Part 5

Note by Barton: “As the Pales or Pallets consist of an uneven Number, they ought, in strictness, to be blazoned—Arg^t. 6 Pallets gules: but as the 13 pieces allude to the thirteen States, they are blazoned according to the Number of _pieces paleways_.”

Footnote 26:

Vol. II, p. 656.

Footnote 27:

For discussion of the Prestwich claim, see Totten, I, 63 _et seq._

Footnote 28:

Journals of Congress, vol. 4 (ed. 1823), p. 39.

Footnote 29:

The Department of State of the United States; Its History and Functions (Hunt), 50, 51.

Footnote 30:

See Totten, I, 212.

Footnote 31:

Totten, I, 171 _et seq._

Footnote 32:

Life of Franklin (Bigelow), III, p. 252.

Footnote 33:

18 Stat., 23.

Footnote 34:

18 Stat., 420.

Footnote 35:

25 Stat., 387.

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