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Texas Collection
THE TEXAS STATE FLAG
Fifty-nine delegates elected from twenty-one municipalities (counties)
in Texas met at the little town of Washington on the Brazos River, March
1, 1836, and on the following day declared Texas an independent republic,
and on the 17th elected an ad interim government. On April 21, 1836,
at the San Jacinto battlefield, twenty miles from the present city of
Houston, the Texas army decisively defeated the Mexican army and on
the following day captured General Santa Anna, who was not only the
commanding officer but also the president and dictator of Mexico. On
the first Monday in September an election was held throughout Texas
to elect a president, vice-president, and members of congress. Congress
convened at the town of Columbia, now West Columbia, on the first
Monday in October and on December 10, 1836, adopted a national flag:
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That for the future there shall be
a national flag, to be denominated the National Standard of Texas, the
conformation of which shall be an azure ground, with a large golden
star central. (H. P. N. Gammel, The Laws of Texas, I, 1132.)
In the Third Congress, which assembled at Houston, December 28,
1838, Senator William H. Wharton by leave introduced an act amending
the act establishing the national standard. On January 4, 1839, Senator
Oliver Jones, was chairman of a committee to whom was referred the act
fixing the national standard and seal, reported a substitute, which passed
the Senate on suspension of rules January 7, 1839, and was adopted
on the 25th.
The national flag thus adopted consists of "a blue perpendicular stripe
of the width of one-third of the whole length of the flag, and a white star
of five points in the center thereof; and two horizontal stripes of equal
length and breadth, the upper side of white, the lower red, of the length
of two thirds of the length of the whole flag."
The flag of the State of Texas is the same as that of the republic. No
special statute of the legislature fixing it as such was passed until April
19, 1933. On that date the governor approved:
(House Bill No. 575)
A BILL
To be entitled
AN ACT for the purpose of making plain the salute to the Texas
Flag and giving uniformity to the salute; providing a clear description
of the Flag to the end that pupils in the lower grades of the elementary
school will be able to draw or make the Flag; providing for the stand-
ardization of the star in the blue stripe in the dimensions used and
its position in the stripe so that uniformity shall be the result hereafter
in the making of Texas Flags; describing the method of construction
of the star in language that is definite and clear; and outlining rules
for correct use and display of the Texas Flag.
Miss Sunshine Neely of the Office of the Graduate School
of the University has sent over a note of thanks to the Associa-
tion in which she expresses an appreciation of the intellectual
level and interests of the membership. Miss Neely says, "We
have had excellent returns on the folder and order blank for
Marsh, Modern Problems in the Ancient World which you were395
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