the arms of the
United States, as follows: the shield charged in the field with
thirteen diagonal stripes alternately red and white.

Supporters, _dexter_, a warrior holding a sword: _sinister_, a
figure representing Peace bearing an olive branch.

The Crest, a radiant constellation of thirteen stars.

The motto, _Bello vel Pace_.

The legend round the achievement, "Seal of the United States."

On the Reverse the figure of Liberty, seated in a chair, holding the
staff and cap.

The Motto, "Semper," underneath MDCCLXXVI.

This report was taken into consideration on May 17, and after debate
ordered to be recommitted. The result was another report:

The seal to be three inches in diameter, on one side the arms of the
United States, as follows: the shield charged in the field azure,
with thirteen diagonal stripes, alternate rouge and argent.

Supporters, _dexter_, a warrior holding a sword; _sinister_, a
figure representing Peace, bearing the olive branch.

The Crest, a radiant constellation, of thirteen stars.

The motto, _Bello vel Pace_.

The legend round the achievement, "The Great Seal of the United
States."

On the Reverse, _Virtute Perennis_, underneath MDCCLXXVII.

A miniature of the face of the great seal and half its diameter to
be prepared and affixed as the less seal of the United States.

But our critical forefathers were still dissatisfied, and exhibited no
more disposition to adopt the false heraldry of the committee of 1779
than the allegorical and Biblical monstrosity of that of 1776. Three
years more of incubation were needed to hatch the "bird o' freedom," and
it is not until 1782 that we hear of a further movement. On June 13 of
that year, William Barton of Philadelphia proposed the following for the
arms of the United States:

Arms, Paleways of thirteen pieces argent and gules; a chief azure,
the escutcheon placed on the breast of the 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 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