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 . s. Iowa was admitted into the Union Dec. 2G, 1846. It was namedfor its principal river, its Indian name mean-ing the sleepy or drowsy ones. By an act of the General Assembly, adoptedFeb. 25, 1847, the Secretary of State was au-thorized to procure a seal two inches in di-ameter for the great seal of the State, uponwhich shall be engraven the
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 . s. Iowa was admitted into the Union Dec. 2G, 1846. It was namedfor its principal river, its Indian name mean-ing the sleepy or drowsy ones. By an act of the General Assembly, adoptedFeb. 25, 1847, the Secretary of State was au-thorized to procure a seal two inches in di-ameter for the great seal of the State, uponwhich shall be engraven the following device,surrounded by the words, The Great Sealof the State of Iowa. A sheaf and field of standing wheat, with a sickle and other farm-ing utensils; on the left side, near the bottom, a lead furnace and apile of pig-lead; on the right side the citizen soldier, with a plow inhis rear, supporting the American flag and liberty cap with his righthand, and his gun witli his left in the centre and near the bottom;the Mississippi River in the rear of the wliole, with the steamer Iowaunder way; an eagle in the upper edge, holding in his beak a scroll,,with the following inscription upon it: Our liberties we jJrize, and ourrights we loill Anns of Iowa. Wisconsin was under the government of France ninety-threeyears, under Great Britain twenty years, was governed by Virginiaone year, by the Territory of Ohio sixteen years,by Indiana Territory nine years, and by Michi-gan Territory eighteen years. She continued aTerritory of the United States nearly twelveyears, when, on the 13th of March, 1*848, shebecame the thirtieth State of the Union, andwas formally admitted May 29,1848. In 1863, a State flag was adopted, which isof dark blue silk, with the arms of Wisconsin(with the words B Pluribus Ununi left out) painted or embroidered
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