Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 481

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 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 said county respectively for such Auditor of Accounts were cast as follows, to wit:

NEW CASTLE COUNTY

Charles F. Moore

Frank M. Durnall

81,069

63,087

KENT COUNTY

 

Charles F. Moore

12,441

Frank M. Durnall

8,946

SUSSEX COUNTY

 

Charles F. Moore

17,754

Frank M. Durnall

14,367

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

Charles F. Moore 111,264

Whole number of votes for

Frank M. Durnall 86,400

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ELBERT N. CARVEL, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare Charles F. Moore 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 thirteenth 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)

By the Governor:

ELBERT N. CARVEL

ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State