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Assembly Joint Resolution No.70--Relative to the Smithsonian Institution.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AJR 70, Fazio. Smithsonian Institution.

This measure would request that the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution conduct a study to determine the feasibility of a joint federal-state effort to establish a western bureau of the Smithsonian Institution in Sacramento, California.

WHEREAS, California is the Union's most populous state, rich in natural, cultural, and technological history; and

WHEREAS, Historic Sacramento is the capitol of California, site of the terminus of the Pony Express and original railhead of the great transcontinental railroad, which saw the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads link on May 10, 1869, bringing together the West with the East; and

WHEREAS, Sacramento will soon be the home of the California State Railroad Museum, and possesses, in the California Exposition, an excellent and well-developed prospective site for the location of a western bureau of the Smithsonian Institution; and
WHEREAS, The Smithsonian Institution was founded ". . .for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men"; and

WHEREAS, The Smithsonian Institution could serve its founding purpose, extending great cultural and educational benefits to the people of California and other western states, by locating a bureau at the California Exposition; and

WHEREAS, A Sacramento bureau of the Smithsonian Institution would provide unique advantages to the many major academic institutions of California and other western states; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of 

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