BY authority Of the State Of Dela~are.
SAMUEL PAINTER, Governor of the said Sta'e, To
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SAMUEL PAINTER, Governor OF the said STATE, To all


persons whom these presents shall come


WHEREAS, the first Tuesday OF October, being The
third day of that nnth, in the year Of our Lord tou
sand eight huntlt twen y-sX, Elections TO; the choice
of Represenlatve Of and for the said ale, til
Congress of the United States, held according to the
Laws of the said State, the several tereo And
whereas returns of The said Elections in due made
out signed and executed have been delivered to me,
cordin the Laws of the said State, by tie respective
seras of said countless anti having examined said returns,
and enumerated and asceraned The number OF votes tor
each and every candidate person voted Tor as such Re-
preventative, have found LOUIS Mel ANE, Esquire TO
be person highest in vote and therefore duly elected
Therefore, /, the said SAMUEL PAyNrkR, Governor as
aforesaid do according TO the form o an Act OF the Gen
eral Assembly of SAID State in such case made and
v,led declare tile SAID LOUIS McLANE the person high
est in vote at the elections aforesaid and therefore duly
elected the Representative Of and fer The said State If
Delaware in The twentieth Congress of the United aes


GIvEN under my Hand and the Great Seal Of the
u s9&Ss said State, at Dover the twelfth day Of
eSTSS October in the year Of our Lord ,i,oti-
S@wSs sand eight hundred twenty-sx, and Of


The Independence If the said state the


Ffiy.hist. SAMUEL PAYNIE Err.


by the Governor:


65--3s H. NJ. RinGaLr, Secretary Of State.