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CHARLES POLK Governor of the said State
TO all persons to whom these presents shall come.
WHEREAS, on the first Tuesday of October,
being the second day of that month, in the year OF
our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twen-
sy-seven, Elections for choice of Representative
of and for the said State, in the twentieth Congress
of the United States, in lieu of the Honorable Louis
NJ 'Lane and to supply the vacancy in the Represen
tation OF this State, occasioned by his election to,
and acceptance OF, the Office of Senator for this
State in the Senate OF the United States for the term
OF SIX years from the fourth day Of March last past,
were held according the laws of said State in the
several Counties thereof, in obedience to writs of
election for that purpose issued: And whereas,
oreturns for the said elections in due manner made
mu., signed and executed, have been delivered to
the, according to the laws of the said State by the
respective Sherifs Of the said Countess and having
examined said returns, and enumerated and ascer
tanned the number of votes, for each and every
didate or person voted for as such Representative
have found kensey Johns, Junior, Esquire, to be
the person highest in vote and therefore duly cleo
ted the Representative Of and for the said State in
lieu OF the Honorable Louis NJ 'Lane and TO supply
the vacancy in the Representation of this State for
the twentieth Congress, in the House OF Repre-
sentatives of the United States.


!, the said Charles Polk Governor aforesaid, do
therefore, according to the form of an act Of the
General Assembly OF the said State, in such case
made and provided, declare the said Kensey Johns,
Junior, the person highest in vote at the election
aforesaid, and therefore duly elected the Represen-
tave of and for the said State of Delaware, to sup
ply the vacancy aforesaid in the Twentieth Congress
of the United States.


Given under my hand and the Great


Seal Seal Of the State, at Dover this eleventh


S,..$ day of October, in the year of our Lord
tnrlf
and of the independence of the said State the Fifty
second


CHARLES POLK


By the Cove rnor.


JOHv W. CLAYTON, Secretary of Stat e.


Oct. 10. 51-4t