Senate Concurrent Resolution 519

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF 1890 TO REESTABLISH AND DESCRIBE AS THE OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI THAT FLAG WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED AS THE STATE FLAG BY CHAPTER 37, LAWS OF 1894, AND TO ESTABLISH AND DESCRIBE THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI AS ENACTED BY THE 1818 MISSISSIPPI LAWS, ACT OF JANUARY 19, 1818.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That the following amendment to the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 is proposed to the qualified electors of the state:

Amend the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 by creating a new section to read as follows:

Section ____. The flag of the State of Mississippi, as established by Chapter 37, Laws of 1894, is hereby reestablished as the official flag of the State of Mississippi, being more particularly described as follows: The flag of the State of Mississippi shall have a width two-thirds (2/3) of its length, with the union square two-thirds (2/3) of the width of the flag. The ground of the union shall be red with a broad blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original states of the Union. The field shall be divided into three (3) bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one extending the whole length of the flag, red--the national colors. The staff shall be surmounted with a spearhead and a battle-axe below. The flag shall be fringed with gold, and the staff gilded with gold.

Amend the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 by creating a new section to read as follows:

Section ____. The Great Seal of the State of Mississippi as established by the 1818 Mississippi Laws, Act of January 19, 1818, and described as follows: The inscription shall be "GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI" around the margin and in the center an eagle, with the olive branch and a quiver of arrows in his claws.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this proposed amendment shall be submitted by the Secretary of State to the qualified electors at an election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November 2002, as provided by Section 273 of the Constitution and by general law.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the explanation of this proposed amendment for the ballot shall read as follows: "This proposed constitutional amendment reestablishes and describes as the official flag of the State of Mississippi that flag as established by Chapter 37, Laws of 1894, and establishes and describes the Great Seal of the State of Mississippi as established in 1818."