COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 17(By Delegates A. Evans and Sponaugle)

Requesting the Division of Highways to name the bridge locally known as the North Mill Creek Bridge on Route 220, Pendleton County, bridge number 36-220-32.32 (36A166), as the “West Virginia Militia Captain Isaac Alt Memorial Bridge.”

    Whereas, Captain Isaac Alt was a native of Pendleton County, West Virginia; and

    Whereas, Captain Isaac Alt was born January 5, 1834, in Pendleton County, Virginia, and died in what was by then Pendleton County, West Virginia on March 22, 1898; and

    Whereas, Captain Isaac Alt was elected Captain of the Pendleton County Home Guards on June 8, 1863, and then commissioned Captain of the Union Army’s 46th Militia, on July 1, 1863, during the Civil War; and

    Whereas, Captain Isaac Alt also worked as a farmer, shoemaker and carpenter during his life; and

    Whereas, It is fitting to honor Captain Isaac Alt’s life and service by naming the North Mill Creek Bridge after him; therefore, be it

    Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That the Legislature hereby requests the Division of Highways to name the bridge locally known as the North Mill Creek Bridge on Route 220, Pendleton County, bridge number 36-220-32.32 (36A166), as the “West Virginia Militia Captain Isaac Alt Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

    Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge as the “West Virginia Militia Captain Isaac Alt Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

    Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation; and Captain Isaac Alt’s surviving relatives.