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We, the people of the State of Arkansas, now in convention assembled, do hereby ordain, and it is hereby ordained, that the ordinance adopted by this convention on yesterday, dissolving the political connection theretofore existing between the State of Arkansas and the government known as the "United States of America," be signed by the president and attested by the secretary of this convention, and be also signed by the individual members of this convention, and that in signing the same, there shall be a call of the counties of the state in alphabetical order, and the delegates of each county shall sign the same as their respective counties shall be called by the secretary. Adopted and passed in open convention, May 7th, A. D., 1861.

Attest:

, Secretary of the Convention.

Be it ordained by the people of the State of Arkansas in Convention assembled, That ten thousand dollars be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury unappropriated, to be paid to the colonel of the regiment of volunteers now being organized in the State of Arkansas for the Confederate States, and to