Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-07-17
PCBLIC-No. So.
AN ACT defining additional causes of
challenge and prescribing an addi.
tional oath for grand and petit Jurors
GPUBLIC-No. SS.

Challenge ana prescribing an adOi'
tional oath for grand and petit Jurors
in the United States courts.
Be IL enacted by tie Senate and House Of Rcpre-
,e,,tatires Of He tpisi States Of Americd an Cdn-
gress assembled, That, in addition to the exist.
ing causes of disqualification and
challenge Of grand and petit jurors
in the courts of the United States,
the following are hereby declared and
established, namely, without duress
and coercion to have taken up arms,
or to have joined any insurrcction and
rebellion, against the United States
to have adhered to any rebellion, Civ.
| ing it aid and comfort to have given.
directly or indirectly, any assistanc"
in money, arms, horses, clothes, ur
any thing whatever, to or for the u.s.
or benefit of any person or person.
whom the person giving such assis
ance knew to have joined, or to H.,
about to join, any insurrection or /.
| belliGn. or to have resisted, or to t,
about to resi- st with force of arms, T..
execution of the laws of the Unite
States, or whom he had good grouni
to believe had joined, or was aboL
to join, any insurrection or rebellion
or had resisted, or was about TO 7
| slst with force of arms, the exec
ton of the laws of the Unit,I
States, and to have counseled and a.,
vlscd any person or persons TO ju,n
any insurrection and rebellion, or l.
resist with force of arms the laws Z,
the United States.
SEc. 2. and Be u further enacted, Thaf
at each and every term of any court
of the United States, the district al.
torney, or other person acting for an't
on behalf of the United States in saii
court, may move, and the court III
their discretion may require the clcri%
to tender to each and every person
who may be summoned to serve as .
grand or petit juror or venireman or
talesman in said court, the followih.
oath or affirmation, viz You do SOL
emnly swear, Cor affirm, as the case
may be- that you will support the
Constitution of the United States Of
America that you have not, without
| duress and constraint taken up arms,
or joined any insurrection or rebel
lion against the United States that
you have not adhered to any insur-
rection or rebellion, giving it aid and
comfort that you have not, directly
or indirectly or Indirectly, given any
assistance in money, or any other
thing, to any person or persons whom
you knew, or had good ground to be-
lieve, had joined or was about to join,
said insurrection and rebellion, or had
resisted, or was about 10 resist, will:
force of arms, the execution of the
laws of the United States and that
you have not counselled or advised
any person or persons to join any
rebellion against, or to resist with
force of arms, the laws of the United
States.' Any person or persons de-
clining to take said oath shall be dis
charged by the eourt from serving OH
the grand or petit jury, or venire, to
which he may have been summoned
SEC. 3. And belt further enacted, That
each and every person who shall take
the oath herein prescribed, and who
shall swear falsely to any matterof fact
embraced by it, shall be held to have
committed the crime of perjury, and
shall be suhjcct to the pains and pen.
alties declared against that crime.
Approved, June II, 1862.