Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 499

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 second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, 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 purpose of choosing by ballot three Electors for the election of a

PRESIDENT

and VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:

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 Electors, were cast as follows, to wit:

NEW CASTLE COUNTY

Thomas L. Gregory 226

Nora Wroten 226

Elizabeth M. Bringhurst 226

Elizabeth S. Lilly 232

Dorothy E. Jones 232

Miles E. Barber 232

Martha Grabowski 25

Elvin Baker 25

Helen E. Jerominski 25

KENT COUNTY

Thomas L. Gregory 65

Nora Wroten 65

Elizabeth M. Bringhurst 65

Elizabeth S. Lilly 4

Dorothy E. Jones 4

Miles E. Barber 4

Martha Grabowski 2

Elvin Baker 2

Helen E. Jerominski 2

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 Electors, the result appears as follows, to wit:

NOW, THEREFORE, I Walter W. Bacon, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Lammot duPont Copeland, Rosanna B. Marshall, and George Clifton Maull, Sr., have received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and

therefore have been and are duly and legally elected Electors for the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States.

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 hun-

(GREAT SEAL) dred and forty-eight and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and seventy-third.

By the Governor:

WALTER W. BACON

WILLIAM J. STOREY, Secretary of State.