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Page 13 - council of any city or town shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation, provided the disabilities therein contained may be, individually removed by a three-fifths vote of the general assembly : ' I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
Page 80 - to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution, within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support
Page 3 - State, or to amend or revise this constitution in any manner, and mayor and council of any city or town, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or
Page 3 - against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that 1 have voluntarily given no aid. countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise, the functions of any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States ; that I
Page 8 - attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever. under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile
Page 135 - [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATK.—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.]
Page 80 - I, А. В , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since 1 have been a citizen thereof: that I have voluntarily given no aid. countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise, the functions of any
Page 43 - I charge those engaged in them, before they are irretrievably and hopelessly involved, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, under the pains and penalties of the law ; and whatever in other respects may be the conclusions of those who meet to deliberate upon the present critical and distracted state of
Page 137 - Secretary of State. I certify that the document hereunto annexed is a true copy from the records in this department. In testimony whereof, I, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this fifteenth day of May, AD
Page 80 - have been a citizen thereof: that I have voluntarily given no aid. countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise, the functions of any