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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TEST OATH. I, J.B. Healy Agt. Bureau R.F. & A.L. 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. J.B. Healy Agt. B.R.F. & A.L. SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me at, Girard Alabama this 24" day of December 1867. U.L. Martin Justice of the Peace (Required by Act of Congress as a preliminary to holding office under the United States.)