Origin and history of the American flag 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 (1917)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885, Asnis, Charles Edward · Philadelphia, N. L. Brown · leaf 258
iful. 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, WlUiam H.… … 640 1 State Seals, Arms, Flags, and Colors. law establishing the identity of that which among nations is regardedas the highest evidence of the authenticity of the acts of the Executive,is not a little remarkable. On the 25th of March, 1S03, the first General Assembly of the Stateof Ohio enacted…
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