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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. [[logo]] TEST OATH. I, W. E. Connelly, 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, count nance, 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 will and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God. W. E. Connelly SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me, at Eufaula Barbour County Ala- this 29th day of August 1867 B.B. Fields, Justice of the Peace (Required by Act of Congress as a preliminary to holding office under the United States.)