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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
There does not appear to have been any translation of the Latin inscriptions in the description of the seal recorded at the time it was presented to the Constitutional Convention adopting it, nor afterwards; at least no record of it can be found, yet members of that convention who have been questioned agree as to the foregoing being the accepted rendering at the time of. its adoption, and some of the very best authorities who have been personally consulted give the same translation. It is therefore deemed to be correct.
The design given in the following official description, as taken from the journal of the Constitutional Convention, will of course be accepted as correct:
Detroit, June 24th, 1835. To the Secretary of the Territory of Michigan:
Civil War
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