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SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8002

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Senators McCaslin and Morton

Read first time 01/08/2001.  Referred to Committee on State & Local Government.

_1      TO THE HONORABLE GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED

_2  STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKERS OF THE

_3  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF

_4  REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED:

_5      We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives

_6  of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled,

_7  respectfully represent and petition as follows:

_8      WHEREAS, The United States Constitution, Article IV, section 3

_9  states in part that ". . . no new state shall be formed or erected

10  within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be

11  formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states,

12  without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as

13  well as of the congress."; and

14      WHEREAS, That portion of the state from the crest of the

15  Cascade Mountains east to the existing state border, including the

16  Wenatchee and Yakima valleys, has sought and desired to become a

17  separate and independent state; and

18      WHEREAS, The legislators of the State of Washington do agree

19  with and consent to that desire to create a new state from the

20  territory herein mentioned;

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_1      NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the

_2  Congress of the United States consent to the formation of a new

_3  state whose western boundary is the crest of the Cascade Mountains

_4  and whose eastern, northern, and southern boundaries are the

_5  existing state borders, to include the Wenatchee and Yakima

_6  valleys.

_7      BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately

_8  transmitted to the Honorable George W. Bush, President of the

_9  United States, the President of the United States Senate, the

10  Speakers of the House of Representatives, and each member of

11  Congress from the State of Washington.

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