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The State of South Carolina

At a Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina, reassembled by appointment of the President thereof, at Charleston, on the twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and thence continued, by diverse adjournments, to the third day of April, in the same year.

AN ORDNANCE

We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained,

That the State of South Carolina does hereby assent to and ratify the articles of compact, called the "Constitution of the Confederate States of America," adopted at Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, on the eleventh day of March, in the present year (one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one) by the convention of Delegates from the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas, and does hereby agree with such other of the said States as shall ratify the same, to enter with them into a Federal Association of States upon the terms therein proposed.

Done at Charleston, the third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

D.F. JAMISON
President of the Convention

Attest: B.F. ARTHUR,
Clerk of the Convention

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