Former Provisions of the Constitution of the State of Ohio, 1851 Former Art. II, § 16

Every bill shall be fully and distinctly read on three different days, unless in case of urgency three-fourths of the house in which it shall be pending, shall dispense with the rule.  No bill shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, and no law shall be revived or amended unless the new act contains the entire act revived, or the section or sections amended, and the section or sections so amended shall be repealed.  Every bill passed by the general assembly shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor for his approval.  If he approves, he shall sign it and thereupon it shall become a law and be filed with the secretary of state.  If he does not approve it, he shall return it with his objections in writing to the house in which it originated, which shall enter the objections at large upon its journal, and may then reconsider the vote on its passage.  If three-fifths of the members elected to that house vote 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 vote to repass it, it shall become a law notwithstanding the objections of the governor, except that in no case shall a bill he repassed by a smaller vote than is required by the constitution on its original passage.  In all such cases the vote of each house shall be determined by yeas and nays and the names of the members voting for and against the bill shall be entered upon the journal.  If a bill shall not be returned by the governor within ten days, Sundays excepted, after being presented to him, it shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the general assembly by adjournment 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 writing 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 void, unless repassed in the manner herein prescribed for the repassage of a bill.