Annotation
[1] DS, DNA FS RG 11, Proclamations. The Act of December 31, 1862, provided that West Virginia be admitted when the people had ratified a change in the seventh section of the eleventh article of the proposed constitution. The change ratified was the substitution of the following in place of the original section seven: ``The children of slaves born within the limits of this State after the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be free; and that all slaves within the said State who shall, at the time aforesaid, be under the age of ten years, shall be free when they arrive at the age of twenty-one years; and all slaves over ten and under twenty-one years shall be free when they arrive at the age of twenty-five years; and no slave shall be permitted to come into the State for permanent residence therein.''