CHAPTER 894
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
RUSSELL W. PETERSON
GOVERNOR OF THE SAID STATE
To all Person
s
to whom
the
se
Pre
s
ent
s
shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS, an election
was
held in the State of Delaware, on Tuesday, third day of November, in
the year
of
our
Lord one thousand nine hundred
and
seventy,
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 AUDITOR of
the State
of D
e
laware.
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 AUDITOR were cast as follows, to wit:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
Lewis C. Wrightson 48,215
George W. Cripps 60,745
KENT COUNTY
Lewis C. Wrightson 8,849
George W. Cripps 10,940
SUSSEX COUNTY
Lewis C. Wrightson 12,350
George W. Cripps 13,045
Jerry Rubin 1
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 AUDITOR the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for Lewis C. Wrightson 69,414
Whole number of votes for George W. Cripps 84,730
Whole number of votes for Jerry Rubin 1
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Russell W. Peterson, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that George W. Cripps has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore, has been and is duly and legally elected the STATE AUDITOR of and for the State of Delaware.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the twenty-seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and ninety-fifth.
(GREAT SEAL)
By the Governor:
RUSSELL W. PETERSON
EUGENE BUNTING, Secretary of State
STATE OF DELAWARE
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DOVER
November 3, 1970
In compliance with the provisions of Section 907, Title 29, as Amended, Delaware Code, I have caused to be examined the original enrolled Bills and Resolutions and Proclamations of the Governor and other Orders of a public nature, and have collated the text of this Volume with the originals on file and corrected any discrepancies and have caused to be published this education of the Laws of Delaware passed by the 125th General Assembly at its first regular Session which convened on Tuesday, the seventh day of January, A.D. 1969 and terminated without formal adjournment sine die at the beginning of the second regular Session of the 125th General Assembly and at it second regular Session which convened on Tuesday, the thirteenth day of January, A.D 1970 and terminated without formal adjournment sine die with the election of the members of the 126th General Assembly.
Eugene Bunting
Secretary of State