Delaware General Assembly

CHARLES L. TERRY, JR.

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 8th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Sixty-six 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 Insurance Commissioner 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 the said counties respectively for such Insurance Commissioner were cast as follows, to wit:

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 Insurance Commissioner the result appears as follows, to wit:

Whole number of votes for

Robert A. Short 98,190

Whole number of votes for

Howard S. Abbott 64,097

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Charles L. Terry, Jr., Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Robert A. Short has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid, and therefore has been and is duly and legally elected the Insurance Commissioner of and for the State of Delaware.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND and the Great Seal of the said State, at Dover, the 18th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred

(GREAT SEAL) and sixty-six and of the Independence of the
said State the one hundred and ninety-first.

CHARLES L. TERRY, JR.

By the Governor:

ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State