CHAPTER 377
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 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-FIFTH 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 said counties respectively for such Representative were cast as follows, to wit:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
Harry G. Haskell, Jr. 66,683
Harris B. McDowell, Jr. 59,960
KENT COUNTY
Harry G. Haskell, Jr. 9,469
Harris B. McDowell, Jr. 10,005
SUSSEX COUNTY
Harry G. Haskell, Jr. 15,386
Harris B. McDowell, Jr. 14,679
AND WHEREAS, The said returns of the election for the choice of a Representative of and for the said State in the 85th 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
Harry G. Haskell, Jr. 91,538
Whole number of votes for
Harris B. McDowell, Jr. 84,644
NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Harry G. Haskell, 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-fifth Congress of the United States.
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