CHAPTER 742
PROCLAMATION
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
RUSSELL W. PETERSON
GOVERNOR OF 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 7th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Seventy-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 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
Mary D. Jornlin 84,945
Edward S. Stansky 71,980
Donald G. Gies 1,081
Dorothy B. Hilyard 339
Edward S. Stansky 13,934
Mary D. Jornlin 11,859
Donald G. Gies 209
Dorothy B. Hilyard 61
Mary D. Jornlin 15,830
Edward S. Stansky 14,752
Donald G. Gies 238
Dorothy B. Hilyard 49
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 such and every candidate or person voted for, for such State Treasurer the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for
Whole number of votes for
Edward S. Stanksy 100,666
Whole number of votes for
Whole number of votes for
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RUSSELL W. PETERSON, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Mary D. Jornlin has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the State Treasurer of and for the State of Delaware.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the twenty-first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine
(GREAT SEAL) hundred and Seventy-two and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and Ninety-seventh.
RUSSELL W. PETERSON, Governor
WALTON H. SIMPSON, Secretary of State