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 . he proper seal and bearings of this State, and report tothe next session of the General Assembly; and also whether any leg-islative enactment is required for a proper description of the greatseal. But Mr. Hinman, who was secretary, made no report. The seal now in use was procured in accordance with a resolutionpassed October, 1842, which di
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 . he proper seal and bearings of this State, and report tothe next session of the General Assembly; and also whether any leg-islative enactment is required for a proper description of the greatseal. But Mr. Hinman, who was secretary, made no report. The seal now in use was procured in accordance with a resolutionpassed October, 1842, which directed it should be similar to the onethen in use. The seal was made of the same form and size as thepreceding one, only a trifle broader. The workmanship, also, is better:there are three clusters of grapes on each vine, while the old one hadfour on each of the two upper, and five bunches on the lower. Theseal is engraved on brass. The arms of Connecticut, in heraldic language, would be thus : Argent, three vines supported and fruited projjcr. The most probable interpretation of this device is, that the threevines symbolize the plantations of Hartford, Windsor, and Weathers-field, which composed the original colony of Connecticut. The num-. 614 STATE SEALS. ARMS, ELAf:S. AND (OLOKS. ber of viiiLs in the old seal was proLalily arbitrary, Willi beautilnlsiini»licity, the Connecticut seal l)ears jieiitetual witness to the faith ofour fathers in His sustaining power who transplanted the vines fromEgypt; who cast out the heathen and planted them ; who made roomfor them, so that, when they had taken root, they iilled the land tillthe hills were covered with their shadow, and the boughs thereofwere like the goodly cedars, — till their launches stretched out to thesea, and their boughs to the river.^ New York. — The State Hag is made of white 1 ninting, twelve feetfly by ten feet hoist, bearing in the centre the arms ol the State ofNew York, as ordered Ity an act passed
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