CHAPTER 583
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 and Laws of the State of Delaware, in that behalf, for the election of an Auditor of Accounts for 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 Auditor of Accounts were cast as follows, to wit:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
George W. Cripps 66,590
Dr. Charles F. Moore 48,640
KENT COUNTY
George W. Cripps 10,034
Dr. Charles F. Moore 8,984
SUSSEX COUNTY
George W. Cripps 14,052
Dr. Charles F. Moore 13,280
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 Auditor of Accounts, the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for
George W. Cripps 90,676
Whole number of votes for
Dr. Charles F. Moore 70,904
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Charles L. Terry, Jr., Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare George W. Cripps has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected Auditor of Accounts for 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