Exhibit 3(i)


                                 THIRD RESTATED

                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                           CAMCO FINANCIAL CORPORATION

                            (A Delaware Corporation)

                             As Adopted May 26, 1987


         The following  provisions  constitute the Third Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of Camco Financial Corporation, which was originally incorporation
on October 19, 1970 under the name First Cambridge Corporation:

               FIRST:   The  name  of  the   corporation   is  Camco   Financial
          Corporation.


               SECOND: The address of the corporation's registered office in the
          State of Delaware is:  Corporation  Trust Center,  1209 Orange Street,
          County of New  Castle,  Wilmington,  Delaware  19801.  The name of its
          registered agent at such address is the Corporation Trust Company.

               THIRD: The purposes of the corporation are:

               (1)  To acquire and own savings and loan associations; and

               (2)  To  engage  in  any   lawful  act  or  activity   for  which
corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

                  FOURTH:  The  total  number  of  shares  of  stock  which  the
corporation shall have authority to issue is two million  (2,000,000),  of which
stock one million  nine  hundred  thousand  (1,900,000)  shares  shall be common
shares of the par value of One Dollar ($1) each,  amounting in the  aggregate to
One Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,900,000), and one hundred thousand
(100,000)  shares shall be preferred  shares of the par value of One Dollar ($1)
each,  amounting in the aggregate to One Hundred  Thousand  Dollars  ($100,000).
There is  hereby  granted  to the  Board of  Directors  of the  corporation  the
authority to fix by resolution or resolutions any and all powers,  designations,
preferences  and  relative,  participating,  optional  or other  rights,  or the
qualifications,  limitations or restrictions thereof, of shares of the preferred
stock,  or of any series of the preferred  stock,  of the  corporation  that are
permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware to be fixed by the Board of
Directors,  and such grant of authority  shall  include the power to specify the
number of shares of any series of the preferred stock of the corporation.

                  FIFTH:   The corporation is to have perpetual existence.




                  SIXTH:  Whenever  a  compromise  or  arrangement  is  proposed
between this  corporation  and its creditors or any class of them and/or between
this  corporation  and its  stockholders  or any  class  of them,  any  court of
equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a
summary way of this corporation or of any creditor or stockholder  thereof or on
the  application  of any receiver or receivers  appointed  for this  corporation
under the  provisions  of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware  Code or on the
application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed
for this  corporation  under the  provisions  of  Section  279 of Title 8 of the
Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors,  and/or of
the stockholders or class of stockholders of this  corporation,  as the case may
be, to be summoned in such  manner as the said court  directs.  If a majority in
number  representing  three-fourths  in  value  of the  creditors  or a class of
creditors,  and/or  of  the  stockholders  or  class  of  stockholders  of  this
corporation,  as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement  and to
any  reorganization  or this  corporation as  consequence of such  compromise or
arrangement,  the said  compromise or  arrangement  and the said  reorganization
shall,  if sanctioned by the court to which the said  application has been made,
be  binding  on all  the  creditors  or  class  of  creditors,  and/or  all  the
stockholders or class of stockholders,  of this corporation, as the case may be,
and also on this corporation.

                  SEVENTH: No election of Directors need be by written ballot.

                  EIGHTH:  Any Director or the entire Board of Directors  may be
removed  only by the  affirmative  vote of not less than 80% of the  outstanding
stock  entitled  to vote at an election of  Directors,  and such  removal may be
effected only for cause; provided, however, that if any class or series of stock
shall entitle the holders thereof to elect one or more  Directors,  any Director
or all  the  Directors  elected  by  such  holders  may be  removed  only by the
affirmative vote of not less than 80% of the outstanding  stock of such class or
series entitled to vote at an election of such  Directors,  and such removal may
be effected only for cause. Any such removal shall be deemed to create a vacancy
in the Board of Directors.

                  NINTH:   When used in the Certificate of Incorporation:


                  (1) An  "Affiliate"  of a  specified  Person is a Person  that
         directly,  or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,  controls,
         or is  controlled  by, or is under  common  control  with,  the  Person
         specified.

