{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-75-201","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 75-201","heading":"Great seal of the state of Kansas.","body":"The great seal of the state of Kansas, procured by the secretary of state, as required by the joint resolution approved May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one (which resolution was published as chapter seventy-eight [*], Laws of eighteen hundred sixty-one), shall be and remain the great seal of this state. Such seal is described in said joint resolution as follows: The east is represented by a rising sun, in the right-hand corner of the seal; to the left of it, commerce is represented by a river and a steamboat; in the foreground, agriculture is represented as the basis of the future prosperity of the state, by a settler's cabin and a man plowing with a pair of horses; beyond this is a train of ox-wagons, going west; in the background is seen a herd of buffalo, retreating, pursued by two Indians, on horseback; around the top is the motto, \"Ad astra per aspera,\" and beneath a cluster of thirty-four stars. The circle is surrounded by the words, \"Great seal of the state of Kansas. January 29, 1861.\"","path":["Chapter 75.—STATE DEPARTMENTS; PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES","Article 2.—GREAT SEAL"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch75/075_002_0001.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:14:30Z","sha256":"15096d836832a347b405b721091ba219af5c5b5e40740fba94b9a0e9e603617f","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-75-147","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-75-202"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}