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Sorry about the wall of text, but that is how the declaration was formatted.

Here’s what I found at the link:

Act 116 of the 1987 Regular Session
Act 116 SB377
“AN ACT TO ADOPT THE DESIGN OF THE STATE FLAG AS DESCRIBED IN
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 11 OF 1913, AS AMENDED BY HOUSE
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 4 OF 1923, AND HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION 11 OF THE SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF 1924.”
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. (a) The official state flag shall be a rectangle of red on
which is placed a large white diamond bordered by a wide band of blue on which
are twenty-five (25) white stars. Across the diamond shall be the word
“ARKANSAS” and four (4) blue stars, one (1) above and three (3) below the word
“ARKANSAS”. The star above the word “ARKANSAS” shall be below the upper
corner of the diamond. The three (3) stars below the word “ARKANSAS” shall be
placed so that one (1) star shall be above the lower corner of the diamond,
and two (2) stars shall be placed symmetrically, parallel above and to the
right and left of the star in the lower corner of the diamond.
(b) The three (3) stars so placed are designed to represent the three
(3) nations, France, Spain and the United States, which have successively
exercised dominion over Arkansas. They also indicate that it was the third
state carved out of the Louisiana Purchase. Of these three (3) stars, the
twin stars parallel with each other typify that Arkansas and Michigan are twin
states, having been admitted to the Union together on June 15, 1836. The
twenty-five (25) white stars on the band of blue show that Arkansas was the
twenty-fifth state admitted to the Union. The blue star above the word
“ARKANSAS” is to commemorate the Confederate States of America. The diamond
signifies that this state is the only diamond bearing state in the Union.

APPROVED: March 4, 1987