                  (2) The term "Associate" used to indicate a relationship  with
         any person shall mean (A) any corporation or  organization  (other than
         this corporation or a Subsidiary) of which such Person in an officer or
         partner  or is,  direct  or  indirectly,  the  beneficial  owner of ten
         percent (10%) or more of any class of Equity Security, (B) any trust or
         other estate in which such Person has a substantial beneficial interest
         or as to which such Person serves as trustee or in a similar  fiduciary
         capacity,  and (C) any  relative  or  spouse  of  such  Person,  or any
         relative or such spouse, who has the same home as such Person, or is an
         officer or director of any  corporation  controlling  or  controlled by
         such Person.

                  (3)  "Beneficial  Ownership"  shall be determined  pursuant to
         Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules and  Regulations  under the  Securities
         Exchange Act of 1934 (or any successor rule or statutory provision) or,
         if said Rule 13d-3 shall be  rescinded  and there shall be no successor
         rule or statutory provision thereto,  pursuant to said Rule 13d-3 as in
         effect on May 26, 1987; provided,  however,  that a Person shall in any
         event,  also be deemed to be the  "Beneficial  Owner" of any  shares of
         Voting Stock:



                           (A) that  such  Person  or  any  of its Affiliates or
                  Associates  beneficially  own, directly or indirectly; or

                           (B) that  such  Person  or any of its  Affiliates  or
                  Associates has (i) the right to acquire (whether such right is
                  exercisable  immediately  or only after the  passage of time),
                  pursuant to any agreement,  arrangement or understanding  (but
                  shall not be deemed to be the  beneficial  owner of any shares
                  of voting stock solely by reason of an agreement,  arrangement
                  or  understanding  with the  corporation  to effect a Business
                  Combination)  or  upon  the  exercise  of  conversion  rights,
                  exchange rights,  warrants, or options, or otherwise,  or (ii)
                  sole or shared voting or investment power with respect thereto
                  pursuant  to  any   agreement,   arrangement,   understanding,
                  relationship  or otherwise  (but shall not be deemed to be the
                  beneficial  owner of any  shares  of  Voting  Stock  solely by
                  reason of a revocable  proxy granted for a particular  meeting
                  of stockholders,  pursuant to a public solicitation of proxies
                  for such meeting, with respect to shares of which neither such
                  Person nor any such Affiliate or Associate is otherwise deemed
                  the beneficial owner); or

                           (C)  that  are   beneficially   owned,   directly  or
                  indirectly,   by  any  other  Person  with  which  such  first
                  mentioned  Person or any of its Affiliates or Associates  acts
                  as a  partnership,  limited  partnership,  syndicate  or other
                  group pursuant to any agreement,  arrangement or understanding
                  for the purpose of acquiring,  holding  voting or disposing of
                  any shares of capital stock of the  corporation;  and provided
                  further,  however,  that (i) no  Director  or  officer  of the
                  corporation,  nor  any  Associate  or  Affiliate  of any  such
                  Director  or  officer,  shall,  solely by reason of any or all
                  such  Directors  and officers  acting in their  capacities  as
                  such, be deemed,  for any purposes hereof, to beneficially own
                  by any other such  Director  or officer (or any  Associate  or
                  Affiliate  thereof),  and (ii) no employee stock  ownership or
                  similar  plan of the  corporation  or any  Subsidiary  nor any
                  trustee with respect  thereto,  nor any Associate or Affiliate
                  of any such trustee,  shall, solely be reason of such capacity
                  of such  trustee,  be  deemed,  for any  purposes  hereof,  to
                  beneficially  own any  shares of Voting  Stock  held under any
                  such plan.

                  For purposes of computing the percentage  Beneficial Ownership
         of  shares of Voting  Stock of a Person in order to  determine  whether
         such  Person is  Substantial  Stockholder,  the  outstanding  shares of
         Voting Stock shall include  shares deemed owned by such Person  through
         application  of this  paragraph  (3) but  shall not  include  any other
         shares  of  Voting  Stock  which  may be  issuable  by the  corporation
         pursuant to any agreement,  or upon the exercise of conversion  rights,
         warrants  or  options,  or  otherwise.  For  all  other  purposes,  the
         outstanding  shares of Voting Stock shall include only shares of Voting
         Stock then outstanding and shall not include any shares of Voting Stock
         which may be issuable by the corporation pursuant to any agreement,  or
         upon the  exercise  of  conversion  rights,  warrants  or  options,  or
         otherwise.

