Executive Order 10510

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Executive Order 10510 by President of the United States Establishing a Seal for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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Signed by President  Dwight D. Eisenhower  December 17, 1953

Federal Register  page & date: 18 FR 8527, December 19, 1953

See Executive Order 12608, September 9, 1987

Establishing a Seal for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

WHEREAS the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare has adopted and has recommended that I approve a seal of office for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the design of which accompanies and is hereby made a part of this order, and which is described in heraldic terms as follows:

SHIELD: Argent an open book with sanguine binding charged overall with a staff of Aesculapius paleways within an annulet of chain all proper.

CREST: On a wreath argent and sanguine an American bald eagle displayed and wings partially inverted proper.

Below the shield a white scroll inscribed with the motto "SPES ANCHORA VITAE" in black letters, all on a circular sanguine background within a white band, inner edge white, outer edge sanguine, and inscribed "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE U. S. A.";

AND WHEREAS it appears that such seal is of suitable design an appropriate for adoption as the official seal of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, I hereby approve such seal as the official seal of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The White House

December 17, 1953

Notes

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).