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Test Oath (Prescribed by the United) (II)

an oath prescribed by the United States Congress July 2, 1862, to be taken by persons in the former Confederate States appointed to office under the National government. The text was as follows: "I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) 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, counteencouragement 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 pretended authority in TESTUDINIDE hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended within the United States, hostile or inimical government, authority, power, or constitution 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 faith- I am about to enter, so help me God." fully discharge the duties of the office on which made by dipping unsized paper into an