State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
SIMEON E. BAL D WIN
GOVERNOR
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Pursuant to the statutes of this State, I hereby designate
Friday, the fourteenth day of June next as
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and direct that it be made the occasion in every public
school within the State, which may then be in session,
of exercises to commemorate the adoption by Congress on
June 14, 1777, during the first year of the existence of the
United States, of the flag that should forever symbolize
the new nation, constituted by the Declaration of
Independence. Its thirteen stripes represent the thirteen
States which joined in making that Declaration. The fact
that Connecticut was one of these is the proud heritage of
her citizens, among whom the children in her schools have
as rightful a place as any of their elders.
Let their teachers, then, use Flag Day as a time to
impress upon them the full meaning of the stars and stripes:
one star for every State; one stripe for each of the “old
thirteen”, which fought the seven years struggle of the
Revolution for freedom and independence.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol in Hartford,
this seventeenth day of May, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine
hundred and twelve, and of the Independence of the United States the one
hundred and thirty-sixth.
SIMEON E. BALDWIN.
By His Excellency's Command:
MATTHEW H. ROGERS,
Secretary.


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