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OATH.

I, H. A. Cooper, Clerk Bureau R. F and A. L. Miss
do solemnly swear that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility there to; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the func-tions of any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, on hostility to the United States ; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear, or affirm, that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I 
will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation free-ly, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion ; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: 
So help me God. 

H. A. Cooper
Sworn to and subscribed before me, at Vicksburg. Miss
this 25th day of April 1868 
S. C. Greene
Capt 24 Inf Br Miss USA
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