CHAPTER 888
STATE
OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENT
DOVER
PROCLAMATION
Whereas,
in
the year
1621, Pilgrim settlers in New
England
paused in
their struggle
for
survival
in
a
new land to
give thanks
to Almighty God for
the
blessings
bestowed
upon
them;
and
Whereas, it
ha
s
been a
hallowed American
tradition
to con
tinue this observance each year
and
to set aside
a day for
thoughtful gratitude
for
the material
benefits and for the liberties
which
the inhabitants
of
our great
Country
enjoy; and
Whereas,
it is especially appropriate that
we
be
grateful
for those blessings
which we
now enjoy
and
that we join in prayerful hope that
similar
blessings may one day be the lot of all mankind in
a world
free
from
privation and the threat of war;
and
Whereas,
by a
joint resolution
of the Congress of the United
States and by Paragraph
501,
Chapter
5, Title 1 of the Delaware Code,
the fourth Thursday
of
each
November has been proclaimed Thanksgiving
Day and is to
be observed
as
a legal holiday;
NOW,
THEREFORE,
I, Russell W. Peterson, do hereby proclaim
Thursday,
November 26, 1970, as
THANKSGIVING DAY
in Delaware
and
urge
residents
of the First State,
with their
families
and friends, to join
in heartfelt Thanksgiving
for
our
Nation's plenty and for
our
blessings
of freedom and justice.
FURTHER,
I request that
all
citizens of Delaware display
the
National
and State
flags, and join in praying
for
the attainment
of a
peaceful
world in which
brotherhood, justice and happi
ness flourish.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Russell W. Peterson,
Governor
of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed at Dover this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
seventy,
and of the Independence
of
the United States of America, the one hundred and ninety-fifth.
(GREAT SEAL)
RUSSELL W. PETERSON, Governor
Atte
st:
EUGENE
BUNTING, Secretary of State