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File of Council, City of Pittsburgh, Series 1925, File No. 1877, Bill No. 4361, Presented by Mr. Garland, December 14, 1925, In Committee on Finance, December 15, 1925, Affirmatively Recommended.
An Ordinance--Confirming and establishing the Arms
of the City of Pittsburgh and providing permanent descriptive and graphic
records therof.
Whereas, A certain device, adapted from the family arms of William
Pitt,
First Lord Chatham, has long been and is now employed as the Official
Arms of the City of Pittsburgh and as the distinctive feature of its
Great Seal; and,
Whereas, No ordinance or minute of Council establishing and
describing
the said device is extant, all records pertaining thereto having been
destroyed with other of the municipal archives in the great fire of
1845; and,
Whereas, The design of the said City Arms, as of custom employed,
should
be firmed, and the permanence and integrity thereof insured by proper
record and description established in law;
Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the City of Pittsburgh, in
Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority
of the same, That
The Arms of the City of Pittsburgh have been, and are, properly rendered
as follows, to-wit:
On a field Sable, a fess chequay Argent et Azure, between three bezants bearing eagles rising with wings displayed and inverted Or. For crest, Sable a triple-towered castle masoned Argent.Section 2. That an accurate colored rendering of the device, done in permanent pigments upon parchment, together with a line drawing of the same in fast black ink upon stout white paper be prepared by a competent person under the direction of the municipal Art Commission, and that these drawings be placed under glass in a fire-proof container, and preserved in the archives of Council.