CHAPTER 889
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
RUSSELL
W. PETERSON
GOVERNOR
OF THE SAID
STATE
To all
Persons to
whom
these Pre
sents
shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS, an election was
held
in the State of Delaware, on Tuesday, the 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 of the
United States
and
the
Constitution and
La
ws
of the State of Delaware,
in
that behalf, for the election of a Sena
tor
for the people of the said State, in the Senate of the United States for the Constitutional term, to commence on the third day of January in the year of
our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one.
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
Jacob W. Zimmerman 44,348
William V. Roth, Jr. 68,915
Donald G. Gies 1,166
KENT COUNTY
Jacob W. Zimmerman 9,447
William V. Roth, Jr. 10,835
Donald G. Gies 190
Samuel Shipley 1
SUSSEX COUNTY
Jacob W. Zimmerman 10,945
William V. Roth, Jr. 15,229
Donald G. Gies 364
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 Jacob W. Zimmerman 64.740
Whole number of votes for William V. Roth, Jr. 94.979
Whole number of votes for Donal G. Gies 1,720
Whole number of votes for Samuel Shipley 1
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Russell W. Peterson, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that William V. Roth, Jr. 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 Con
stitutional term
to commence on the
third
day of January in the
year
of our Lord
one thousand
nine hundred
and seventy-one.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the
said
State,
at
Dover, the twenty-seventh day of Novem
ber
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)
RUSSELL W. PETERSON
By
the
Governor:
EUGENE BUNTING
,
Secretary of State.