00                   SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 4                                                                   
01 Relating to the name of the City of Fairbanks and changing that name to Barnette's                                      
02 Cache.                                                                                                                  
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04       WHEREAS there is located at the confluence of the Tanana and Chena Rivers in this                               
05 state a city of pride and prosperity that has long been suffering under the burden of a non-                            
06 indigenous name; and                                                                                                    
07       WHEREAS this fair city located approximately 130 miles south of the Arctic Circle                               
08 with an approximate elevation of 448 feet and being the chief town of central Alaska, port of                           
09 entry, and railroad terminus, deserves an appellation compatible with its history and Alaska                            
10 setting; and                                                                                                            
11       WHEREAS, as an instrumentality of the state, this city has a right to expect and                                
12 receive the full support and direction of the state legislature, particularly in matters over                           
13 which the city is not able to take effective action;                                                                    
14       BE IT RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that in response to the pleas of                                 
15 the people of the aforementioned city for freedom from the onus of a name forced upon them                              
16 by an indifferent and unfeeling federal government, the legislature does hereby endow that                              

01 city with a name that is its natural inheritance--Barnette's Cache.