Chapter LIII. *prescribing an Oath of Office to be taken by Persons who participated in the late Rebellion, but who are not disqualified from holding Office by the fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States*
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CHAP. LIII.— An Act *prescribing an Oath of Office to be taken by Persons who participated in the late Rebellion, but who are not disqualified from holding Office by the fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States*. Feb. 15, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Oath of office to be taken by certain persons.Vol. xv. p. 709. That when any person, who is not rendered ineligible to office by the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, shall be elected or appointed to any office of honor or trust under the government of the United States, and shall not be able on account of his participation in the late rebellion to413FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 53, 54. 1871. take the oath prescribed in the act of Congress approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, said person shall, in lieu of said oath,1862, ch. 128. Vol. xii. p. 502.1868, ch. 139. Vol. xv. p. 85. before entering upon the duties of said office, take and subscribe the oath prescribed in an act of Congress entitled “An act prescribing an oath of office to be taken by persons from whom legal disabilities shall have been removed,” approved July eleven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
J. G. BLAINE, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.* Received by the President February 3, 1871. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]