LAW S

OF THE

UNITED STATES

AMERICA.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

.VOL. III.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BY RICHARD FOLWELL,

No. 33, CARTER'S ALLEY.

1796,

United States of America,

BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,

In the State of Pennfylvania,

On Monday the Second of December,

IN THE YEAR M,DCC,XCIII.

AND OF THE

Independence of the United States,

THE EIGHTEENT H.

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CONGRES S.

CHAPTER I.

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

E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of

B of

U. States.

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

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, January the thirteenth, 1794:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.