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Show Revenue Marine Service Flag. Tho rovenuo marine service flng, authorized au-thorized by act of Congress March 2, 1799, was originally proscribed to "consist "con-sist of sixteen perpendicular stripes, altcrnato red and white, tho union of tho onslgn bearing tho arms ot the United States in dark blue on a white field." Tho sixteen stripos represented tho number of Btatos which had been admitted to tho union at that tlmo and no chango has been made since. Prior to 1871 it boro an eagle (tho union of tho pennant, which was then substituted substi-tuted by thirteen blue stars In a whlto Hold, but tho eagle and sttrs aro tlll rotnlncd In the flag. w |