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This Oath to be administered to every private Physician and Clerk employed, under contract, for duty in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

OATH.

I, Henry Richardson, 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 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 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.

Henry Richardson

Sworn to and subscribed before me, at City of Richmond Va on this 24 day of February, 1868

Saml M. Page N.P.

[[stamp]] INTER REVENUE 5 [[/stamp]]

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