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FIRST
Congress, Session I.
An Act to regulate the time and manner of
administering certain oaths.
Section 1. Be it
enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the oath or affirmation required by the
sixth article of the Constitution of the United States shall be administered in
the form following, to wit: "I, A. B., do solemnly swear, or affirm, (as
the case may be,) that I will support the Constitution of the United States."
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Sec. 4. And be
it further enacted, That all officers appointed, or hereafter to be
appointed, under the authority of the United States, shall, before they act in
their respective offices, take the same oath or affirmation, which shall be
administered by the person or persons who shall be authorized by law to
administer to such officers their respective oaths of office; and such officers
shall incur the same penalties, in case of failure, as shall be imposed by law
in case of failure in taking their respective oaths of office.
Approved, June 1, 1789. |