OREIGCE -©F MAYOR

BURLEIGH E. HANNING

The City of Bellingham

Washington

Aug. 12, 1938.

Mayor Burleigh E. Hanning,
City of Bellingham.

| BRITISH COLUMBIA PROVINCIAL POLICE,
| YOUR ‘HONOURABLE ORGANIZATION:

I consider it a privilege and a pleasure, as Mayor of the
City of Bellingham, Washington, to congratulate this splendid

, organization on its 80th birthday.

We in Bellingham extend to you our hands in friendship,
based upon a confidence and security thru a mutual understand-

ing among peoples born of a common mother.

The law enforcement units of our great Commonwealths
work in complete harmony to protect each other from the ravages
of crime, hatred and violence, and thru the co-operation and
intelligence of your officers the imaginary line between our
two countries is no protection to criminals on either side of

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In closing, let me again congratulate the BRITISH COLUMBIA
PROVINCIAL POLICE on their 80th birthday, and wish them
many happy returns of the day.

Yours sincerely,

Mayor.

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