War of the Rebellion: from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies
    

Confederate Congress admits Arkansas to the Confederacy

AN ACT to admit the State of Arkansas into the Confederacy.

The people of the State of Arkansas, in sovereign convention, having passed an ordinance dissolving their political connection with the United States, and another ordinance adopting and ratifying the Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America: Therefore,
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the State of Arkansas be, and is hereby, admitted into this Confederacy upon an equal footing with the other States, under the Constitution for the Provisional Government of the same.
Approved May 29, 1861.
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