 | United States - 1895 - 676 pages
...alternate red and white ; that the Union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. ' ' SEC. 2. Aml be it further enacted. That on the admission of every...Union one star be added to the union of the flag, and such addition shall take place on the fourth day of July succeeding such admission." Approved April... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1895 - 686 pages
...stripes, alternate red and white; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. "Section 2. And be it further enacted, That on the admission of every new state to the Union, one star be added to the union of the flag; and that .such addition shall take effect... | |
 | Wallace Foster - Patriotic poetry - 1898 - 120 pages
...alternate red and white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field.*' ' ' Section 2. And be it further enacted that on the admission of every...that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July next succeeding such admission." 24. To whom does the credit of restoring the Stars and.... | |
 | Sons of the American Revolution. Michigan Society - Michigan - 1898 - 258 pages
...white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field ; while the second section provided that on the admission of every new State into the...that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July, next succeeding such admission. There are now forty-five stars in the union. in six rows.... | |
 | United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Equipment - Flags - 1899 - 150 pages
...alternate red and white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. " SECT. 2. And be lt further enacted, That on the admission of every new...the fourth of July next succeeding such admission." The following circular was thereupon issued : — (ClRCULAR.) NAVY COMM1SS1ONERS' OFF1CE, May 18, 1818.... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1899 - 200 pages
...stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be twenty stars, white, in a blue field. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That, on the admission of every...that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission. Approved, April 4th, 1818." The twentieth state, Mississippi,... | |
 | James Marcus King - United States - 1899 - 740 pages
...alternate red and white ; that the Union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. " Section 2. And be it further enacted, that on the admission of every...into the Union one star be added to the union of the flng, and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July next succeeding such admission."... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1900 - 396 pages
...horizontal stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. . . . That on the admission of every new State into the...the fourth of July next succeeding such admission." Since then our flag has remained essentially the same, the stripes indicating the number of the original... | |
 | Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia - Numismatics - 1902 - 738 pages
...stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. "Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That on the admission of every...July next succeeding such admission." Approved April 4th, 1818. (Preble, p. 345.) "Yesterday," says the National Intelligencer of April I4th, 1818, "about... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1902 - 984 pages
...2. — And he it further enacted that on the admis&lon of every new State into the Union, one «tar be added to the Union of the flag; and that such addition...the Fourth of July next succeeding such admission." It has often been said In orations that the red meant valor, the white purity, and the blue loyalty,... | |
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That on the admission of every new State into the Union, one star be added to the union of the Flag ; and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth of July next succeeding such admission. 