                  (4)  The  term   ("Business   Combination")   shall  mean  any
         transaction  which is  described  in any one or more of the clauses (A)
         through (E) of paragraph (1) of Article  ELEVENTH of the Certificate of
         Incorporation.

                  (5) "Continuing Director" shall mean a Person who was a member
         of the Board of Directors  of the  corporation  as of May 26, 1987,  or
         thereafter  elected by the  stockholders  or  appointed by the Board of
         Directors  of  the  corporation  prior  to the  date  as of  which  the
         Substantial  Stockholder in question became a Substantial  Stockholder,



         or a Person designated (before his initial election or appointment as a
         director) as a Continuing  Director by Three-fourths  (3/4 of the Whole
         Board,  but only if a majority of the Whole Board shall then consist of
         Continuing Directors.

                  (6) "Equity  Security"  shall have the  meaning  given to such
         term under the Rule 3a11-1 of the General Rules and  Regulations  under
         the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as in effect on May 26, 1987.

                  (7)  A "Person" shall mean any  individual, firm, corporation
         or other entity.

                  (8)  "Subsidiary"  shall  mean  any  corporation  of  which  a
         majority  of any  class  of  Equity  Security  is  owned,  directly  or
         indirectly,  by  the  corporation;  provided,  however,  that  for  the
         purposes of the  definition  of  Substantial  Stockholder  set forth in
         paragraph (10) of this ARTICLE NINTH, the term "Subsidiary"  shall mean
         only a corporation of which a majority of each class of Equity Security
         is owned, directly or indirectly, by the corporation.

                  (9)  "Substantial  Part" shall mean assets having a book value
         (determined   in  accordance   with   generally   accepted   accounting
         principles)   in  excess  of  ten  percent  (10%)  of  the  book  value
         (determined   in  accordance   with   generally   accepted   accounting
         principles) of the total consolidated assets of the corporation, at the
         end of its  most  recent  fiscal  year  ending  prior  to the  time the
         determination is made.

                  (10)  "Substantial  Stockholder"  shall mean any Person who or
         which,  as of the record  date for the  determination  of  stockholders
         entitled  to  notice  of and to vote on any  Business  Combination,  or
         immediately prior to the consummation of any such Business Combination:

                           (A) is the Beneficial Owner,  directly or indirectly,
                  of more than  fifteen  percent  (15%) of the  shares of Voting
                  Stock  [determined  solely on the basis of the total number of
                  shares of Voting  Stock so  Beneficially  Owned  (and  without
                  giving effect to the number or percentage of votes entitled to
                  be cast in respect of such  shares) in  relation  to the total
                  number of shares of Voting Stock then issued and outstanding],
                  of

                           (B) is an  Affiliate  of the  corporation  and at any
                  time  within  three years  prior  thereto  was the  Beneficial
                  Owner,  directly or indirectly,  of more than fifteen  percent
                  (15%) of the then  outstanding  Voting  Stock  (determined  as
                  aforesaid), or

                           (C) Is an assignee of or has  otherwise  succeeded to
                  any shares of capital stock of the  corporation  which were at
                  any time within three years prior thereto  Beneficially  Owned
                  by  any  Substantial  Stockholder,   and  such  assignment  or
                  succession  shall have occurred in the course of a transaction
                  or series of  transactions  not  involving  a public  offering
                  within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Substantial Stockholder shall
         not  include  (a)  the   corporation  or  any  Subsidiary  or  (b)  any
         profit-sharing, employee share ownership or other employee benefit plan
         of the  corporation or any  Subsidiary,  or any trustee of or fiduciary
         with respect to any such plan when acting in such capacity.

                  (11) "Voting  Stock" shall mean any shares of capital stock of
         the  corporation   entitled  to  vote  generally  in  the  election  of
         directors.



                  (12) "Whole Board"  shall mean the total  number of Directors
         which the corporation would have it there were no vacancies; i.e., the
        whole authorized number of Directors.


