Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 275

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 3rd day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-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 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 Treasurer were cast as follows, to wit:

NEW CASTLE COUNTY

John S. Isaacs 30,156

Peter S. Collins 24,991

KENT COUNTY

John S. Isaacs 6,198

Peter S. Collins 5,906

SUSSEX COUNTY

John S. Isaacs 8,664

Peter S. Collins 8,176

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

John S. Isaacs 45,018

Whole number of votes for

Peter S. Collins 39,073

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Walter W. Bacon, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that John S. Isaacs 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 tenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred

(GREAT SEAL) and 42 and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and sixty-seventh.

By the Governor:

WALTER W. BACON EARLE D. WILLEY, Secretary of State.