{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-3-3-41","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 3-3-41","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 3-3-41","body":"(1) The Mississippi Coat-of-Arms shall have the following design: a shield, blue in color, with an eagle upon it with extended pinions, holding in the right talon a palm branch and bundle of arrows in the left, with the word “Mississippi” above the eagle; the lettering on the shield and the eagle to be in gold; below the shield two (2) branches of the cotton stalk, saltier wise, and a scroll below extending upward and on each side three-fourths ( 3 / 4 ) of the length of the shield; upon the scroll, which is to be red, the motto to be printed in gold letters upon white spaces, the motto to be “Virtute et Armis”; this being the same Coat-of-Arms adopted by the Legislature in Chapter 37, Laws of the Extraordinary Session of 1894.\n\n(2) The Governor of the State is authorized and empowered to procure a steel plate and one (1) metal electrotype plate for printing and engraving the Coat-of-Arms, which plates shall be preserved in the Office of the Secretary of State.","path":["MS Code","Title 3"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:17Z","sha256":"f9152aaef64e83688719f99768b494b9b6efd9d9f5f60621d0c92a1767b3ce19","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-3-3-39","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-3-3-42"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}