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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1989.05.11 - 17053Miscellaneous Resolution # 89121 May 11, 1989 BY: GOVERNMENT & TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE- Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson RE: HOUSE RESOLUTION #34 (SUPPORT) MEMORIALIZING CONGRESS AND THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO ISSUE AN ANNA HOWARD SHAW COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEREAS Anna Howard Shaw as a minister, physician and eloquent orator devoted her life to promoting women's suffrage; and WHEREAS she was born in England in 1847 and twelve years later she and and her family moved to Michigan and settled in IMecosta County's Green township; and WHEREAS Shaw, who died in 1919, was a temperance lecturer and abolitionist before she met Susan B. Anthony and joined the suffrage movement. She later succeeded Anthony as President of the National Women's Suffrage Association; and WHEREAS State Representative Joanne Emmons of Big Rapids and forty-eight other members of the Michigan House of Representatives signed House Resolution #34 urging Congress and the U. S. Postal Service to recognize this remarkable Michigan woman by issuing an Anna Howard Shaw commemorative stamp. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners supports House Resolution #34. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to the Michigan Congressional Delegation. Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Government & Transportation Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution. 4- GO R MENT & TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE RESOLUTION # 89121 May 11, 1989 Moved by -Skarritt supported by Oaks the resolution be adopted. AYES: Luxon, McPherson, Moffitt, Oaks, Pappageorge, Price, Skarritt, Wolf, Aaron, Bishop, Caddell, Chester, Crake, Ferrens, Gosling, Hobart, Jensen, Johnson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn. (20) NAYS: None. (0) A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted. STATE OF MICHIGAN) COUNTY OF OAKLAND) I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of the attached resolution, adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at their regular meeting held on May 11 , i9 89 with the original record thereof now remaining on file in my office, and that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole thereof. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac,Michigan this 11th day of May , 1982 LYNY'D. ALLEN, County Clerk Redister of Deeds -n151-Ity Clerk