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PASSED AT THE

FIRST SESSION

OF THE

THIRD CONGRESS

OF THE

United States of America,
BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,

In the State of Pennsylvania,
On Monday the Second of December,

IN THE YEAR M,DCC,XCIII.

AND OF THE

Independence of the United States,

THE EIGHTEENT H.

An Act making an Alteration in the Flag of the

United States.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of

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U. States.

rica, in Congress aseinbted, That from and af. Alteration ter the first day of May anno Domini one in Mag of thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, the flag of the United States, be fifteen stripes alternate red and white. That the Union be fifteen stars, white in a blue field. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,

Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United

States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, January the thirteenth, 1794:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

President of the United States.