                   TENTH:  Any action  required or  permitted to be taken by the
stockholders  of the  corporation  must  be  taken  pursuant  to a vote  of such
stockholders at an annual or special meeting of such  stockholders  that is duly
held  pursuant to notice.  No action  required or  permitted  to be taken by the
stockholders  of the  corporation  at any  annual  or  special  meeting  of such
stockholders  may be taken pursuant to one or more consents in writing signed by
the holders of all or any other  portion of the  outstanding  stock  entitled to
vote on such  action.  Except as  otherwise  required  by law and subject to any
rights afforded by any provision of the Certificate of  Incorporation to holders
of any class or series of capital stock of the  corporation  having a preference
over the common stock as to dividends or upon  liquidation,  special meetings of
stockholders of the corporation  having a preference over the common stock as to
dividends  or  upon  liquidation,   special  meetings  of  stockholders  of  the
corporation  may be called only by the  President  or by the Board of  Directors
pursuant to a  resolution  duly adopted by a majority of the Whole Board or by a
writing signed by a majority of the Whole Board.

                  ELEVENTH:

                  (1) In addition to any vote required by law or under any other
provision of the Certificate of  Incorporation  or any resolution or resolutions
adopted by the Board of Directors pursuant to its authority under Article FOURTH
of the Certificate of Incorporation,  and except as otherwise expressly provided
in this Article ELEVENTH:

                           (A) any merger or consolidation of the corporation or
         any Subsidiary with or into (i) any Substantial Stockholder or (ii) any
         other  corporation  (whether or not itself a  Substantial  Stockholder)
         which,  after such merger or consolidation,  would be an Affiliate of a
         Substantial Stockholder, or

                           (B) any  sale,  lease,  exchange,  mortgage,  pledge,
         transfer  or other  disposition  (in one  transaction  or a  series  of
         related  transactions)  to or with any  Substantial  Stockholder of any
         Substantial Part of the assets of the corporation or of any Subsidiary,
         or

                           (C) the issuance or transfer by the corporation or by
         any Subsidiary (in one transaction or a series of related transactions)
         of any Equity  Securities of the  corporation  or any Subsidiary to any
         Substantial  Stockholder  in  exchange  for cash,  securities  or other
         property (or a  combination  thereof)  having an aggregate  fair market
         value  equal to or in excess of sixty  percent  (60%) of the  amount of
         stockholders'  equity  reflected on the  corporation's  audited balance
         sheet as of the end of its most  recent  fiscal  year  (which  shall be
         prepared  on a  consolidated  basis  by the  corporation's  independent
         certified  public  accountants in accordance  with  generally  accepted
         accounting principles), or

                           (D) the  adoption  of any  plan or  proposal  for the
         liquidation or dissolution of the corporation if, as of the record date
         for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice thereof and to
         vote thereon, any person shall be a Substantial Stockholder, or

                           (E) any reclassification of securities (including any
         reverse stock split) or  recapitalization  of the  corporation,  or any
         reorganization,  merger or consolidation of the corporation with any of
         its  Subsidiaries  or any similar  transaction  (whether or not with or
         into or otherwise  involving a  Substantial  Stockholder)  that has the



         effect,  directly or indirectly,  of increasing the proportionate share
         of the outstanding  securities of any class of equity securities of the
         corporation  or  any   Subsidiary   which  is  directly  or  indirectly
         Beneficially Owned by any Substantial Stockholder.

shall  (except  as  otherwise   expressly   provided  in  the   Certificate   of
Incorporation)  require  the  affirmative  vote  of  not  less  than  80% of all
outstanding  shares of Voting Stock;  provided that such  affirmative  vote must
include the affirmative  vote of a majority of all outstanding  shares of Voting
Stock not beneficially  owned by the Substantial  Stockholder in question.  Each
such  affirmative vote shall be required  notwithstanding  the fact that no vote
may be required,  or that some lesser percentage may be specified,  by law or in
any agreement with any national securities exchange or otherwise.

                  (2) The  provisions  of this  Article  ELEVENTH  shall  not be
applicable  to any Business  Combination,  the terms of which shall be approved,
either in advance of or subsequent to a Substantial  Stockholder having become a
Substantial Stockholder,  by three-fourths (3/4) of the Whole Board, but only if
a majority  of the members of the Board of  Directors  in office and acting upon
such matter shall be Continuing Directors.

                  (3) A  majority  of the  Continuing  Directors  then in office
shall have the power to determine for the purpose of this Article  ELEVENTH,  on
the basis of information known to them:

                           (A)     The   number  of  shares  of   Voting   Stock
          beneficially owned by any Person;

                           (B)     Whether a Person is an Affiliate or Associate
          of another;

                           (C)     Whether  the assets subject to any   Business
          Combination  constitut   a   Substantial  Part  of  the  assets of the
          corporation in question; and/or

                           (D)    Any  other factual  matter   relating  to  the
         applicability or effect of this Article ELEVENTH.

