In 1912, a home-rule amendment to the con-
stitution was adopted by the people of Ohio, and
in 1918 several of the cities of the state held
charter conventions.
In many states there are constitutional provi-
sions forbidding the legislature to pass any spe-
cial act creating or altering a municipal corpora-
tion, and directing that general laws be passed
for the incorporation of municipalities. These
provisions have been evaded by the passage of

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laws, general in form, but applying only to a
particular city; the legislatiu*e of Ohio, for ex-
ample, in 1868, passed a general law providing
"that the city council of any city of the first
class having a population exceeding 150,000
shaU have the power to issue the bonds of such
city in any sum not exceeding $150,000, to be
used for the purpose of completing the Eggle-
ston Avenue sewer/* The provision, of course,
applied to Cincinnati only.
