Kansas Statutes

Chapter 75: State Departments; Public Officers And Employees

Article 2: Great Seal

Statutes:

• 75-201: Great seal of the state of Kansas.
• 75-202: Record of seal.
• 75-203: Custody and use of seal.

• 75-201: Great seal of the state of Kansas. 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."

        History:   L. 1879, ch. 166, § 15; March 20; R.S. 1923, 75-201.

• 75-202: Record of seal. The description in writing of the great seal of the state, deposited and recorded in the office of the secretary of state, shall be and remain a public record.

        History:   L. 1879, ch. 166, § 16; March 20; R.S. 1923, 75-202.

• 75-203: Custody and use of seal. The great seal of the state shall be kept in the executive office, and shall be used only in attestation of the proclamations, commissions and executive warrants issued by the governor, and of all obligations of the state issued in pursuance of law, and of such acts of authentication as may be required under the laws of the United States, and under the rules of comity between states.

        History:   L. 1879, ch. 166, § 17; March 20; R.S. 1923, 75-203.