house which may also reconsider the vote on its passage. If three- 
 fifths of the members elected to that house then agree to repass it, it shall become 
 a law notwithstanding the objections of the governor. If a bill shall not be 
 returned by the governor within ten days, Sundays excepted, after being pre¬ 
 sented to him, it shall become a law, unless the General Assembly by adjourn¬ 
 ment prevents its return; in which case, it shall become a law unless, within 
 ten days after such adjournment it shall be filed by him, with his objections, 
 in the office of the secretary of state. The governor may disapprove any 
 item or items in any bill making an appropriation of money and the item or 
 items, so disapproved, shall be stricken therefrom, unless repassed in the man¬ 
 
 ner herein prescribed for the repassage of the bill. 
 
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 Proposal No. 236 
 
 MR. WORTHINGTON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article II, Section 8, of the 
 constitution.—Relative to investigations by general 
 assembly. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend Section 8 of Article II of the constitution shall be submit- 
 
 3 ted to the electors, to read as follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE II. 
 
 5 Section 8. Each house, except as otherwise provided in this constitution, 
 
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 (> shall choose its own officers, may determine its own rules of proceeding, punish 
 
 7 its members for disorderly conduct; and, with the concurrence of two-fhirds, 
 
 3 expel a member, but not the second time for the same cause; and shall have all 
 
 9 other powers, necessary to provide for its safety, and the undisturbed transac- 
 
 10 tion °f its business, and to obtain, through committees or otherwise, information 
 
 11 affecting legislative action under consideration or in contemplation, and to that 
 
 12 end to enforce the attendance and testimony of iwitnesses, and the production 
 
 13 of books and papers. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED, At PASSED ON SECOND READINO. 
 
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 Sub. Proposal No. 240 
 
 MR. ANDERSON. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article I, of the constitution.—• 
 
 In relation to damages for wrongful death. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
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 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Sub. Proposal No. 241 
 
 MR. DWYER. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article II, of the constitution.— 
 
 Relating to impeachment of officials. 
 
 Resolved by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That , a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section 24 a. Laws shall be passed providing for the prompt removal 
 
 5 from office, upon complaint and hearing, of all officers, including state officers, 
 Q judges and members of the General Assembly, for any misconduct involving 
 7 moral turpitude or for other cause provided by law; and this method of removal 
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 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 242 
 
 MR. ROEHM. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article V, Section 2 , of the con¬ 
 stitution.—Relative to elective franchise. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 All elections shall be either by ballot or mechanical device or both preserv- 
 
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 MR TANNEHILL. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article V, Section i, of the 
 constitution.—Relative to primary elections. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 ' follows: 
 
 4 All candidates for elective state, district, municipal and county offices shall 
 
 5 be nominated at primary elections to be provided for by proper legislation, but 
 
 6 primaries shall not be held for the nomination of township officers, or for the 
 
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 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No 252 
 
 MR. WEYBRECHT. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 . To submit an amendment to Article I, Section 16 , of the con¬ 
 
 stitution. — Providing for redress of claims against the 
 state. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Suits may be brought against the state, in such courts, and in such manner, 
 
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 as may be directed by law. 
 
ORDERED PRINTED, AS PASSED ON SECOND READING. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 261 
 
 MR. HALENKAMP. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XV, Section n of the 
 constitution. —- Relative to state printing. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 The purchase of stationery and supplies and the printing of the laws, jour- 
 
 5 nals, bills, legislative documents and papers for each branch of the General As- 
 
 6 sembly, with the printing and supplies required for the executive and other de- 
 
 7 partments of state, shall be let, on contract, to the lowest responsible bidder, or 
 
 8 may be done direct by the state, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. 
 
Ordered printed, as passed on second reading. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
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 Proposal No. 272 
 
 MR. FITZSIMONS. 
 
 To submit an amendment to the constitution.—Relative to the 
 government of municipalities. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE XVIII. , 
 
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 B MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. 
 
 0 Section i. Municipal corporations are hereby classified into cities and vil- 
 
 7 lages. All such corporations having a population of 5,000 or over shall be cities; 
 g all others shall be villages. The method of transition from one class to the other 
 
 9 shall be regulated by law. 
 
 10 Section 2. The general assembly shall, by general laws, provide for the 
 
 11 incorporation and government of cities and villages; and it may also enact addi- 
 
 12 tional laws for the government of municipalities adopting the same; but no 
 
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 such additional law shall become operative in any municipality until it shall 
 
14 have been submitted to the electors thereof, and affirmed by a majority of those 
 
 15 voting thereon, under regulations to be established by law. 
 
