DEPARTMENTAL, STATISTICAL and GENERAL INFORMATION ✩
Section 11 2012:Section 11 6/21/13 2:32 PM Page 759 Section Eleven ✩ DEPARTMENTAL, STATISTICAL and GENERAL INFORMATION ✩ The American Flag Highways ___________ ___________ Pledge of Allegiance Legal Holidays ___________ ___________ Hospitals State Flag, Seal, Day, ___________ Songs, Colors, Tree, Bird, Flower, Animal, Fish, Libraries Fruit, Butterfly, Soil, ___________ Insect, Gem, Locomotive, Mines and Mining Reptile, Fossil ___________ and Exhibition Coal Mine ___________ Oil and Gas ___________ Statistical Summary ___________ Parks and Forests ___________ Aeronautics ___________ Taxation and Finance Census Data ___________ Geographical Section 11 2012:Section 11 6/21/13 2:32 PM Page 760 THE AMERICAN FLAG The Flag of the United States has 13 horizontal stripes-7 red and 6 white-the red and white stripes alternating, and a union which consists of white stars of five points on a blue field placed in the upper quarter next to the staff and extending to the lower edge of the fourth red stripe from the top. The number of stars is the same as the number of States in the Union. The canton or union now contains 50 stars. On the admission of a State into the Union, a star will be added to the union of the Flag and such addition will take effect on the 4th day of July next succeeding such admission. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. STATE FLAG Before the design of the present State Flag was officially adopted by the Legislature on March 7, 1929, by Senate Joint Resolution No.
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