OF

AMERICA.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BY RICHARD FOLWELL,

No. 33, CARTER'S ALLEY.

1796.

:: PASSED AT THE

FIRST SESSION

OF THE

THIRD CONGRESS

OF THE

United States of America,

REGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,

In the State of Pennsylvania,

On Monday the Second of December,

IN THE YEAR MDCCXCIII.

AND OF THE

Independence of the United States,

THE EIGHTEENTH.

1

An Act making an Alteration in the Flag of the
United States.

B

in flag of U. States.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress afssembted, That from and af- Alteration ter the first day of May anno Domini one 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.