PRINTER'S NO. 959
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
159
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY REGAN, IOVINO, ARGALL, AUMENT, BAKER, BARTOLOTTA,
BLAKE, BOSCOLA, BREWSTER, BROOKS, BROWNE, COLLETT, COSTA,
DINNIMAN, FARNESE, FOLMER, FONTANA, GORDNER, HUGHES,
HUTCHINSON, KILLION, LANGERHOLC, MARTIN, MENSCH, PHILLIPS-
HILL, SANTARSIERO, SCHWANK, TARTAGLIONE, VOGEL, J. WARD,
L. WILLIAMS AND YAW, JUNE 12, 2019
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, JUNE 12, 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
of the Province of Pennsylvania, meeting in General Assembly,
passed this Commonwealth's first militia law on November 25,
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