 16 Section 3. Municipalities shall have authority to exercise all powers of 
 
 17 local self-government and to enact and enforce within their limits such local 
 
 18 police, sanitary and other similar regulations, as are not in conflict with general 
 
 19 laws. 
 
 20 Section 4. Any municipality may acquire, construct, own, lease and operate 
 
 21 within or without its corporate limits, any public utility the product or service 
 
 22 of which is supplied to the municipality or its inhabitants, and may contract with 
 
 23 others for any such product or service. The acquisition of any such public 
 
 24 utility may be by condemnation or otherwise, and a municipality may acquire 
 
 25 thereby the use of or full title to the property and franchise of any company or 
 
 26 person supplying to the municipality or its inhabitants the service or product of 
 2 T any such utility. 
 
 28 Section 5 . Any municipality proceeding to acquire, construct, own, lease 
 
 29 or operate a public utility or to contract with any person or company therefor 
 
 30 shall act by ordinance and no such ordinance shall take effect until after thirty 
 
 81 days from its passage. If within said thirty days a petition signed by ten per 
 
 82 centum of the electors of the municipality shall be filed with the executive au- 
 
 33 thority thereof demanding a referendum on such ordinance it shall not take effect 
 
 34 until submitted to the electors and approved by a majority of those voting thereon. 
 
 35 The submission of any such question shall be governed by all the provisions of 
 
 80 Section 8 of this article as to the submission of the question of choosing a char- 
 87 ter commission. 
 
 38 Section 6 . Any municipality, owning or operating a public utility for the 
 
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 inhabitants, may also sell and deliver to others any transportation service of such 
 utility and the surplus product of any other utility in an amount not exceeding 
 in either case fifty per centum of the total service or product supplied by such 
 utility within the municipality. 
 
 Section 7 . Any city or village may frame and adopt or amend a charter 
 for its government and may, subject to the provisions of section 3 of this 
 article, exercise thereunder all powers of local self-government. 
 
 Section 8 . The legislative authority of any city or village may by a two- 
 thirds vote of its members, and upon petition of ten per centum of the electors 
 shall forthwith, provide by ordinance for the submission to the electors of the 
 question “Shall a commission be chosen to frame a charter.” The ordinance 
 providing for the submission of such question shall require that it be submitted 
 to the electors at the next regular municipal election if one shall occur not less 
 than sixty nor more than one hundred and twenty days after its passage; other¬ 
 wise it shall provide for the submission of the question at a special election to 
 be called and held within the time aforesaid. The ballot containing such ques¬ 
 tion shall bear no party designation and provisions shall be made thereon for the 
 election from the municipality at large of fifteen electors thereof who shall con¬ 
 stitute a commission to frame a charter; provided that a majority of the electors 
 voting on such question shall have voted in the affirmative. Any charter so 
 framed shall be submitted to the electors of the municipality at an election to 
 be held at a time fixed by the charter commission and within one year from 
 the date of its election, provisions for which shall be made by the legislative au¬ 
 thority of the municipality in so far as not prescribed by general law. Not less 
 than thirty days prior to such election the clerk of the municipality shall mail 
 
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 If such proposed charter is approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon 
 it shall become the charter of such municipality at the time fixed therein. 
 
 Section 9 . Amendments to any charter framed and adopted as herein 
 provided may be submitted to the electors of a municipality by a two-thirds vote 
 of the legislative authority thereof, and shall be submitted by such legislative au¬ 
 thority when a petition setting forth any such proposed amendment and signed 
 by ten per centum of the electors of the municipality is filed therewith. The 
 submission of proposed amendments to the electors shall be governed by the 
 requirements of Section 8 as to the submission of the question of choosing a 
 charter commission; and copies of proposed amendments shall be mailed to the 
 electors as hereinbefore provided for copies of a proposed charter. If any 
 amendment so submitted is approved by a majority of the electors voting there¬ 
 on, it shall become a part of the charter of the municipality. A copy of said 
 charter or any amendment thereto, within thirty days after adoption by a refer¬ 
 endum vote, shall be certified to the secretary of state. 
 
 Section 10 . A municipality appropriating or otherwise acquiring property 
 for public use may in furtherance of such public use appropriate or acquire an 
 excess over that actually to be occupied by the improvement and may sell such 
 excess with such restrictions as shall be appropriate to preserve the improvement 
 made. Bonds may be issued to supply the funds in whole or in part to pay for 
 the excess property so appropriated or otherwise acquired but said bonds shall 
 be a lien only against the property so acquired for the improvement and excess, 
 and they shall not be a liability of the municipality nor be included in any 
 limitation of the bonded indebtedness of such municipality prescribed by law. 
 
