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Constitution of the State of Arkansas. 1864-1865 5 (1864.4)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0198 and id is 1 raw text is: CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. We, the people of the State of Arkansas, having the right, to establish for ourselves a Constitution in conformity with the Constitution of the United States of America, recognizing the legitimate conseqaences of the existing rebellion, do hereby declare the entire action of the late convention of the State of Arkansas, which assembled in the city of Little Rock, on the 4th day of March, 1861, was, and is, null and void, and is not now, and never has been binding and obligatory upon the peo- ple. That all the action of the State of Arkansas, under the authority of said convention, of its ordinances, or of its consti- tution, whether legislative, executive, judiciai or military, (ex- cept as herdinafter provided,) was, and is hereby declared null and void; Provided, That this ordinance 'Shall not be so con- strued as to affect the rights of individuals, or change county boundaries, or county seats, or to mak, invalid the acts of jus- tices of the peace, or other officers in their authority to admin- ister oaths, or take and certify the acknowledgment of deeds of conveyance or other instruments of writing, or in the solemn- ization of marriages; And provided further, That no debt or liability of the State-of Arkansas incurred by the action of said convention, or of the legislature or any department of the Government under the authority of either, shall ever be recog- nized as obligatory. And we, the people of the State of Arkansas, in order to establish therein a State Government, loyal to the Government of the United States-to secure to ourselves and our posterity, the protection and blessings of the Federal Constitution, and the enjoyment of all the rights of liberty and the free pursuit

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