CHAPTER 547
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, the United States Secret Service having been organized on July 5, 1865 as a division of the United States Treasury Department, and since that time has protected the integrity of the currency and securities of the United States by suppressing counterfeiting and forgery; and
WHEREAS, in their capacity as the only general investigative agency of the United States, the United States Secret Service conducted investigations of the Western Land Frauds, The Tea Pot Dome Scandal and espionage and sabotage activities in the Spanish-American and World War I; and
WHEREAS, in 1901 the United States Secret Service was assigned the duty of the protection of the President of the United States, which has since been extended to include the members of the President's family, and the person of the Vice President of the United States; and
WHEREAS, in their efforts to carry out the directives assigned them by the Congress of the United States and the United States Treasury Department, they have exemplified their aim of perfection in the law-enforcement profession:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Charles L. Terry, Jr., Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby proclaim the week of July 5 -11, 1965 as
UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE WEEK
in Delaware, and I urge all citizens of the State to join with me in honoring the men and women of the United States Secret Service on this their 100th Anniversary.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Charles L. Terry, Jr., 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
(GREAT SEAL) 21st day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and eighty-ninth.
CHARLES L. TERRY, JR., Governor Attest:
ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State