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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TEST OATH

I, C W Pierce
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 pretend 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 W Pierce

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me, at Demopolis Marengo Co Ala
this First day of April   1868

W. W. Dugger
Notary Public
([[stamp]] 1 DOLLAR STATE OF ALABAMA stamp [[/stamp]]

(Re[[quired by Act of Con]]gress as a preliminary to holding office under the United States.)

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