Chapter CIII. *defining additional Causes of Challenge and prescribing an additional Oath for Grand and Petit Jurors in the United States Courts.* June 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Additional causes of challenge of gran
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Chap. CIII.— An Act *defining additional Causes of Challenge and prescribing an additional Oath for Grand and Petit Jurors in the United States Courts.* June 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Additional causes of challenge of grand and petit jurors in the United States courts. That, in addition to the existing causes of disqualification and challenge of grand and petit jurors in the courts of the United Slates, the following are hereby declared and established, namely; without duress and coercion to have taken up arms, or to have joined any insurrection and rebellion, against the United States; to have adhered to any rebellion, giving it aid and comfort; to have given, directly or indirectly, any assistance in money, arms, horses, clothes, or any thing whatever, to or for the use or benefit of any person or persons whom the person giving such assistance knew to have joined, or to be about to join, any insurrection or rebellion, or to have resisted, or to be about to resist with force of arms, the execution of the laws of the United States, or whom he had good ground to believe had joined, or was about to join, any insurrection or rebellion, or had resisted, or was about to resist, with force of arms, the execution of the laws of the United States, and to have counselled and advised any person or persons to join any insurrection and rebellion, or to resist with force of arms the laws of the United States.
Sec. 2. Additional oath for grand and petit jurors.*And be it further enacted*, That at each and every term of any court of the United States, the district attorney, or other person acting for and on behalf of the United States in said court, may move, and the court in their discretion may require the clerk to tender to each and every person who may be summoned to serve as a grand or petit juror or venireman or talesman in said court, the following oath or affirmation, viz: “You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that you will support the Constitution of the United States of America; that you have not, without duress and constraint, taken up arms, or joined any insurrection or rebellion against the United States; that you have not adhered to any insurrection or rebellion, giving it aid and comfort; that you have not, directly or indirectly, given any assistance in money, or any other thing, to any person or persons whom you knew, or had good ground to believe, had joined, or was about to join, said insurrection and rebellion, or had resisted, or was about to resist, with force of arms, the execution of the laws of the United States; and that you have not counselled oi advised any person or persons to join any rebellion against, or to resist Persons declining to take such oath shall be discharged.with force of arms, the laws of the United States.
” Any person or persons declining to take said oath shall be discharged by the court from serving on the grand or petit jury, or venire, to which he may have been summoned. THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 104, 105, 108–110. 1862. 431 Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That each and every person whoSwearing falsely in taking the oath, to be perjury. shall take the oath herein prescribed, and who shall swear falsely to any matter of fact embraced by it, shall be held to have committed the crime of perjury, and shall be subject to the pains and penalties declared against that crime.
Approved, June 17, 1862.