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I, Franklin G. Smith in the county of Maury and State of Tennessee do solemnly swear in the presence of Almighty God that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the mission of states thereunder and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion, with reference to the emancipation of slaves
So help me God
(signed) Franklin G. Smith.

Subscribed and sworn to before me as Brigadier General of United States Volunteers, this Fourteenth day of June 1865.
(signed) Chs. C. Doolittle
Brig Gen U.S.V.

A true copy
L. M. Hosea
Capt 16th Infantry USA