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[[Image:CityOfPensacolaSeal.png|right|250px|Seal of the City of Pensacola]]
 
[[Image:CityOfPensacolaSeal.png|right|250px|Seal of the City of Pensacola]]
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The '''Seal of the [[City of Pensacola]]''' is used to represent the Pensacola municipal government and for various official purposes. The current seal has been in use since [[1870]]<ref name="removecross">"Lawyer wants Pensacola to remove cross from seal." ''Pensacola News Journal'', September 14, 1997.</ref> and was officially adopted by ordinance in [[1902]], with slight modifications since.
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The '''Seal of the [[City of Pensacola]]''' is used to represent the Pensacola municipal government and for various official purposes. The current seal was officially adopted in [[1902]], with slight modifications since.
  
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At the center of the seal is a shield (''[[Wikipedia:Escutcheon (heraldry)|escutcheon]]'') charged with a [[Wikipedia:Christian cross|Christian cross]] and [[Wikipedia:Conquistador|conquistador]]'s helmet, a modified version of the [[Wikipedia:Cross and Crown|cross and crown]] that represents the religious mission of Don [[Tristán de Luna y Arellano]]. Above the escutcheon is a hand (symbolizing faith, sincerity and justice) holding a quill pen (symbolizing learned employment and the liberal arts). Five dates printed on the seal represent years when city governments were established or altered.
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At the center of the seal is a shield (''[[Wikipedia:Escutcheon (heraldry)|escutcheon]]'') charged with a [[Wikipedia:Christian cross|Christian cross]] and [[Wikipedia:Conquistador|conquistador]]'s helmet, a modified version of the [[Wikipedia:Cross and Crown|cross and crown]] that represents the religious mission of Don [[Tristán de Luna y Arellano]].
  
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The wording of the municipal code prescribes the seal as follows:
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Above the escutcheon is a hand (symbolizing faith, sincerity and justice) holding a quill pen (symbolizing learned employment and the liberal arts).
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<blockquote>The seal of the city shall have on its face, "The City of Pensacola, Florida," with a circle around a shield with a Latin-type cross in the upper central part of the shield, at the base of which shall be a helmet with plumes, and above the shield a hand with a pen in the act of signing, and on the left side of the shield the figures "1698," the year of the first settlement of Pensacola by the Spaniards, and "1821," the year of the first city government under General Andrew Jackson, United States Army, and on the right side of the shield the figures "1895" and "1913," the dates respectively of the formation of the aldermanic and commission governments, and beneath the shield the figures "1931," the date of the institution of the council-manager government.<ref>[http://library8.municode.com:80/default-test/template.htm?view=browse&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=tocid&doc_key=416385e71c146844b338cea7592e0818&infobase=11418 s. 1-1-2, Code of the City of Pensacola.]</ref></blockquote>
 
  
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For many years the first date listed on the seal was 1696, until local historians [[W. D. Skinner]] and [[Norm Simmons]] questioned the date, noting that 1698 was the year when [[Andrés de Arriola]] established a Spanish colony on [[Pensacola Bay]].<ref>"Dates Wrong on City Seal Records: 'No.'" ''Pensacola News'', April 8, 1966.</ref>
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Five dates printed on the seal represent the following, according the Code of the City of Pensacola:
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:"...On the left side of the shield the figures "[[1698]]," the year of the first settlement of Pensacola by the [[Spanish Pensacola|Spaniards]], and "[[1821]]", the year of the first city government under General [[Andrew Jackson]], United States Army, and on the right side of the shield the figures "[[1895]]" and "[[1913]]," the dates respectively of the formation of the aldermanic and [[Pensacola City Commission|commission]] governments, and beneath the shield the figures "[[1931]]," the date of the institution of the [[Pensacola city charter|council-manager government]]."<ref>[http://library8.municode.com:80/default-test/template.htm?view=browse&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=tocid&doc_key=416385e71c146844b338cea7592e0818&infobase=11418 s. 1-1-2, Code of the City of Pensacola.]</ref>
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In [[1997]], attorney [[Kevin Beck]] urged the city to remove the cross from the seal, citing constitutional concerns, and threatened to take legal action on behalf of an anonymous client. "My position would be the presence of the cross on an official city seal is tantamount to the endorsement of Christianity."<ref name="removecross"/>
 
  
 
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