CHAPTER 384 - STATE OF DELAWARE - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT PROCLAMATION

WALTER W. BACON, GOVERNOR OF THE SAID STATE

To All Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS, An election was held in the State of Delaware, on Tuesday, the 7th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-four that being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in said month, in pursuance of the Constitution and Laws of the State of Delaware, in that behalf, for the election of an AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE.

AND WHEREAS, The official certificates or returns, of the said election, held in the several counties of the said State, having been duly received and examined by the Governor, it appears from them that the votes in said county respectively for such Auditor of Accounts were cast as follows, to wit:

NEW CASTLE COUNTY

Wilbur E. Jacobs 44,470

Joseph Morris Harrington 42,617

KENT COUNTY

Wilbur E. Jacobs 7,575

Joseph Morris Harrington 7,503

SUSSEX COUNTY

Wilbur E. Jacobs 10,719

Joseph Morris Harrington 12,180

AND WHEREAS, The said returns of the election as aforesaid, duly made out, signed and executed, having been duly delivered to the Governor by the Superior Court of said counties, and the Governor having examined said returns as aforesaid, and enumerated and ascertained the number of votes for each and every candidate or person voted for, for such Auditor of Accounts the result appears as follows, to wit:

Whole number of votes for

Wilbur E. Jacobs 62,764

Whole number of votes for

Joseph Morris Harrington 62,300

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Walter W. Bacon, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Wilbur E. Jacobs has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the Auditor of Accounts of and for the State of Delaware.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-four and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and sixty-ninth.

(GREAT SEAL)

By the Governor:

WALTER W. BACON

WILLIAM J. STOREY, Secretary of State.