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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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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