AN ACT to admit the Commonwealth of Virginia as a member of the Confederate States of America.
The Commonwealth of Virginia having, in a convention of her people, ratified and adopted 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 Commonwealth of Virginia be, and is hereby, admitted as a member of the said Confederate States, upon an equal footing with the other Confederate States, under the Constitution for the Provisional Government of the same.
Approved May 7, 1861.