Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 482

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 sixty-four, 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

Belle Everett 81,119

W. Glenn Matthews 63,397

KENT COUNTY

Belle Everett 12,219

W. Glenn Matthews 9,357

SUSSEX COUNTY

Belle Everett 17,770

W. Glenn Matthews 14,361

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 State Treasurer, the result appears as follows, to wit:

Whole number of votes for

Belle Everett 111,108

Whole number of votes for

W. Glenn Matthews 87,115

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ELBERT N. CARVEL, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Belle Everett has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected State Treasurer of 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 sixty-four, and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and eighty-ninth.

(GREAT SEAL)

By the Governor:

ELBERT N. CARVEL

ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State