The words flag, standard, color or ensign, as used in §§ 1325—1327 of this title, shall include any flag, standard, color, ensign, or any picture or representation of either thereof, made of any substance, or represented on any substance, and of any size, evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States of America, or a picture or a representation of either thereof, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or by which the person seeing the same, without deliberation, may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard or ensign of the United States of America.
History —Mar. 10, 1904, p. 62, § 2, eff. Apr. 1, 1904.