                  (4) A  majority  of the  Continuing  Directors  then in office
shall have the right to demand that any Person who is reasonably  believed to be
a  Substantial   Stockholder  (or  holder  of  record  shares  of  Voting  Stock
beneficially  owned by any  Substantial  Stockholder)  supply to the corporation
complete information as to:

                           (A)   The record owner(s) of all shares  beneficially
          owned by such  Person  who is reasonably  believed to be a Substantial
          Stockholder;

                           (B) The  number  of,  and each  class or  series  of,
         shares  Beneficially Owned by such Person who is reasonably believed to
         be a  Substantial  Stockholder  and held of record by each such  record
         owner and the  number(s) of the stock  certificate(s)  evidencing  such
         shares; and

                           (C)  Any  other  factual   matter   relating  to  the
         applicability  or effect of this Article  ELEVENTH as may be reasonably
         requested  of  such  Person,   and  such  Person  shall   furnish  such
         information within 10 days after receipt of such demand.

                  (5) Any  determination  made by the Board of Directors,  or by
the Continuing Directors,  as the case may be, pursuant to this Article ELEVENTH
in good faith and on the basis of such  information  and  assistance as was then
reasonably  available for such purpose shall be conclusive  and binding upon the
corporation and its stockholders, including any Substantial Stockholder.



                  (6)  Nothing  contained  in this  Article  ELEVENTH  shall  be
construed to relieve any Substantial  Stockholder from any fiduciary  obligation
imposed by law.





                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                       OF
                                 THIRD RESTATED
                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                  Camco  Financial  Corporation,  a  corporation  organized  and
existing  under  and by virtue of the  General  Corporation  Law of the State of
Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

                  FIRST:  That at a meeting of the Board of  Directors  of Camco
Financial  Corporation,  a resolution was duly adopted  setting forth a proposed
amendment  to  the  Third  Restated   Certificate  of   Incorporation   of  said
corporation,  declaring  said  amendment to be advisable and directing  that the
amendment be  considered  at the 1998 annual  meeting of the  stockholders.  The
resolution setting forth the proposed amendment is as follows:

                  RESOLVED,  that  Article  Fourth  of the  Corporation's  Third
Restated Certificate of Incorporation be amended to read as follows:

                  FOURTH:  The  total  number  of  shares  of  stock  which  the
                  corporation  shall have the authority to issue is Nine Million
                  (9,000,000),   of  which  stock  Eight  Million  Nine  Hundred
                  Thousand  (8,900,000) shares shall be common shares of the par
                  value of One Dollar ($1) each,  amounting in the  aggregate to
                  Eight Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($8,900,000),  and
                  one  hundred  thousand  (100,000)  shares  shall be  preferred
                  shares of the par value of One Dollar ($1) each,  amounting in
                  the  aggregate  to One Hundred  Thousand  Dollars  ($100,000).
                  There is  hereby  granted  to the  Board of  Directors  of the
                  corporation  the authority to fix by resolution or resolutions
                  any and all powers,  designations,  preferences  and relative,
                  participating,    optional   or   other    rights,    or   the
                  qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of shares
                  of the  preferred  stock,  or of any  series of the  preferred
                  stock,  of the  corporation  that are permitted by the General
                  Corporation  Law of  Delaware  to be  fixed  by the  Board  of
                  Directors, and such grant of authority shall include the power
                  to specify the number of shares to any series of the preferred
                  stock of the corporation.

                  SECOND:  That  thereafter,  at  the  1998  annual  meeting  of
stockholders of said corporation, which was duly called and held, upon notice in
accordance  with  Section  222 of the  General  Corporation  Law of the State of
Delaware,  the  necessary  number of shares as required by statute were voted in
favor of the amendment.

                  THIRD:  That said  amendment  was duly  adopted in  accordance
with the  provisions of Section  242 of the General Corporation law of the State
of Delaware.



                  IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  Camco  Financial  Corporation has caused
this certificate to be signed by Larry A. Caldwell, its President,  and attested
by Anthony J. Popp, its Secretary, this 29th day of May, 1998.


