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April 30, 1863.

Seal of the Confederate States Established

[No. 4]—“Joint resolution to establish a seal for the Confederate States.

“Resolved, by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the seal of the Confederate States shall consist of a device representing an equestrian portrait of Washington, (after the statue which surmounts his monument in the capitol square at Richmond), surrounded with a wreath composed of the principal agricultural products of the Confederacy, (cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, wheat and rice), and having around its margin the words: “The Confederate States of America, twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,” with the following motto: “Deo vindice.”

Approved, April 30, 1863. [C. S. Statutes at Large.]

Resolution No. 4, ‘Joint resolution to establish a seal for the Confederate States’, April 30, 1863, The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America, Passed at the Third Session of the First Congress, 1863. (PDF)

The image above comes from:

The Great Seal of the Confederate States of America, by Thomas J. Pickett, Ex-Confederate States Commissioner to Mexico. The American Historical Record, Benson J. Lossing ed., Vol. 3, Iss. 32, August 1874, page 360.

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