CHAPTER 360
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
J. CALEB BOGGS, 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 4th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, 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 a TREASURER 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 Treasurer were cast as follows, to wit:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
Belle Everett 53,691
Vera G. Davis 54,536
KENT COUNTY
Belle Everett 9,109
Vera G. Davis 8,440
SUSSEX COUNTY
Belle Everett 13,814
Vera G. Davis 13,068
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 Treasurer the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for
Belle Everett 76,614
Whole number of votes for
Vera G. Davis 76,044
NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Belle Everett has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the Treasurer of and for the State of Delaware.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and eighty-third.
(GREAT SEAL)
J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor
GEORGE J. SCHULZ, Secretary of State