CHAPTER 500
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE OF DELAWARE
PROCLAMATION
ELBERT N. CARVEL
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 6th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two, 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 a State Treasurer 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 said county respectively for such State Treasurer were cast as follows, to wit:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
Belle Everett 52,808
Louise Conner 54,530
KENT COUNTY
Belle Everett 10,242
Louise Conner 7,682
SUSSEX COUNTY
Belle Everett 14,581
Louise Conner 12,438
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 State Treasurer the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for
Belle Everett 77,631
Whole number of votes for
Louise Conner 74,650
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elbert N. Carve], Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Belle Everett has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the State Treasurer of and for the State of Delaware.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the 26th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and eighty-seventh.
(GREAT SEAL)
ELBERT N. CARVEL
By the Governor:
ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State