 Section 10 -a. Any municipality appropriating private property for a pub- 
 
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 93 fited property not in excess of the special benefits conferred upon such property 
 
 94 by the improvements. Said assessments, however, upon all the abutting, ad- 
 
 95 jacent, and other property in the district benefited, shall in no case be levied 
 
 96 for more than fifty per centum of the cost of such appropriation. 
 
 97 Section ii. Any municipality which acquires, constructs or extends any 
 
 98 public utility and desires to raise money for such purposes may issue mortgage 
 
 99 bonds therefor beyond the general limit of bonded indebtedness prescribed by 
 
 100 law; provided, that such mortgage bonds issued beyond the general limit of 
 
 101 bonded indebtedness prescribed by law shall not impose any liability upon such 
 
 102 municipality but shall be secured only upon the property and revenues of such 
 
 103 public utility, including a franchise stating the terms upon which, in case of 
 
 104 foreclosure, the purchaser may operate the same, which franchise shall in no 
 
 105 case extend for a longer period than twenty years from the date of the sale 
 
 106 of such utility and franchise on foreclosure. 
 
 107 Section 12. The general assembly shall have authority to limit the power 
 
 108 of municipalities to levy taxes and incur debts for local purposes and may require 
 
 109 reports from municipalities as to their financial condition and transactions, in 
 
 110 such form as may be provided by law, and may provide for the examination of. 
 HI the vouchers, books and accounts of all municipal authorities, or of public under- 
 
 112 takings conducted by such authorities. 
 
 113 Section 13. All elections and submissions of questions provided for in 
 
 114 this article shall be conducted by the election authorities prescribed by general 
 
 115 law. The percentage of electors signing any petition provided for herein shall 
 
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 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 30-t 
 
 MR. HALFHILL. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to the constitution. — Relative to 
 
 amending Sections i, 3, 12, and 15, of Article IV, so that 
 
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 each county will elect at least one judge of the court of 
 common pleas. 
 
 Resolved , by the Constitutional Convention by the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall he submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. That Section 3. Article IV, he amended to read as follows: 
 
 5 One resident judge of the court of common pleas, and such additional resi- 
 
 C dent judge of judges as may be provided by law, shall be elected in each county 
 
 7 of the state by the electors of such county; and as many courts or sessions of 
 
 g the court -of common pleas as are necessary, may be held at the same time in 
 
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 17 hold court in any county; and until the general assembly shall make adequate 
 
 12 provision therefor, the chief justice of the supreme court of the state shall pass 
 
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 upon the disqualication or disability of any judge of the court of common pleas 
 and assign some other judge for such place, or assign any such judge to another 
 county to hold court therein. 
 
 Section 2 . That Section / of Article IV be amended to read as follows: 
 There shall be established in each county, a probate court, zvhich shall be a court 
 of record, open at all times, and holden by one judge, elected by the voters of 
 the county, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, and shall receive 
 such compensation, payable out of the county treasury, as shall be provided by 
 law. But the general assembly may provide by law to submit to the electors of 
 any county the question of combining the court of common pleas and probate 
 court in such county and provide that such courts shall be combined in any county 
 where a majority of the electors at such election shall so vote. And provision 
 may also be made for similar submission to the electors of the question of the 
 separation of such courts in each county where the same may have been combined 
 and for such separation when a majority of such electors shall so vote. 
 
 Section 3 . That Section 12 , of Article IV, be amended to read as follows: 
 
 The judges of the courts of common pleas shall, while in office reside in 
 the county for which they are elected; and their term of office shall be for six 
 ( 6 ) years. 
 
 Section 4 . That Section 15 , of Article IV, be amended to read as follows: 
 
 The general assembly may increase or diminish the number of judges of the 
 supreme court, may increase beyond one or diminish to one the number of judges 
 of the court of common pleas in any county, or may establish other courts, when¬ 
 ever two-thirds of the members elected to each house shall concur therein; but 
 no such change,'addition or diminution shall vacate the office of any judge; and 
 
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 Fourth Constitutional 
 Convention. 
 
