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United States of America
Department of State
To all to whom this presents shall come greeting; I, certify that Robert Hall of the County of Shelby State of Alabama has deposited in this department his original oath, bearing date the twentieth day of October 1865 being in the form prescribed by the Presidents proclamation of May 29th 1865. In Testimony, whereof I, William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the department of the State to be affixed;
Done at the City of Washington this first day of October A.D. 1865 and of the Independence of the United States of America the Nineteith
William H. Seward