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This Oath to be administered to every civilian employed, under pay, for duty in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; and should be taken before a commissioned officer of the Bureau.

OATH.

I, ........................................
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 thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, in 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 freely, 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.

C.C. Bartlett

Sworn to and subscribed before me, at Selma Alabama this 10th day of August 1866.
Wm O. Smith
U.S Commissioner