                                              By:/s/ Larry A. Caldwell
                                                 ----------------------------
                                                 Larry A. Caldwell, President

ATTEST:


By:      /s/ Anthony J. Popp
         --------------------------
         Anthony J. Popp, Secretary




                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                       OF
                                 THIRD RESTATED
                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION


                  Camco  Financial  Corporation,  a  corporation  organized  and
existing  under  and by virtue of the  General  Corporation  Law of the State of
Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

                  FIRST:  That at a meeting of the Board of  Directors  of Camco
Financial  Corporation,  resolutions  were duly adopted setting forth a proposed
amendment  to  the  Third  Restated   Certificate  of   Incorporation   of  said
corporation,  declaring  said  amendment to be advisable and directing  that the
amendment be considered at a special meeting of the stockholders. The resolution
setting forth the proposed amendment is as follows:

                  RESOLVED,  that  Article  Fourth  of the  Corporation's  Third
         Restated Certificate of Incorporation be amended to read as follows:

                  FOURTH:  The  total  number  of  shares  of  stock  which  the
                  corporation  shall have  authority to issue is Two Million Six
                  Hundred Thousand (2,600,000),  of which stock Two Million Five
                  Hundred Thousand  (2,500,000) shares shall be common shares of
                  the par  value  of One  Dollar  ($1)  each,  amounting  in the
                  aggregate  to  Two  Million  Five  Hundred   Thousand  Dollars
                  ($2,500,000),  and one hundred thousand (100,000) shares shall
                  be preferred  shares of the par value of One Dollar ($1) each,
                  amounting  in the  aggregate to One Hundred  Thousand  Dollars
                  ($100,000).  There is hereby granted to the Board of Directors
                  of the  corporation  the  authority  to fix by  resolution  or
                  resolutions any and all powers, designations,  preferences and
                  relative,  participating,  optional  or other  rights,  or the
                  qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of shares
                  of the  preferred  stock,  or of any  series of the  preferred
                  stock,  of the  corporation  that are permitted by the General
                  Corporation  Law of  Delaware  to be  fixed  by the  Board  of
                  Directors, and such grant of authority shall include the power
                  to specify the number of shares to any series of the preferred
                  stock of the corporation.

                  SECOND:  That thereafter,  pursuant to resolution of its Board
of Directors, a special meeting of the stockholders of said corporation was duly
called and held,  upon  notice in  accordance  with  Section  222 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,  at which meeting the necessary number
of shares as required by statute were voted in favor of the amendment.

                  THIRD:  That said  amendment  was duly adopted  in  accordance
with the  provisions of Section 242 of the General  Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware.


                  IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  Camco  Financial  Corporation has caused
this certificate to be signed by Larry A. Caldwell, its President,  and attested
by Anthony J. Popp, its Secretary, this 12th day of July, 1999.

                                             By: /s/ Larry A. Caldwell
                                                 ----------------------------
                                                 Larry A. Caldwell, President

ATTEST:



By:/s/ Anthony J. Popp
   --------------------------
   Anthony J. Popp, Secretary




                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                       OF
                                 THIRD RESTATED
                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION


                  Camco  Financial  Corporation,  a  corporation  organized  and
existing  under  and by virtue of the  General  Corporation  Law of the State of
Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

                  FIRST:  That at a meeting of the Board of  Directors  of Camco
Financial  Corporation,  resolutions  were duly adopted setting forth a proposed
amendment  to  the  Third  Restated   Certificate  of   Incorporation   of  said
corporation,  declaring  said  amendment to be advisable and directing  that the
amendment be considered at a special meeting of the stockholders. The resolution
setting forth the proposed amendment is as follows:

                  RESOLVED,  that  Article  Fourth  of the  Corporation's  Third
         Restated Certificate of Incorporation be amended to read as follows:

                  FOURTH:  The  total  number  of  shares  of  stock  which  the
                  corporation  shall  have  authority  to issue is Five  Million
                  (5,000,000), of which stock Four Million Nine Hundred Thousand
                  (4,900,000)  shares shall be common shares of the par value of
                  One  Dollar  ($1) each,  amounting  in the  aggregate  to Four
                  Million Nine Hundred  Thousand Dollars  ($4,900,000),  and one
                  hundred thousand (100,000) shares shall be preferred shares of
                  the par  value  of One  Dollar  ($1)  each,  amounting  in the
                  aggregate to One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000). There is
                  hereby  granted to the Board of Directors  of the  corporation
                  the authority to fix by resolution or resolutions  any and all
                  powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating,
                  optional or other rights, or the  qualifications,  limitations
                  or restrictions  thereof, of shares of the preferred stock, or
                  of any series of the preferred  stock, of the corporation that
                  are permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware to be
                  fixed by the Board of  Directors,  and such grant of authority
                  shall include the power to specify the number of shares to any
                  series of the preferred stock of the corporation.

