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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
TEST OATH.

I, John C. Hendrix, 
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, not 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.

John C. Hendrix

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me, at Montgomery Alabama this 6th day of August 1867

S.C.Greene
Capt 24th U.S.I. Bvt Maj.
U.S.V. and A.A.A.G.

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