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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
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TEST OATH.

I, Saml S Gardner 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 pretending 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. 
Saml S Gardner 

Sworn to and subscribed before me, at Greenville Alabama this 19th day of December 1867

James D. Porter
Notary Public

(Required by Act of Congress as a preliminary to holding office under the United States.)