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 APPENDIX.

CONSTITUTION

OF 1836.

We, the people of the territory of Arkansas, by our representatives in convention assembled, at Little Rock, on Monday, the fourth day of January, A. D. 1836, and of the independence of the United States the sixtieth year, having the right of admission into the union as one of the United States of America, consistent with the federal constitution, and by virtue of the treaty of cession, by France to the United States, of the province of Louisiana, in order to secure to ourselves and our posterity the enjoyment of all the rights of life, liberty, and property, and the free pursuit of happiness, do mutually agree with each other to form ourselves into a free and independent state, by the name and style of "The State of Arkansas," and do ordain and establish the following constitution for the government thereof.

We do declare and establish, ratify and confirm the following as the permanent boundaries of said state of Arkansas, that