History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations (1894)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885 · Boston, Mass. ; New York, N.Y. : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 678
tiful. The constitution provided that there should be a great seal of theState, but for sixty years there was no legislative act ordering one.^This oversight in legislation is singular, and that the fact should haveremained unknown for more than half a century, that there was no 1 Letter, William… … Arras of Ohio. 610 sTAii: si:als, aums, fi.aus, and colors. law establishing tlie identity of that which among nations is regardedas the highest evidence of the authenticity of the acts of the Execu-tive, is not a little remarkable. On the 25th of ]\Iarch, 1803, the first General Assembly of…
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