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[24thCONGRESS, [Doc. No. 133. ] Ho. or Raps.
lee &ession.
ARKANSAS-ADMISSION INTO THE UNION AS A STATE.
CONSTITUTION OF ARKANSAS,
AND
The Memorial of the Convention, praying for the admission of Arkansas
into the Union as a State.
FEBRUARY 20, 1836.
Referred to the Committee on the Territories.
To ehe Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress
assembled:
The people of Arkansas, through their representatives in convention
assembled, respectfully represent to your honorable body, that the Territory
of Arkansas, by an accession of population within her limits, has now that
number of inhabitants that justifies her to look with confidence to her ad-
mission into the Union as one of the free and independent States of the
American Confederacy, at as early a period as the necessary forms of ad-
mission can be 'complied with.
The people of Arkansas, animated with a desire for the enjoyment of
independence and self government, have, by an expression of their will,
approximatilg to unanimity, elected representatives, to meet in convention
at the city of Little Rock, with full and ample powers t make a constitu-
tion and system of State Government fbr Arkansas. The accompanying
.constitution is the result of their deliberations.
Relving with entire confidence on the liberal policy of the United States,
that whAtever will minister to the happiness, security and interest of Arkan-
sas, will meet with a cordial and liberal response from the Congress of the
United States, we respectfully ask your honorable body, that Arkansas may
be adnitted on an equal footing with the original States in the Union at as
early a period as practicable.
CONSTITUTION.
We, ti people of the Territory of Arkansas, by our representatives, in
Convention assembled, at Little Rock, on Monday, the 4th 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 Louis-
iana, in order to secure to ourselves and our posterity the enjoyment ot all
the rights of life, liberty, and property, and the free pursuit of happiness,](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrecdocs/aradunst0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)