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Missouri Formally admitted — the Twelfth star in the Constellation.

The President yesterday approved and signed the bill for the admission of Missouri as a member of the Confederate States of America, and issued the following proclamation in pursuance thereof:

Proclamation by the President of the Confederate States of America.

Whereas an act of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, approved this, the 28th day of November, 1861, provides that ‘"the State of Missouri be, and is hereby, admitted as a member of the Confederate States of America, upon an equal footing with the other States of the Confederacy, under the Constitution for the Provisional Government of the same."’

Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do issue this my proclamation, making known to all whom it may concern, that the admission of the said State of Missouri into the Confederacy is complete, and that the laws of the Confederacy are extended over said State as fully and completely as over the other States now composing the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, and caused the seal of the Confederate States to be affixed, at Richmond, this this 28th day of November, A. D. 1861. Jefferson Davis.

By the President:

R. M. T. Hunter,

Secretary of State.

The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 29, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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