Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 545

STATE OF DELAWARE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

PROCLAMATION

ELBERT N. CARVEL, 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-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 GOVERNOR 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 Governor were cast as follows, to wit:

NEW CASTLE COUNTY

Elbert N. Carvel 55,985

James Caleb Boggs 62,769

KENT COUNTY

Elbert N. Carvel 9,853

James Caleb Boggs 9,797

SUSSEX COUNTY

Elbert N. Carvel 15,934

James Caleb Boggs 16,411

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 Governor the result appears as follows, to wit:

Whole number of votes for Elbert N. Carvel 81,772

Whole number of votes for James Caleb Boggs 88,977

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elbert N. Carvel, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that James Caleb Boggs has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the Governor of and for the State of Delaware.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the Thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Fifty-two and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and Seventy-seventh.

(GREAT SEAL)

By the Governor:

ELBERT N. CARVEL

HARRIS B. McDOWELL, JR., Secretary of State.