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Texas, our Texas - Lone Star State tribute

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Texas State Flag


Texas State Flag

National Standard of Texas, 1836

10. December 1836, President Sam Houston of the first national flag of the Republic of Texas. This flag, known as the "National Standard of Texas", with five gold stars in the middle of a field azure blue background. This indicator flew over the Republic of Texas, January 25 1839.A bill, the "Lone Star Flag, the flag, the second official flag of the Republic of Texas, was adopted on December 28, 1838 by Senator William H. Wharton. The decline was, of course, of the Commission and the relevant alternatives, including the design of the flag of Senator Wharton. This law was at the Palais des Congrès, Texas on 21 January 1839 and President of Texas Mirabeau B. Lamar 25th January 1839. It was nearly six years in Texas was a member of the United States.
The first models of tickets are at the root of many of Joanna Troutman, Sara Dodson, Charles Bell Inger Stewart, Peter Krag and William Wharton, but it was time that a real designer and the Lone Star Flag is not known . Texas House "may" have to end the secrecy in 1997. House Resolution 1123, Montgomery County, birthplace of the Lone Star Flag explains:

H. R. N o. 1123

R E S O L U T I O N

According to the Lone Star flag and the most exciting segments of red, white and blue car and a diving Stern, has a proud symbol of Texas since 1839, and
While the request of Mr. Mirabeau B. Lamar, Dr. Charles B. Stewart Montgomery County is a source of inspiration for these banners, and elegant simplicity of its construction truly an example of a united will of the citizens of the new Republic of Texas, and Considering that to win approval of a committee of six signatories of the Declaration of Independence of Texas and the Congress of the Lone Star Flag was officially launched in 1839 and since then he has honored by vessels flying the flag of Poland throughout the State of Texas, and Considering that Dr. Stewart's his draft card and other materials have been his son, Edmund, and later her daughter, daughter Elizabeth Stewart fling, which archives in Austin, the grandfather his historical works of today and future generations of Texans, and the In recognition of Dr. Stewart's timeless contribution to the heritage, history, the paper flag of the permanent exhibition is a Montgomery County Heritage Museum, and Conroe

IN, Dr. Charles B. Stewart 's Design, Lone Star Flag on the canvas and the color, the prospect of the mind and the will of the people in Texas, and his work is always a great source of pride that the residents of Montgomery County aujourd Today, nearly 160 years after its creation, and it was time
Decided that the House of Representatives 75th Texas legislature formally memory Montgomery County, birthplace of the Lone Star Flag.
Official artwork of the Lone Star Flag, which was the President of Lamar Peter Krag.
[T] he Texas flag from a vertical blue stripe and the width of one third of the length of the flag with a white star with five points from the center and two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper band of white lower are the red, a length of two-thirds of the duration of travel.

If Texas was in the European Union in 1845, to Lone Star Flag was. And so it was 1879, when the Sixteenth Legislature revised Civil Liberties and the statues of 1879. "The revised rules, provided that" all civil statutes of a general nature, valid for the revision of existing rules and are not in this or that is not explicitly is still in force, are deleted. " Since the rule changes the law on the flag, not "special" to force the law in 1839, flying the flag of 1839 was repealed.
The deletion of 1 September 1879 in the Flag Act of 1933 Texas without an official of the flag State.

The legislation was created in 1933, included the design and position of the Lone Star flag and the color: red blood, blue and white. The colors were the dissemination of "lessons of the flag State: courage, loyalty and purity." But this is not a standard "red" or "blue" and issue tickets of various colors and sizes.
In 1993, the statutes regarding the flag has been revised and the official report on the state ticket more.

National flag consists of a rectangle with a width ratio of length of two to three: (1), a blue vertical stripe one-third of the length of the flag wide, and two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper band white, less red, respectively, for two-thirds of the length of the flag, a long period, and (2) is regular five-star in the center of the blue stripe, so that point is at the top and so large that the diameter of a circle through the five points of the star is equal to three quarters of the width of the blue stripe.

The colors of the flag was also found that "Old Glory Red" and "Old Glory Blue", the same colors are on the U.S. flag. These colors are in default regarding America.