The epistates ( ἐπιστάτης ), an official selected by lot for a single day from among the currently presiding prytany, chaired that day's meeting of the boule and, if there was one, that day's meeting of the assembly ; he also held the keys to the treasury and the seal to the city, and welcomed foreign ambassadors.

The official seal of the CIA, however, may not be copied without permission as required by the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 ().

Dartmouth's 1769 royal charter required the creation of a seal for use on official documents and diplomas.

On October 28, 1926, the trustees affirmed the charter's reservation of the seal for official corporate documents alone.

Ivory was also commonly carved into elaborate seals utilized by officials to " sign " documents and decrees by stamping them with their unique official seal.

Indeed, the official Latin title of the kings of France was Rex Francorum, i. e. " king of the Franks " ( until Louis ' grand-father's reign, Philip II whose seal reads Rex Franciae, i. e. " king of France "), and the kings of France were also known by the title " most Christian king " ( Rex Christianissimus ).

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The first day cover involving Muralitharan bears an official seal captioned as " The highest wicket taker in Test cricket, MUTHIAH MURALIDARAN, First Day of Issue 03. 12. 2007, Camp Post Office, Asgiriya International Cricket Stadium, Kandy ".

The official seal is your assurance that this product is licensed or manufactured by Nintendo.

The removal of the official seal is punishable by law.

:" taught the Shanyu ( rulers of the Xiongnu ) to write official letters to the Chinese court on a wooden tablet () 31 cm long, and to use a seal and large-sized folder ".

As the country's head of state, in most countries the president is entitled to certain perquisites, and may have a prestigious residence ; often a lavish mansion or palace, sometimes more than one ( e. g. summer and winter residence, country retreat ) – for symbols of office, such as an official uniform, decorations, a presidential seal, coat of arms, flag and other visible accessories ; military honours such as gun salutes, Ruffles and flourishes, and a presidential guard.

" The seal of Jaazaniah carries the insignia of a rooster from the ruins of the biblical Judean kingdom at Mizpah, with the inscription of " belonging to Jaazaniah, servant to the king "., the first known representation of the chicken in Palestine, and from II Kings 25: 23, we know of one Jaazaniah the Maschathit, who was an official under Gedalish at Mizpah.

In the United States, the word " seal " is sometimes assigned to a facsimile of the seal design ( in monochrome or color ), which may be used in a variety of contexts including architectural settings, on flags, or on official letterheads.

Ichadon schemed with the king, convincing him to make a proclamation granting Buddhism official state sanction using the royal seal.

During her youth, Mary I was invested by her father, Henry VIII, with many of the rights and properties traditionally given to the Prince of Wales, including use of the official seal of Wales for correspondence.

As a result of the official charter being granted four years after the official founding of the college, the Amherst seal lists a date of 1825 ( MDCCCXXV ).

The only official explanation of the symbolism of the great seal was given by Charles Thomson upon presenting the final design for adoption by Congress.

The official description of the seal states that there should be thirteen stars in the " glory " above the eagle's head, thirteen stripes on the shield, and thirteen arrows in the eagle ’ s talon.

Similar to other nations, The United States of America needed an official symbol of sovereignty to formalize and seal ( or sign ) international treaties and transactions.

Clement of Alexandria, in his Paedagogus ( The Pedagogue ) 3. 59. 2-3. 60, writes that Christians may wear a seal ring for the sealing of documents, and he specifies permissible depictions: " And let our seals be either a dove, or a fish, or a ship scudding before the wind, or a musical lyre, which Polycrates used, or a ship's anchor, which Seleucus got engraved as a device ; and if there be one fishing, he will remember the apostle, and the children drawn out of the water.

Carnelian was used widely during Roman times to make engraved gems for signet or seal rings for imprinting a seal with wax on correspondence or other important documents.

Cylinder seals were a related form of early typography capable of printing small page designs in relief ( cameo ) on wax or clay — a miniature forerunner of rotogravure printing used by wealthy individuals to seal and certify documents.

Then priests and other ecclesiastical dignities adopted coats of arms, usually to be used as seals and other such insignia, and then towns and cities to likewise seal and authenticate documents.

