Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 385 - STATE OF DELAWARE - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT PROCLAMATION

WALTER W. BACON, 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 7th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-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 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

Jesse S. Cooper 44,760

John S. Isaacs 42,341

George L. Biddle 267

KENT COUNTY

Jesse S. Cooper 7,697

John S. Isaacs 7,377

George L. Biddle 37

SUSSEX COUNTY

Jesse S. Cooper 10,930

John S. Isaacs 11,980

George L. Biddle 60

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

Jesse S. Cooper 63,387

Whole number of votes for

John S. Isaacs 61,698

Whole number of votes for

George L. Biddle 364

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Walter W. Bacon, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Jesse S. Cooper 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 seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-four and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and sixty-ninth.

(GREAT SEAL)

By the Governor:

WALTER W. BACON

WILLIAM J. STOREY, Secretary of State.