 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1899 - 200 pages
...Saturday, April 4, 1818. Its title had been changed in the House, and the exact text of the law is as follows: "An act to establish the Flag of the....horizontal 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... | |
 | United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Equipment - 1899 - 150 pages
...approved April 14, 1818, entitled "AN ACT TO ESTABLlSH THE FLAG OF THE UNlTED STATES. " SECT1ON 1. Be lt enacted, etc., That from and after the fourth day...the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. " SECT. 2. And be lt further enacted, That on the admission of every new State into the Union, one... | |
 | James Marcus King - 1899 - 732 pages
...and approved by President Mouroe, April 4, 1818, which is as follows : " Section 1. Be it enacted, that from and after the fourth day of July next, the...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 into the Union one... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - 1900 - 396 pages
...President approved and signed a " bill to establish the flag of the United States." This bill provided " That from and after the fourth day of July next, the...the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. . . . That on the admission of every new State into the Union, one star be added to the union of the... | |
 | Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia - 1902 - 738 pages
...years later, Congress passed the following: "An Act to establish the Flag of the United States. Sec. I. Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the fourth...union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. "Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That on the admission of every new State into the Union, one star be... | |
 | 1902 - 984 pages
...1818, Congress enacted the following hill, which Is the law of to-day: "Section 1. — Be It enacted that from and after the Fourth day of July next, the...and white; that the Union have twenty stars, white lu a blue Held. "Section 2. — And he it further enacted that on the admis&lon of every new State... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society of New York - 1903 - 232 pages
...having been admitted, an act, approved April 4, 1818, determined the final form of the flag as follows : "SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc. That from and after...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 into the Union one... | |
 | 1903 - 1026 pages
...1818, Congress enacted the following bill, which Is the law of to-day: "Section 1. — Be It enacted that from and after the Fourth day of July next, the...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 Into the Union,... | |
 | 1903 - 696 pages
...design for our national flag, which he did, which act was as follows: First, That from and after July 4 next the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal...the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field (that being the number of the States at that time). Second, That on the admission of every new State,... | |
 | 1904 - 816 pages
...enacted as follows: "An Act to Establish the Flag of the United States: "Section I. Be it enacted, &c., that from and after the fourth day of July next, the...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 into the Union, one... | |
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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. 
