Page:1959 North Dakota Session Laws.pdf/928

928 2. That such committee shall meet at the call of the governor, who shall act as chairman of the committee. The committee shall select a vice chairman and a secretary from among its members. The committee shall appoint such subcommittees as it shall deem desirable from its own membership and from among other citizens of the state, and may adopt such rules and regulations as deemed appropriate to govern its activities in carrying out its responsibilities;

3. The committee shall enlist the aid of all departments of the state, call upon civic, patriotic, educational, fraternal, professional, and religious bodies and organizations to join in the observance, and shall cooperate with similar Dakota Territory Centennial Committees or Commissions of other states. The department of public instruction shall encourage and provide for suitable commemorative activities in the public schools of the state; and

Be It Further Resolved, that such Dakota Territory Centennial Committee shall make a report to the Thirty-seventh Legislative Assembly in regard to the plans and program for the centennial observance, and as to any further action by the legislative assembly that may be desirable to implement the proper observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the creation of the Dakota Territory.

Filed March 6, 1959.

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION "M-M"

(Committee on Delayed Bills)

STUDY OF ASPHALT AND BITUMINOUS DRIVING LANES

A concurrent resolution directing the state highway department to make a comparative study of costs of construction, maintenance, and the life expectancy of asphalt and bituminous driving lanes on the interstate highway system.

WHEREAS, the state of North Dakota is in the process of constructing hundreds of miles of interstate highways which are intended to be built to the highest practical standards; and

WHEREAS, it is the present policy of the state highway department to provide in their specifications for the use of Portland cement in the construction of driving lanes on the interstate system; and

WHEREAS, it appears that driving lanes on highways constructed from asphaltic materials can be of equal strength as concrete; and