The seal was once required on presidential proclamations, and on some now-obsolete documents such as exequaturs and Mediterranean passports.

There was no indication that it could actually be used in a seal press, and a search of government documents showed no use of the seal anywhere.

In 1340 documents were sealed with a special seal on which a tree was planted on a little hill ( the " short " or " sharp "?).

By 246 BCE, Chinese officials were impressing their fingerprints into the clay seals used to seal documents.

The distinction between the Letters Patent forming Dartmouth versus those documents founding William & Mary or Kings College ( Columbia ) is that the seal of the Province of New Hampshire appears on the Dartmouth document, while the Great Seal of the Realm appears on the William & Mary and King's documents.

All town documents ( and the town seal ) now use the name " Manchester-by-the-Sea ", as have ( thanks to some minor resident activism ) the majority of public and private lists of Massachusetts cities and towns, including that of the state government.

Ralph also had the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury search for documents relating to the privileges of Canterbury and had those documents copied into a manuscript which still survives, BM MS Cotton Cleopatra E. His seal is one of the first to take the usual form for bishop's seals, with Ralph standing, in full vestments including a mitre, and performing a benediction with his right hand while holding his crosier in his left.

Being an officer of the Sigmund Freud Archives Masson had ' administrative access ' to all documents in the Archives, he was allowed to see anything he wanted breaking the seal whenever necessary.

These are sometimes used in place of the official University seal in official documents, such as transcripts and markers.

A tughra (; ) is a calligraphic monogram, seal or signature of an Ottoman sultan that was affixed to all official documents and correspondence.

Many legal instruments were written under seal by affixing a wax or paper seal to the document in evidence of its legal execution and authenticity ( which often removes the need for consideration in contract law ); however, today many jurisdictions have done away with the requirement of documents being under seal in order to give them legal effect.

Many coin grading services will also seal coins in a labeled, air-tight plastic holder, ensuring the coin is protected from deterioration.

The department's research facility, the Family History Library, which has developed the most extensive genealogical record-gathering program in the world, was established to assist in tracing family lineages for special religious ceremonies that Mormons believe will seal family units together for eternity.

The lettre de cachet belonged to the class of lettres closes, as opposed to lettres patentes, which contained the expression of the legal and permanent will of the king, and had to be furnished with the seal of state affixed by the chancellor.

Since they will still be working with scopes and other laparoscopic instruments, CO2 will have to be maintained in the patient's abdomen, so a device known as a hand access port ( a sleeve with a seal that allows passage of the hand ) must be used.

To produce an absolute pressure sensor the manufacturer will seal a high vacuum behind the sensing diaphragm.

Once a seal fails, hot gas will erode the escape path and result in failure.

Knowing it will seal his fate, Valentine opens the safe to rescue the child.

After a smoke test proves that " the pipes will not leak, the keys seal properly, the circuit will not burn, or the software will not crash outright ," the system is ready for more stressful testing.

Honda was not interested in traditional education, his school handed grade reports to the children, but required that it will be returned stamped with the family seal, to make sure that a parent had seen it.

Instead, the wordmark will be used on marketing materials, and the traditional seal used where a link to tradition is required.

Because of the cellular structure of cork, it is easily compressed upon insertion into a bottle and will expand to form a tight seal.

In 2010, the Warwick School Board passed a resolution that from now on, the Native American Head & Spear logos will be used for athletics and the black-and-red seal featuring the letter ' W ' will be used for academics.

For example, after a seal has been killed fresh water is poured into its mouth so that its soul will not be thirsty and it will tell the other seals of the respect shown to it.

Lukin has repeatedly reassured other signatory nations to the Antarctic Treaty System that the drilling will not affect the lake, arguing that on breakthrough, water will rush up the borehole, freeze, and seal the chemical fluids out.

When the ace of clubs is cashed East can either discard the diamond ace, after which the diamond king will seal his fate, or bare one of his major suit holdings in which case the jack in that suit will be the progressive squeeze card.

The chocolate point will have pink paw pads, whereas the seal point will have dark brown paw pads.