0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 57
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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|                         JAMES ROGER MADALENA
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0009|     
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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, the New Mexico tartan has no one group,
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0015|     association, society or organization proposing the New Mexico
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0016|     tartan pattern; and
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0017|          WHEREAS, the New Mexico tartan is made in the United
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0018|     States of America; and
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0019|          WHEREAS, most states have already adopted a state tartan;
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0020|     and
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0021|          WHEREAS, the New Mexico tartan's thread design is
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0022|     available to all citizens for duplication; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, the New Mexico tartan, by name and production,
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0024|     was available as early as 1996; and
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0025|          WHEREAS, the New Mexico tartan was recorded with the
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0001|     Scottish tartans authority in Pitlochry, Scotland in 1996; and
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0002|          WHEREAS, the New Mexico tartan was registered with the
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0003|     secretary of state in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1996; and
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0004|          WHEREAS, the designer intended the New Mexico tartan to
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0005|     be shared by all citizens, regardless of cultural, racial or
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0006|     political background and not to be coveted by one group;
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0007|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0008|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the governor and the secretary of
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0009|     state be requested to declare the New Mexico tartan as the one
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0010|     so registered with the Scottish tartans authority and the
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0011|     secretary of state and having the colors of blue, for the all-
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0012|     encompassing sky; green, for the state's plant life and
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0013|     forests; red, for the original cultural providers; and gold,
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0014|     for the minerals and the desert; and
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0015|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0016|     transmitted to the governor, the secretary of state and the
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0017|     Scottish tartans authority.
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0018|                              
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