Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 468

STATE OF DELAWARE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, the Sixteenth Rifle Company, United States Marine Corps Reserve, the only organized Marine Corps Reserve unit in Delaware, will observe its fifth anniversary on April first; and

WHEREAS, because this unit has been ever conscientious and faithful in the performance of its duty to the state and nation, it merits the approbation of all the citizens of Delaware for extreme devotion to the continued preparation for defense; and

WHEREAS, its members faithfully give of their time in order that they may be fully prepared for any emergency, for which we owe them a debt of gratitude; now

THEREFORE, I, J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby reserve and proclaim the week beginning April 1, 1958, as

MARINE CORPS RESERVE WEEK IN DELAWARE

and urge all Delawareans to join us in a salute and hearty "well done" to the officers and members of the Sixteenth Rifle Company, U. S. M. C. R.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, J. Caleb Boggs, Governor of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed at Dover this Second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and eighty-second.

(GREAT SEAL)

J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor

JOHN N. McDOWELL, Secretary of State