CHAPTER 313 - STATE OF DELAWARE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT PROCLAMATION
C. D. BUCK, 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 thirty-four 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 an Auditor of Accounts 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 Auditor of Accounts were cast as follows, to wit:
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NEW CASTLE COUNTY
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Scott W. Rees
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28,566
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James Henry Hazel
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33,994
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Morris Goodlevege
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383
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William V. P. Davidatis
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59
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KENT COUNTY
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Scott W. Rees
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7,732
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James Henry Hazel
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6,546
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Morris Goodlevege
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14
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SUSSEX COUNTY
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Scott W. Rees
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9,479
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James Henry Hazel
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11,848
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Morris Goodlevege
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38
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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 Auditor of Accounts the result appears as follows, to wit:
Whole number of votes for Scott W. Rees 45,777
Whole number of votes for James Henry Hazel 52,388
Whole number of votes for Morris Goodlevege 435
Whole number of votes for William V. P. Davidatis 59
NOW, THEREFORE, I, C. D. Buck, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that James Henry Hazel has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the Auditor of Accounts of and for the State of Delaware.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and fifty-ninth.
(Great Seal)
By the Governor:
C. D. BUCK.
CHARLES H. GRANTLAND, Secretary of State.