April 30, 1863.
Seal of the Confederate States Established
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[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.]