Chapter 46.
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CHAP. 46.— An act amending the Revised Statutes of the United States in respect of official oaths, and for other purposes.May 13, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,R. S. 1218, 215. Amended. That section twelve hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: 22 " “Sec. 1218. Officers, etc., disqualified for appointments Army or Navy.
No person who held a commission in the Army or Navy of the United States at the beginning of the late rebellion, and afterward served in any capacity in the military, naval, or civil service of the so-called Confederate States, or of either of the States in insurrection during the late rebellion, shall be appointed to any position in the Army or Navy of the United States.” " Sec. 2. R. S. 1756, 312. Repealed. That section seventeen hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and hereafter the oath Official oaths.to be taken by any person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit either in the civil, military, or naval service, except the President of the United States, shall be as prescribed in section seventeen hundred and fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes.
But this repeal shall not affect the oaths prescribed by existing statutes in relation to the performance of duties in special or particular subordinate offices and employments. Sec. 3. Not to affect existing rights, etc. That the provisions of this act shall in no manner affect any right, duty, claim, obligation, or penalty now existing or already incurred; and all and every such right, duty, claim, obligation, and penalty shall be heard, tried, and determined, and effect shall be given thereto, in the same manner as if this act bad not been passed.
Sec. 4. R. S. 820, 152. R. S. 821, 153. Repealed. That section eight hundred and twenty of the Revised Statutes, imposing certain disqualifications on grand and petit jurors in the courts of the United States, and section eight hundred and twenty one of the Revised Statutes, prescribing an oath for grand and petit jurors in the courts of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, May 13, 1884.