CHAPTER 888
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
DOVER
PROCLAMATION
Whereas, in the year 1621, Pilgrim settlers in New
England paused in their struggle for
survival in a new land to
give thanks to Almighty God for the blessings
bestowed upon them; and
Whereas, it ha s been a hallowed American
tradition to con tinue this observance each year
and to set aside a day for thoughtful gratitude
for the material benefits and for the liberties
which the inhabitants of our great
Country enjoy; and
Whereas, it is especially appropriate that we
be grateful for those blessings which we
now enjoy and that we join in prayerful hope that
similar blessings may one day be the lot of all mankind in
a world free from privation and the threat of war;
and
Whereas, by a joint resolution of the Congress of the United
States and by Paragraph 501, Chapter
5, Title 1 of the Delaware Code, the fourth Thursday of
each November has been proclaimed Thanksgiving Day and is to
be observed as a legal holiday;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Russell W. Peterson, do hereby proclaim
Thursday, November 26, 1970, as
THANKSGIVING DAY
in Delaware and urge residents
of the First State, with their families and friends, to join
in heartfelt Thanksgiving for our Nation's plenty and for
our blessings of freedom and justice.
FURTHER, I request that all citizens of Delaware display
the National and State flags, and join in praying
for the attainment of a peaceful
world in which brotherhood, justice and happi
ness flourish.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Russell W. Peterson, Governor
of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed at Dover this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
seventy, and of the Independence of
the United States of America, the one hundred and ninety-fifth.
(GREAT SEAL)
RUSSELL W. PETERSON, Governor
Atte st: EUGENE BUNTING, Secretary of State