Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-09-26
BY AUTHORITY.
BY AUTHORITY. Acts and Resolutions of the Congress of the Confederate States, Passed at the Third Session.

(No 225)
 AN ACT to aid the State of Missouri in repelline
 invasion by the United States, and to authorize
 the admission of said State member of the
 Confederate States of America, and for other
 purposes.
 WHEREAS, The people of the State of Missouri have been prevented, by the unconstitutiona inter- ference OI the government of the United States, from expressing their will through their legally constituted authorities, in regard to union with the Confederate States of America, and are now engaged in repelling a lawless invasion of their territory by armed forces; and whereas, it is the right and duty of the Confederate States to aid the people and government of the said State in resist ing such invasion, and in securing the means and the opportunity of expressing their will upon all questions affecting their rights and liberties; now, therefore
 The Congress of the Confederate States of America dO enact, That the President of the Confederate States of America be, and the same is hereby au- thorZed to cooperate through the military power of this government with the authorities and the people of the State of Missouri in defending that State against a lawless invasion by the United States, and in maintaining the liberty and indepen dence of her people; and that he be authorized and empow cred, his discretion, to receive and muster into the service of the Confederate States, in the State of Missouri such troops of that State as may volunteer to serve in the army of the Confederate States subject to the rules alid regulations of said
 
 and said troops may be received into service by companies, battalliOns regiments, with their Of fcers elected by the troops and the officers so elect ed shall be commissioned by the President; and when mustered into service said companies, battal- ions or regiments, be attached to such brgades or divisions the President may determine; and the President shall have power to appoint field of fcers for all battalions and regiments organized out of separate companies mustered into service, and to add to battalions sufficient number of sepa rate companies to complete their organization into regiments, and to appoint the additional field of fcers necessary for the complete organization of the regiments so formed; and all vacancies that may occur amongst the commissioned officers of troops mustered into service under that act, shall be filled in the manner provided in the act entitled An act for the establishment and organization of the army of the Confederate States of America" appr0y ed sixth March, eighteen hundred and sixty ty one.
 SEC 9 That the State of Missouri shall be ad- mitted member the Confederate States of Ame- rica, upon equal footing with the other States under the constitution for the provisional govern ment of the same, upon the condition that the said constitution for the provisional government of the Confederate States shall be adopted and ratified by the properly and legally constituted authorities of said State, and the Governor of said State shall transmit to the President of the Confederate States all authentic copy of the proceedings touching said adoption and ratification by said State of said pro- VlSOnat constitution; upon the recelpt Wnefeo, the President, by proclamation, shall announce the fact; whereupoA, and without any further proceed ings upon the part of Congress, the admission of said State of Missouri into the Confederscy under said constitution for the provisional government of the Confederate States, shall be considered as com plete; and the laws of this Confederacy shall be thereby extended over said State of Missouri as fully and completely as other States now com posing the
 SEC. 3. That the Congress of the Confederate States recognize the government of which Cla- borne F. Jackson is the chief magistrate to be the legally elected, and regularly constituted govern ment of the people and State of Missouri; and that the President of the Confederate States be- and he is hereby empowered, at his discretion at any time prior to the admission of the said State as mem Der of this Confectionery, to perfect and proclaim alliance, offensive and defensive, with the said government, limited to the period of the existing war between this Confederacy and the United States; the said treaty or alliance to be in force from the date thereof, and until the same shall be disafirmed rejected by this Congress. Approved August 10, l6fl.