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                                            HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 13

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives West, Hastings, Padden and Bond

Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Committee on Constitution, Elections & Ethics.

TO THE HONORABLE RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED:

          We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:

          WHEREAS, The United States Constitution, Article IV, section 3 states in part that ". . . no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the congress."; and

          WHEREAS, That portion of the state from the crest of the Cascade Mountains east to the existing state border, including the Wenatchee and Yakima valleys, has sought and desired to become a separate and independent state; and

          WHEREAS, The legislators of the state of Washington do agree with and consent to that desire to create a new state from the territory herein mentioned;

          NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the Congress of the United States consent to the formation of a new state whose western boundary is the crest of the Cascade Mountains and whose eastern, northern, and southern boundaries are the existing state borders, to include the Wenatchee and Yakima valleys.

          BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the Honorable Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and each member of Congress from the State of Washington.