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Rh Arkansas into the union of the United States, shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the state.

2. All laws now in force in the territory of Arkansas, which are not repugnant to this constitution, shall remain in force until they expire by their own limitations, or be altered or repealed by the general assembly.

3. All fines, penalties and escheats accruing to the territory of Arkansas, shall accrue to the use of the state.

4. All recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be taken before the change of territorial to a permanent state government, shall remain valid, and shall pass over to, and be prosecuted in the name of the state; and all bonds executed to the governor of the territory, or to any other officer or court, in his or their official capacity, shall pass over to the governor or other state authority, and their successors in office, for the uses therein respectively expressed; and may be sued for and recovered accordingly. All criminal prosecutions and penal actions, which may have arisen, or which may arise, before the change from a territorial to a state government, and which shall then be pending, shall be prosecuted to judgment and execution in the name of the state. All actions at law, which now are or may be pending in any of the courts of record in the territory of Arkansas, may be commenced in or transferred to any court of record of the state which shall have jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof; and all suits in equity may, in like manner, be commenced in or transferred to the court having chancery jurisdiction.

5. All officers, civil and military, now holding commissions under authority of the United States, or of the territory of Arkansas, shall continue to hold and exercise their respective offices until they shall be superseded under the authority of the state.

6. The first session of the general assembly of the state of Arkansas shall be held at the city of Little Rock which shall be and remain the seat of government until otherwise provided for by law.