 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1874 - 440 pages
...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...subscribed before me this day of . APPOINTMENT OF SECRETARY. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 14, 1871. To JC BANCROFT DAVIS, Esq., Assistant... | |
 | Anson Willis - United States - 1872 - 522 pages
...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 mo God." So strong and comprehensive an oath as this was never before required from any officer... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 744 pages
...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/' On the 24th of January, 1865, the following supplementary act was passed : " No person... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1873 - 544 pages
...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." The Act then provides : — of the Court, House of Congress, or Department to which the... | |
 | J. H. Hawes - Public lands - 1873 - 234 pages
...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. PETER TRAVERSE, [LS] Deputy Surveyor. Sworn and subscribed to before me, this (twenty... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 416 pages
...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...help me GOD. Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of , AD 188—. 2. WEEKLY REPORT. Report of , special agent OLO,for week commencing the day of... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1874 - 564 pages
...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." o»th. where ,ii«- 899. - SEC. 1757. Whenever any person who is not renceMoral 1 ""... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...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." On the 24th of January, 1865, Congress passed a supplementary act as follows : " No person... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - 1874 - 564 pages
...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 ;" which said oath TO ^preserved so taken and signed shall be preserved among the files... | |
 | Robert Bruce Warden - Governors - 1874 - 872 pages
...me God !' with great earnestness. The conclusion of the oath struck me. 'I will faithfully perform the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.' There was no such clause as is commonly added, 'to the best of my ability.'" Under the same date we... | |
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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,... 
