CHAPTER 480
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
ELBERT N. CARVEL
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE
To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS, An election was held in the State of Delaware, on Tuesday, the 3rd day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four 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 a Representative for the people of the said State, in the Eighty-Ninth CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
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 Representative were cast as follows, to wit:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
Harris B. McDowell, Jr. 82,062
James H. Snowden 62,868
George A. LaForest 76
KENT COUNTY
Harris B. McDowell, Jr. 12,418
James H. Snowden 9,129
SUSSEX COUNTY
Harris B. McDowell, Jr. 17,881
James H. Snowden 14,257
AND WHEREAS, The said returns of the election for the choice of a Representative of and for the said State in the Eighty-Ninth Congress 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 Representative, the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for
Harris B. McDowell, Jr. 112,361
Whole number of votes for
James H. Snowden 86,254
Whole number of votes for
George A. LaForest 76
NOW, THEREFORE, I, ELBERT N. CARVEL, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Harris B. McDowell, Jr., has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the Representative of and for the State of Delaware in the Eighty-Ninth Congress of the United States.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the 13th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and eighty-ninth.
(GREAT SEAL)
ELBERT N. CARVEL
By the Governor:
ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State