 Am. Proposal No. 309 
 
 MR. TAGGART. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XVI, Sections i, 2 
 aand 3, of the constitution. — Relative to amendments 
 to the constitution. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section i. Either branch of the general assembly may propose amend- 
 
 5 ments to this constitution; and if the same shall he agreed to by three-fifths 
 of the members elected to each house, such proposed amendments shall be 
 entered on the journals, with the yeas and nays, and shall be published in at ieast 
 
 S one newspaper in each county of the state, where a newspaper is published, 
 
 9 once a week for eight consecutive weeks preceding the * * * election 
 
 10 * * * at which time the same shall be submited to the electors at either a 
 
 1 ] special or general election as the general assembly may prescribe, for their 
 
 12 approval or rejection, on a separate ballot without party designation of any kind; 
 
 13 and if the majority of the electors voting on the same shall adopt such amend- 
 
 14 ments the same shall become a part of the constitution. When more than one 
 
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 to enable the electors to vote on each amendment, separately. 
 
 Section 2 . Whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of 
 the general assembly, shall think it necessary to call a convention, to revise, 
 amend, or change this constitution, they shall recommend to the electors to 
 vote on a separate ballot 'without party designation of any kind at the next 
 election for members to the general assembly, or (against) the convention; 
 and if a majority of all the electors, voting for and against the calling of a 
 convention, shall have voted for a convention, the general assembly shall, at their 
 next session, provide, by law, for calling the same. Candidates for members of 
 the constitutional convention shall be nominated by nominating petitions only and 
 shall be voted for upon one independent and separate ballot without any emblem 
 or party designation whatever. The convention shall consist of as many mem¬ 
 bers as the house of representatives, who shall be chosen as provided by law, and 
 shall meet within three months after their election, for the purpose, aforesaid. 
 
 Section 3 . At the general election, to be held in the year one thousand nine 
 hundred and .thirty-two, and in each twentieth year thereafter, the question: 
 “Shall there be a convention to revise, alter, or amend the constitution” shall be 
 submitted to the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors voting 
 for and against the calling of a convention shall decide in favor of a convention, 
 the general assembly, at its next session, shall provide, by law, for the election 
 of delegates and the assembling of such convention as is provided in the pre¬ 
 ceding section; but no amendment of this constitution, agreed upon by any con¬ 
 vention assembled in pursuance of this article, shall take effect until the same 
 shall have been submitted to the electors of the state and adopted by a majority 
 
 of those voting thereon. 
 
Fourth Constitutional 
 
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 Convention. 
 
 Proposal No. 322 
 
 MR. BOWDLE. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article II, of the constitu- 
 tion.—Relative to the use of expert medical witnesses 
 and testimony in criminal trials. 
 
 Resolved . by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 The legislature shall have power to provide by law for the regulation of 
 
 5 the use of expert medical witnesses and testimony in criminal trials and pro- 
 
 6 ceedings. 
 
 7 Resolved, further that said amendment if adopted shall become Section 
 
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 33 of Article II, of the constitution. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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Fourth Constitutional 
 
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 Convention. 
 
 Proposal No. 329 
 
 MR. KNIGHT. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article VI, Section 3 , of the 
 constitution.—Relative to organization of the boards of 
 education in school districts. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Section 3 . The General Assembly shall by law provide for the organiza- 
 
 5 tion, administration and control of the public school and educational system of 
 
 6 the state: provided, that each school district shall have the power by referendum 
 
 7 vote to determine for itself the number of members and the organization of the 
 
 8 district board of education, and the General Assembly shall make provision 
 
 9 for the exercise of this power by the school districts. 
 

 
 
 
 
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ORDERED PRINTED AS PASSED ON SECOND READING. 
 
 Fourth Constitutional 
 
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 Convention. 
 
 Proposal No. 331 
 
 MR. WALKER. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article VIII, Sections 12 
 and 13 , of the constitution.—Relating to the board 
 public works. 
 
 Resolved, by the constitutional convention of the state of Ohio, That a pro- 
 
 2 posal to amend the constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read as 
 
 3 follows: 
 
 4 ARTICLE VIII, SECTIONS 12 AND 13 . 
 
 5 Strike out Sections 12 and 13 of Article VIII, and in lieu thereof insert the 
 
 6 following: 
 
 7 So long as this state shall have public works which requires superintendence, 
 
 8 there shall be a superintendent of public works appointed by the governor for 
 
 9 one year whose duties and powers shall be defined by law. 
 
Fourth Constitutional 
 
 Convention. PrOpOSal No. 333 
 
 MR. PECK. 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 To submit an amendment to Article XV, Section io, of the 
 constitution. — Relative to the use of property for dis¬ 
 play advertising. 
 
 Resolved, by the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, That a 
 
 2 proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors to read 
 
 3 as follows: 
 
 4 Laws may be adopted regulating and limiting the use of property on or 
 
 5 near public ways and grounds for the public display of posters, bill boards, pic- 
 
 6 tures and other forms of advertising. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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