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State Symbols
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Official state symbols represent the cultural heritage
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Mississippi Symbols
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Mississippi Coat of Arms
State Coat of Arms
Adopted on February 7, 2001.
On February 7, 2001, Governor Ronnie
Musgrove signed into law Senate Bill No. 2285
designating the above design as the official
Mississippi Coat of Arms:
"… a shield, blue in color, with an eagle upon
it with extended pinions, holding in the right
talon a palm branch and bundle of arrows in
the left, with the word "Mississippi" above the
eagle; the lettering on the shield and the eagle to be in gold; below the
shield two (2) branches of the cotton stalk, saltier wise, and a scroll below extending upward and on each side three-fourths (3/4) of the length of the shield; upon the scroll, which is to be red, the motto to be printed in gold letters upon white spaces, the motto to be "Virtute et Armis"; this being the same Coat-of-Arms adopted by the Legislature in Chapter 37, Laws of the Extraordinary Session of 1894."
This design was declared the official state Coat of Arms by the 1894 Legislature, but the original law was not brought forward in the 1906 revision of the Mississippi Code. The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in May 2000 that Mississippi did not have an official Coat-of- Arms. A 17-member commission appointed by
Governor Ronnie Musgrove to study the issue recommended to the Legislature
the re-adoption of the Coat-of-Arms.
MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended
SEC. 3-3-41. Mississippi coat of arms.
(1) The Mississippi Coat-of-Arms shall have the following design: a shield,
blue in color, with an eagle upon it with extended pinions, holding in the
right talon a palm branch and bundle of arrows in the left, with the word
"Mississippi" above the eagle; the lettering on the shield and the eagle to
be in gold; below the shield two (2) branches of the cotton stalk, saltier
wise, and a scroll below extending upward and on each side three-fourths
(3/4) of the length of the shield; upon the scroll, which is to be red, the
motto to be printed in gold letters upon white spaces, the motto to be "Virtute
et Armis"; this being the same Coat-of-Arms adopted by the Legislature in
Chapter 37, Laws of the Extraordinary Session of 1894.
(2) The Governor of the State is authorized and empowered to procure a steel
plate and one (1) metal electrotype plate for printing and engraving the
Coat-of-Arms, which plates shall be preserved in the Office of the Secretary
of State.
SOURCES: Laws, 2001, ch. 303, Sec. 1, SB2285, eff from and after passage
(approved February 7, 2001.)
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State Symbols
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State symbols represent things that are special to a
particular state.
symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun
Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in
other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token
of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together,
compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century
1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or
convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
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