Chapter LXII. to remove political Disabilities from Roderick R
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CHAP. LXII.— An Act to remove political Disabilities from Roderick R. Butler, of Tennessee.June 19, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all legal and political disabilitiesRoderick R. Butler relieved of political disabilities. imposed by the United States upon Roderick R. Butler, of Tennessee, in consequence of participation in the recent rebellion be, and the same are hereby, removed. And the said Butler, on entering upon the discharge of the duties of any office to which he has been or may be elected or appointed, instead of the oath prescribed by the act of July1862, ch. 128.Vol. xii. p. 502.Oath. two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall take and subscribe the following oath:
I, Roderick R. Butler, 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 faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God. Approved, June 19, 1868.