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of its provisions of amnesty; and not being included within any single one of the Exceptions contained in said Proclamation of May 29, A.D. 1865; and having bona fide loyally kept the oath of allegiance administered to him in May AD 1865; and fully intending never to violate, either in letter or in spirit, the said oath, or the oath of Amnesty this day administered to him under the Proclamation of President Johnson; all which facts he made oath were strictly & absolutely true, without evasion or equivocation of any kind whatever. Given under my hand this 20th day of September AD. 1865, in the City of Norfolk and State of Virginia, and in evidence thereof I have also hereunto affixed my seal