APPENDIX. 377 



No. II, 

 CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO. 



We, the people of the Eastern Division of the Territory of the 

 United States, northwest of the River Ohio, having the 

 right of admission into the General Government, as a mem- 

 ber of the Union, consistent with the Constitution of the 

 United States, the ordinance of Congress of one thousand 

 seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the law of Congress, 

 entitled "An Act to enable the people of the Eastern Divis- 

 ion of the Territory of the United States northwest of the 

 river Ohio, to form a Constitution and State Government, 

 and for the admission of such State into tlie Union, on an 

 equal footing with the original States, and for other purposes; 

 in order to establish justice, promote the welfare and secure 

 the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do 

 ordain and establish the following Constitution or form of 

 Government; and do mutually agree with each other to form 

 ourselves into a free and independent State, by the name of 

 the State of Ohio. 



ARTICLE I. 



Seo. 1. The Legislative authority of this State shall be 

 vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Sen- 

 ate and House of Representatives, both to be elected by the 

 people. 



Sec. 2. Within one year after the first meeting of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly, and within every subsequent term of four years, 

 an enumeration of all the white male inhabitants above twen- 

 ty-one years of age, shall be made in such manner a"s shall be 

 directed by law. The number of representatives shall, at 

 the several periods of making such enumeration, be fixed by 

 the legislature and apportioned among the several counties, 

 according to the number of white male inhabitants above twen- 

 ty-one years of age in each, and shall never be less than twen- 

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