CHAPTER 479
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
ELBERT N. CARVEL
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE
To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS, An election was held in the State of Delaware, on Tuesday, the 3rd day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and 64 that being the Tuesday next one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four 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 a Senator for the people of the said State, in the Senate of the United States for the Constitutional term, to commence on the 3rd day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five.
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 Senator were cast as follows, to wit:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
John J. Williams 74,830
Elbert N. Carvel 71,484
Joseph P. Hollon 71
KENT COUNTY
John J. Williams 11,647
Elbert N. Carvel 10,140
SUSSEX COUNTY
John J. Williams 17,305
Elbert N. Carvel 15,226
AND WHEREAS, The said returns of the election for the choice of a Senator of and for the said State in the Senate of the United States, 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 Senator, the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for
John J. Williams 103,782
Whole number of votes for
Elbert N. Carvel 96,850
Whole number of votes for
Joseph B. Hollon 71
NOW, THEREFORE, I, ELBERT N. CARVEL, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that John J. Williams has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected Senator of and for the State of Delaware in the Senate of the United States for the Constitutional term to commence on the 3rd day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the 13th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and eighty-ninth.
(GREAT SEAL)
ELBERT N. CARVEL
By the Governor:
ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State