0001|                    SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 40
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND
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0003|     SESSION, 1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                        TOM R. BENAVIDES
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0011|                        A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0012|     REQUESTING THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE TO CONSIDER CHANGING THE
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0013|     SPELLING OF ALBUQUERQUE TO THE ORIGINAL SPELLING.
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0014|     
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0015|       WHEREAS, Albuquerque was originally spelled "Alburquerque"
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0016|     like that of a city once in Portugal, which is now located in
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0017|     the province of Badajoz, Spain about ten miles east of the
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0018|     Portuguese border; and
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0019|       WHEREAS, the records of New Mexico's twenty-eighth colonial
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0020|     governor, Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdez, state that in the early
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0021|     part of 1706 the governor founded a villa that he named San
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0022|     Francisco de Alburquerque in honor of Don Francisco Fernandez de
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0023|     la Cueva Enriquez, Duque de Alburquerque, the thirty-fourth
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0024|     Viceroy of New Spain, then residing in Mexico City.  Don
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0025|     Francisco Fernandez was the second titled Duke of Alburquerque
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0001|     to serve as Viceroy of New Spain and was tenth in succession
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0002|     from the first Duke of Alburquerque, Don Beltran de la Cueva,
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0003|     who received the Portuguese dukedom in 1464 from King Enrique
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0004|     IV; and
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0005|       WHEREAS, the spelling "Alburquerque" appears in the report
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0006|     of the Marques de Altamira to the auditor general of war, dated
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0007|     September 16, 1750; and 
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0008|       WHEREAS, the "r" in the second syllable of the name was
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0009|     dropped by English-speaking people early in the nineteenth
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0010|     century, as the narratives of Zebulon Pike in 1807, George W.
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0011|     Kendall in 1841 and J.F. Meline in 1866 testify; and 
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0012|       WHEREAS, the "r" spelling persists in Spanish documents as
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0013|     late as Escudero's <u>Noticias</u> in 1849;
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0014|       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0015|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the city of Albuquerque be asked to
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0016|     consider changing the spelling of Albuquerque to conform to its
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0017|     original spelling; and
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0018|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0019|     transmitted to the members of the Albuquerque city council.
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0020|                                    
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0022|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0023|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0001|                                              February 3, 1996
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0002|   
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0003|   Mr. President:
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0004|   
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0005|     Your RULES COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0006|   
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0007|                    SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 40
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0008|   
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0009|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0010|   recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0011|   FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0012|   
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0013|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0018|                              Gloria Howes, Chairman 
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0022|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0023|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0001|                     Date ________________________
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0004|   The roll call vote was <u> 3 </u> For <u> 2 </u> Against
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0005|   Yes:  3
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0006|   No:        Donisthorpe, Howes
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0007|   Excused:   Altamirano, Aragon, EJennings, Rutherford
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0008|   Absent:    0
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