CHAPTER 499
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
ELBERT N. CARVEL
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 sixty-two, 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:
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
Ernest E. Killen 54,010
Ralph D. Kellam 53,085
KENT COUNTY
Ernest E. Killen 10,247
Ralph D. Kellam 7,633
SUSSEX COUNTY
Ernest E. Killen 14,711
Ralph D. Kellam 12,262
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
Ernest E. Killen 78,968
Whole number of votes for
Ralph D. Kellam 72,980
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elbert N. Carve], Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that Ernest E. Killen 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 26th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two and of the Independence of the said State the one hundred and eighty-seventh.
(GREAT SEAL)
ELBERT N. CARVEL
By the Governor:
ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State