Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 582

STATE OF DELAWARE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

PROCLAMATION

CHARLES L. TERRY, JR.

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 8th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Sixty-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 an Attorney General 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 the said counties respectively for such Attorney General were cast as follows, to wit:

NEW CASTLE COUNTY

David P. Buckson

Sidney Balick

70,115
46,642

KENT COUNTY

David P. Buckson 11,257

Sidney Balick 7,960

SUSSEX COUNTY
David P. Buckson 15,223

Sidney Balick 12,246

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 Attorney General the result appears as follows, to wit:

Whole number of votes for

David P. Buckson 96,595

Whole number of votes for

Sidney Bali ck 66,848

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Charles L. Terry, Jr., Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that David P. Buck-son has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected Attorney General of the State of Delaware.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the 18th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred

(GREAT SEAL) and sixty-six and of the Independence of the
said State the one hundred and ninety-first.

CHARLES L. TERRY, JR.

By the Governor:

ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State