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        <p>Department of States<lb />Jep el NAS en fh OY<lb />D<lb /><lb />I, Thad Eure, Secretary of State of the State<lb />of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the State<lb />Board of Blections met on Tuesday, the 4th day of<lb />June, A. D., 1946, in accordance with Chapter 163<lb />of the General Statutes of North Carolina, at which<lb />time the Board did open, canvass and judicially<lb />determine the returns of the votes cast in the spe-<lb />cial election held on May 25, 1946, and certified<lb />to me that JANE PRATT was duly elected a member of<lb />the 79th Congress of the United States from the<lb />Eighth Congressional District of North Varolina, to<lb />fill the unexpired term of the late W. O. BURGIN.<lb />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand<lb />and affixed my official seal.<lb />DONE IN OFFICE at Raleigh, this the Sth day of<lb />June, 1946.<lb /><lb />le<lb />Aelia »<lb />Secretary of State<lb />WB,</p>
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