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An Act making an alteration in the Flag of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That from and after 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.
An act to revive and continue the bounties granted by an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, [ag] for encouraging the fisheries carried on at Newfoundland and parts adjacent, from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British dominions in Europe; to continue so much of an act, made in the thirty-third year of the ...
An Act for the reforming of some things mistaken in the late act made in this present parliament for the granting of four subsidies, intituled, "An act for the relief of his Majesty's army, and the northern parts of this kingdom," [a] and to make good the acts of the commissions and other officers by them authorized or appointed, and to be ...
An Act concerning the Lands and Goods of the Hospitals of St. John of Jerusalem in England and Ireland, to be hereafter in the King's Hands and Disposition. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 ( 11 & 12 Geo. 6 .
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Flag Act, Flag Acts, Flags Act may refer to: Flag Act (Philippines), an act of the Philippine Commission that outlawed the display of Katipunan flags; Flag Act of 1865, an act of the Confederate Congress that defined the Third Confederate flag; Flag Acts, the three laws that define the design of the flag of the United States
A history of U.S. laws banning flag burning and other forms of flag desecration, from 1897 to the proposed Flag Desecration Amendment. On Language: Desecration. Column in the New York Times (July 31, 2005) by William Safire on the use of the word desecration in the proposed amendment. Cracking the Flag-Burning Amendment; A Brief History of Flag ...
§ 1 (Dictionary Act [2]) – Words denoting number, gender, person, etc. § 2 – "County" as including "parish," etc. § 3 – "Vessel" as including all means of water transportation. § 4 – "Vehicle" as including all means of land transportation. § 5 – "Company" or "association" as including successors and assigns.