PRINTER'S NO. 1840
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
347
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY MAKO, HAHN, DiGIROLAMO, MILLARD, PICKETT,
HENNESSEY, SOLOMON, OBERLANDER, BURNS, BIZZARRO, BARRAR,
DONATUCCI, POLINCHOCK, KORTZ, BERNSTINE, RYAN, O'NEAL,
PASHINSKI, COX, MALONEY, HILL-EVANS, CALTAGIRONE, ROZZI,
WILLIAMS, HICKERNELL, SONNEY, EMRICK, MATZIE, JAMES,
YOUNGBLOOD, SCHLOSSBERG, BROWN, LONGIETTI, McNEILL, SCHMITT,
BOBACK, TOEPEL, GOODMAN, KULIK AND SCHLEGEL CULVER,
MAY 15, 2019
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
MAY 15, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Designating June 12, 2019, as "National Guard Day" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, In 1747, Benjamin Franklin organized the Associators
of Philadelphia; and
WHEREAS, Units of today's Pennsylvania National Guard trace
their lineage to the first Associators; and
WHEREAS, In 1755, the General Assembly of the Province of
Pennsylvania received a great number of petitions from the
several counties of the province "setting forth, That the
Petitioners were very willing to defend themselves and their
Country, and desirous of being formed into regular Bodies for
that Purpose, instructed and disciplined under proper Officers,
with suitable and legal Authority"; and
WHEREAS, Responding to these petitions, the representatives
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