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[PUBLIC—No. 64.]

AN ACT
Prescribing an oath of office to be taken by persons from whom legal disabilities shall have been removed. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever a person who has participated in the late rebellion, and from whom all legal disabilities arising therefrom have been removed by act of Congress by a vote of two-thirds of each house, has been or shall be elected or appointed to any office or place of trust in or under the government of the United States, he shall, before entering upon the duties thereof, instead of the oath prescribed by the act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that 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.
Approved, July 11, 1868. 

Sworn to before me by E.H. Smith M.D. Augt 17 1868 A.T. Peebles J.P. Richmond Aug't 17th 1868
E.H. Smith M.D. personally appeared before me A.T. Peebles J.P for the City of Richmond and made oath to the above writing
A.T. Peebles J.P.

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