Note 47 — Chapter IX
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The United States national ensign has at the different dates been composed as follows:
1776—The Union Jack of Queen Anne and thirteen stripes.
1777—Thirteen stars and thirteen stripes.
1794—Fifteen stars and fifteen stripes.
1818—Fifteen stars and thirteen stripes. Thereafter an additional star was added as each new State was created out of the western territories, the stripes for the original thirteen colonies remaining the same.
1896—Forty-five stars and thirteen stripes.
1909—Forty-six stars and thirteen stripes.