PRINTER'S NO. 2100
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
461
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY HUTCHINSON, AUMENT, BAKER, BARTOLOTTA, BROOKS,
BROWNE, DINNIMAN, EICHELBERGER, FOLMER, HUGHES, MARTIN,
MENSCH, RAFFERTY, SABATINA, SCHWANK, TARTAGLIONE, WARD, WHITE
AND YUDICHAK, OCTOBER 15, 2018
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, OCTOBER 15, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Designating October 15, 2018, as "Sons of the American
Revolution Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, The Sons of the American Revolution, known as the
SAR, is a nonprofit organization with a long history of honoring
the institutions and values of our national experience; and
WHEREAS, Each member of this heritage society has a
documented ancestral line to a person who contributed to the
cause of American independence from 1775 through 1783; and
WHEREAS, The SAR was organized on April 30, 1889, in
conjunction with the 100th anniversary of George Washington's
first inauguration; and
WHEREAS, According to a Federal statute enacted in 1906:
"The purposes and objects of corporation are declared to be
patriotic, historical, and educational, and shall include
those intended or designed to perpetuate the memory of the
men who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of
the American Revolution, achieved the independence of the
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American people"; and
WHEREAS, An international society was constituted in 1999;
and
WHEREAS, Local, state and global chapter members are united
in their commitment to maintaining our founding principles,
institutions and historical sites; and
WHEREAS, Members are further united in fellowship,
citizenship and their lineal descent from the patriots who
pressed for American independence; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate designate October 15, 2018, as
"Sons of the American Revolution Day" in Pennsylvania.
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