                  SECOND:  That thereafter,  pursuant to resolution of its Board
of Directors, a special meeting of the stockholders of said corporation was duly
called and held,  upon  notice in  accordance  with  Section  222 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,  at which meeting the necessary number
of shares as required by statute were voted in favor of the amendment.

                  THIRD:  That said  amendment  was duly  adopted in  accordance
with the  provisions of Section 242 of the General  Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware.



                  IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  Camco  Financial  Corporation has caused
this certificate to be signed by Larry A. Caldwell, its President,  and attested
by Anthony J. Popp, its Secretary, this 23rd day of September, 1999.

                                         By:/s/ Larry A. Caldwell
                                                -------------------------
                                            Larry A. Caldwell, President

ATTEST:



By:/s/ Anthony J. Popp
   ---------------------------
   Anthony J. Popp, Secretary





                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                       OF
                                 THIRD RESTATED
                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION


                  Camco  Financial  Corporation,  a  corporation  organized  and
existing  under  and by virtue of the  General  Corporation  Law of the State of
Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

                  FIRST:  That at a meeting of the Board of  Directors  of Camco
Financial  Corporation,  a resolution was duly adopted  setting forth a proposed
amendment  to  the  Third  Restated   Certificate  of   Incorporation   of  said
corporation,  declaring  said  amendment to be advisable and directing  that the
amendment be considered at a special meeting of the stockholders. The resolution
setting forth the proposed amendment is as follows:

                  RESOLVED,  that  Article  Fourth  of the  Corporation's  Third
Restated Certificate of Incorporation be amended to read as follows:

                  FOURTH:  The  total  number  of  shares  of  stock  which  the
                  corporation  shall  have the  authority  to  issue is  Fifteen
                  Million  (15,000,000),  of which stock  Fourteen  Million Nine
                  Hundred Thousand (14,900,000) shares shall be common shares of
                  the par value of One Dollar  ($1.00)  each,  amounting  in the
                  aggregate to Fourteen  Million Nine Hundred  Thousand  Dollars
                  ($14,900,000), and One Hundred Thousand (100,000) shares shall
                  be  preferred  shares of the par value of One  Dollar  ($1.00)
                  each,  amounting  in the  aggregate  to One  Hundred  Thousand
                  Dollars  ($100,000).  There is hereby  granted to the Board of
                  Directors  of  the   corporation   the  authority  to  fix  by
                  resolution or  resolutions  any and all powers,  designations,
                  preferences  and  relative,  participating,  optional or other
                  rights,  or the  qualifications,  limitations or  restrictions
                  thereof, of shares of the preferred stock, or of any series of
                  the preferred  stock, of the corporation that are permitted by
                  the  General  Corporation  Law of  Delaware to be fixed by the
                  Board of Directors,  and such grant of authority shall include
                  the power to specify the number of shares to any series of the
                  preferred stock of the corporation.

                  SECOND:  That thereafter,  pursuant to resolution of its Board
of Directors,  a special meeting of the  stockholders  was duly called and held,
upon notice in accordance with Section 222 of the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware,  at which meeting the necessary  number of shares as required
by statute were voted in favor of the amendment.

                  THIRD:  That  said amendment was  duly  adopted in accordance
with the provisions of Section 242 of the  General Corporation law of the State
of Delaware.



                  IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  Camco  Financial  Corporation has caused
this certificate to be signed by Larry A. Caldwell, its President,  and attested
by Anthony J. Popp, its Secretary, this 16th day of December, 1999.

                                        By:/s/ Larry A. Caldwell
                                           -------------------------
                                           Larry A. Caldwell, President

ATTEST:



By:/s/ Anthony J. Popp
   ---------------------------
   Anthony J. Popp, Secretary