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APPENEIX. 



Sec. 13. No member of congres?, or person holding any 

 office under the United States, or this state, shall execute the 

 office of governor. 



Sec. 14, There shall be a seal of this state, which shall he 

 kept by the governor, and used by him officially, and shall be 

 called « THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF OHIO." 

 Sec. 15. All grants and commissions shall be in the name 

 and by the authority of the State of Ohio, sealed with the seal 

 signed by the governor, and countersigned by the secretary. 

 Sec. 16. A secretary of state shall be appointed by a joint 

 ballot of the senate and house of representatives, who shall 

 continue in office three years, if he shall so long behave him- 

 self well: he shall keep a fair register of all the official acts and 

 proceedings of the governor; and shall, when required, lay the 

 same, and all papers, minutes and vouchers relative thereto, 

 before either branch of the Legislature ; and shall preform such 

 other duties as shall be assigned him by law. 



ARTICLE III. 



Sec. 1. The Judicial power of this State, both as to matters 

 of law and equity, shall be vested in a Supreme Court, in 

 Courts of Common Pleas for each county, in Justices of the 

 Peace, and in such other courts as the legislature may, from 

 time to time, establish. 



Sec. 2. The Supreme Court shall consist of three Judges, any 

 two of whom shall be a quorum. They shall have original and 

 appellate jurisdiction, both in common law and chancery, in 

 such cases as shall he directed by law . Provided, That nothing 

 herein contained, shall prevent the general assembly from 

 adding another Judge to the Supreme Court after the term of 

 five years, in which case the Judges may divide the state into 

 two circuits, within which, any two of the Judges may hold a 

 court. 



Sec 3. The several Courts of Common Pleas, shall consist 

 of a President and Associate Judges. The state shall be divi- 

 ded, by law, into three circuits : there shall be appointed in 



