CHAPTER 582
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
CHARLES L. TERRY, JR.
GOVERNOR OF THE 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 8th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Sixty-six 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 Laws of the State of Delaware, in that behalf, for the election of an Attorney General 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 the said counties respectively for such Attorney General were cast as follows, to wit:
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NEW CASTLE COUNTY
David P. Buckson
Sidney Balick
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70,115
46,642
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KENT COUNTY
David P. Buckson 11,257
Sidney Balick 7,960
SUSSEX COUNTY
David P. Buckson 15,223
Sidney Balick 12,246
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 Attorney General the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for
David P. Buckson 96,595
Whole number of votes for
Sidney Bali ck 66,848
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Charles L. Terry, Jr., Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that David P. Buck-son has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected Attorney General of the State of Delaware.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the 18th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
(GREAT SEAL) and sixty-six and of the Independence of the
said State the one hundred and ninety-first.
CHARLES L. TERRY, JR.
By the Governor:
ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State