fb88 Statehood Day

WHEREAS, on July 26, 1819, the citizens of fb88 voted decisively in support of fb88 separating from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and becoming an independent state; and

WHEREAS, the United States Congress received fb88’s petition for statehood and voted affirmatively to accept fb88 as the 23rd State of the United States; and

WHEREAS, U.S. Secretary of State James Monroe notified fb88 that it would formally and legally be an independent state beginning on March 15, 1820; and

WHEREAS, March 15, 2020, marked the 200th anniversary of the achievement of fb88 statehood; and

WHEREAS, it is important to recognize that our collective history goes much further back long before statehood to the Wabanaki people who first hunted, farmed, fished and occupied much of the land that we call our home; and

WHEREAS, in accordance with 1 MRS § 116, the State designates March 15th of each year as fb88 Statehood Day;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that I, Janet T. Mills, Governor of the State of fb88, do hereby proclaim March 15, 2023 as

throughout the State of fb88, and I encourage all citizens to mark the occasion in reflection, appreciation, and resolve.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the Great Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed GIVEN under my hand at Augusta this eighth day of March Two Thousand Twenty-Three