CHAPTER 451
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 7th day of November, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty 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
George Daniel Enterline, Sr. 47,890
James Woodrow Wilson Baker 38,003
KENT COUNTY
George Daniel Enterfine, Sr. 8,264
James Woodrow Wilson Baker 8,620
SUSSEX COUNTY
George Daniel Enterline, Sr. 12,702
James Woodrow Wilson Baker 13,031
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 George Daniel Enterline, Sr. 68,856
Whole number of votes for James Woodrow Wilson Baker 59,654
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elbert N. Carvel, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby declare that George Daniel Enterline, Sr., 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 Fourteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty and of the Independence of the said State the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth.
(GREAT SEAL)
By the Governor:
ELBERT N. CARVEL
HARRIS B. McDOWELL, Jr., Secretary of State