CHAPTER 375
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
J. CALEB BOGGS
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 fifty-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 a 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 counties respectively for such TREASURER were cast as follows, to wit:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
Vera G. Davis 67,665
Edna Erasure 58,837
KENT COUNTY
Vera G. Davis 9,638
Edna Brasure 9,800
SUSSEX COUNTY
Vera G. Davis 15,318
Edna Brasure 14,685
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 Treasurer the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for
Vera G. Davis 92,621
Whole number of votes for
Edna Brasure 83,322
NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Vera G. Davis has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the Treasurer of and for the State of Delaware.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the Fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and eighty-first.
(GREAT SEAL)
J. CALEB BOGGS
By the Governor:
JOHN N. McDOWELL, Secretary of State