The committee to design a flag was appointed by legislative action February 7, 1894, and provided that the flag reported by the committee should become the official flag. They recommended for the flag "one with width two-thirds of its length; with the union square, in width two-thirds of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided into three bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one extending the whole length of the flag.  Mississippi’s anthem: “Go, Mississippi”- words and music by Houston Davis. 

The flag has a blue union, in the center is a white star with the letter N in gilt on the left and the letter C in gilt on the right, the circle is one-third the width of the union. The fly of the flag consists of two equally proportioned bars; the upper bar to be red, the lower bar to be white; the length of the bars horizontally shall be equal to the perpendicular length of the union, and the total length of the flag shall be one-third more than its width. Above the star in the center of the union is a gilt scroll in semi-circular form, containing in black letters this inscription "May 20th, 1775", and below the star there is a similar scroll containing in black letters the inscription: "April 12th, 1776".  The North Carolina anthem is, “The Old North State,” written by William Gaston and composed by Mrs. E. E. Randolph.