0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 26
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                             MIMI STEWART
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO ISSUE
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0012|     AND PROCLAIM THE OFFICIAL TARTAN OF NEW MEXICO.
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0013|     
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0014|          WHEREAS, many New Mexicans of Scottish descent have made
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0015|     significant contributions to the culture of New Mexico; and
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0016|          WHEREAS, the Saint Andrew Scottish society of New Mexico
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0017|     solicited tartan pattern designs and subsequently held a vote
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0018|     and selected a tartan from thirty-one submissions to be called
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0019|     the New Mexico land of enchantment tartan; and
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0020|          WHEREAS, the official tartan is a distinct tartan that
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0021|     may be worn by any resident or friend of New Mexico whether or
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0022|     not of Scottish heritage; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, the official state tartan is comprised of a
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0024|     pattern designed from the tartan of our first territorial
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0025|     governor, James S. Calhoun; and
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0001|          WHEREAS, the deep blue and green are symbolic of the
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0002|     colors of our first governor's tartan; and
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0003|          WHEREAS, the gold is reflective of our New Mexican
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0004|     desert; and
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0005|          WHEREAS, the brilliance of the red symbolizes the red in
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0006|     our flag and the red stripe in the tartan of our first
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0007|     territorial governor James S. Calhoun; and
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0008|          WHEREAS, to officially register a tartan with the
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0009|     Scottish Tartan society in Pitlochry, Scotland, legislative
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0010|     action is required;
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0011|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0012|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the governor and the secretary of
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0013|     state be requested to issue and proclaim the official tartan
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0014|     as the tartan having a pattern or sett consisting of primary
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0015|     blocks of deep blue and green separated by bands of red and
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0016|     two bands of gold based on the ancient Colquhoun tartan, the
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0017|     tartan of our first territorial governor; and
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0018|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0019|     transmitted to the governor and to the secretary of state.
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