CHAPTER 363
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
To all Persons to whom, these Presents shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS, An election was held in the State of Delaware, on Tuesday, the fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, 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; and
WHEREAS, Subsequent to the provisions of Chapter 61, Volume 51, Laws of Delaware, Chapter 65, Volume 51, Laws of Delaware, provides that, "The Departments of Elections in each county shall cause to be printed on the ballots used in the general election of 1958 the following question for submission to the voters of each district mentioned in Article 2, Section 17A of the Constitution:
'Do you favor the licensing of the playing of the game of bingo within the limits of
(insert the words, "City of Wilmington", "Sussex County", "Kent County", or "New Castle County outside of the City of Wilmington", as the case may be) ?' "
WHEREAS, The official certificates or returns, of the referendum, held in the several counties and the City of Wilmington of the said State, having been duly received and examined by the Governor, it appears from them that the votes in the City of Wilmington; New Castle County outside of the City of Wilmington; Kent County and Sussex County respectively on the referendum on bingo were cast as follows, to wit:
CITY OF WILMINGTON
Votes cast in favor of licensing the playing of the game of
Bingo within the limits of the City of Wilmington 20,966
Votes cast opposing the licensing of the playing of the game of
Bingo within the limits of the City of Wilmington 7,374
NEW CASTLE COUNTY OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON
Votes cast in favor of licensing the playing of the game of Bingo
within the limits of New Castle County outside of the
City of Wilmington 31,003
Votes cast opposing the licensing of the playing of the game of
Bingo within the limits of New Castle County outside of
the City of Wilmington 22,339
KENT COUNTY
Votes cast in favor of licensing the playing of the game of
Bingo within the limits of Kent County 6,166
Votes cast opposing the licensing of the playing of the
game of Bingo within the limits of Kent County 3,009
SUSSEX COUNTY
Votes cast in favor of licensing the playing of the game of
Bingo within the limits of Sussex County 7,062
NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that a majority vote was cast in favor of licensing the playing of the game of Bingo in the City of Wilmington; New Castle County outside of the City of Wilmington; Kent County and Sussex County, respectively in the above mentioned referendum, and that conduct of the game of Bingo may proceed pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution and Laws of the State of Delaware in that behalf.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, J. Caleb Boggs, Governor of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed at Dover this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and eighty-third.
(GREAT SEAL)
J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor
GEORGE J. SCHULZ, Secretary of State