Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 742

PROCLAMATION

STATE OF DELAWARE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

RUSSELL W. PETERSON

GOVERNOR OF 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 Seventy-two, 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 State 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 State Treasurer were cast as follows, to wit:

NEW CASTLE COUNTY

Mary D. Jornlin 84,945

Edward S. Stansky 71,980

Donald G. Gies 1,081

Dorothy B. Hilyard 339

KENT COUNTY

Edward S. Stansky 13,934

Mary D. Jornlin 11,859

Donald G. Gies 209

Dorothy B. Hilyard 61

SUSSEX COUNTY

Mary D. Jornlin 15,830

Edward S. Stansky 14,752

Donald G. Gies 238

Dorothy B. Hilyard 49

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 such and every candidate or person voted for, for such State Treasurer the result appears as follows, to wit:

Whole number of votes for

Mary D. Jornlin 112,634

Whole number of votes for

Edward S. Stanksy 100,666

Whole number of votes for

Donald G. Gies 1,528

Whole number of votes for

Dorothy B. Hilyard 449

NOW, THEREFORE, I, RUSSELL W. PETERSON, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Mary D. Jornlin has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the State Treasurer of and for the State of Delaware.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the twenty-first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine

(GREAT SEAL) hundred and Seventy-two and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and Ninety-seventh.

RUSSELL W. PETERSON, Governor

WALTON H. SIMPSON, Secretary of State