Note 841 — Chapter VI

The corporate seal adopted had two faces. That for the authentication of legislative acts, deeds, and commissions contained this device: two figures resting upon urns, from which flowed streams typifying the rivers forming the northern and southern boundaries of the province. In their hands were spades, suggesting agriculture as the chief employment of the settlers. Above and in the centre was seated the genius of the Colony, a spear in her right hand, the left placed upon a cornucopia, and a liberty cap upon her head. Behind, upon a gentle eminence, stood a tree, and above was engraven this legend, Colonia Georgia Aug. On the other face,—which formed the common seal to be affixed to grants, orders, and certificates,—were seen silk-worms in the various stages of their labor, and the appropriate motto, Non sibi sed aliis. This inscription not only proclaimed the disinterested motives and intentions of the trustees, but it suggested that the production of silk was to be reckoned among the most profitable employments of the colonists,—a hope not destined to be fulfilled.