CHAPTER 387
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 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-six that being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in said month, in pursuance of the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and Laws of the State of Delaware, in that behalf, for the election of a Senator for the people of the said State, in the Senate of the United States for the Constitutional term, to commence on the 3rd day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.
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 the said counties respectively for such Senator were cast as follows, to wit:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
John J. Williams 42,239
James M. Tunnell 34,416
KENT COUNTY
John J. Williams 7,910
James M. Tunnell 6,858
SUSSEX COUNTY
John J. Williams 12,454
James M. Tunnell 9,636
AND WHEREAS, The said returns of the election for the choice of a Senator of and for the said State in the Senate of the United States, 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 Senator, the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for
John J. Williams 62,603
Whole number of votes for
James M. Tunnell 50,910
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Walter W. Bacon, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that John J. Williams has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected Senator of and for the State of Delaware in the Senate of the United States for the Constitutional term to commence on the 3rd day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-six and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and seventy-first.
(GREAT SEAL)
By the Governor:
WALTER W. BACON
WILLIAM J. STOREY, Secretary of State.