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United States of America
Department of State

"Copy"

To all to whom these these presents shall come, Greeting I, Certify that J.E. Prestridge, of the County of Dallas State of Alabama, has deposited in this Department his original Oath bearing date, the ninth day of October 1865, being in the form prescribed by the President Proclamation of May 29th 1865.

In testimony whereas I William H. Seward, Secretary of State of this United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. 

Done at the City of Washington, this twenty first day of October of AD. 1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Nineteenth.

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William H. Seward