"A miniature of the face of the Great Seal to be prepared, of half the diameter, to be affixed as the less Seal of the United States."
We have not thought it worth while to present the drawing above referred to.
"Device for an Armorial Atchievement for the United States of North America, blazoned agreeably to the laws of Heraldry, proposed by Mr. Barton, A.M.
"Arms.—Paleways of [60]thirteen pieces, argent and gules; a chief azure: the escutcheon placed on the breast of an American (the bald-headed) eagle, displayed proper; holding in his beak a scroll, inscribed with the motto, viz.:—
'E Pluribus Unum'—
and in his dexter talon a palm or an olive-branch; in the other a bundle of thirteen arrows; all proper.
"For the Crest.—Over the head of the eagle, which appears above the escutcheon, a glory, or, breaking through a cloud, proper, and surrounding thirteen stars forming a constellation, argent on an azure field.
"In the exergue of the Great Seal—
"Jul. IV. MDCCLXXVI."
"In the margin of the same—