THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA: At a Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina, begun and holden at Columbia on the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and thence continued by adjournment to Charleston, and there, by divers adjournments, to the twentieth of December in the same year: AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled The Constitution of the United States of America We, the People of the State of South Carolina in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declaied and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the general assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of is hereby dissolved. Done at Charleston the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty. D. F. JAMISON, Delegate from Barnwell, and President of the Convention, and others. Attest: BENJAMIN F. ARTHUR, Clerk of the Convention. OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, Charleston, S. C., December 22, 1860, I do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance is a true and correct copy taken from the original on file in this office. Witness my hand and the seal of the State. ISAAC H. MEANS, Secretary of State.

Okay which is it? The 20th, 22nd or 24th of December?

____________________
David Upton