Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-09-16


connected with, any order. Society OF or.
ganization, inimical to the Government It
the United States, or to the Government of
this State; or has ever bcCn engaged in que
rilla warfare againEt loyal Inhabitants ul
| the United States, or in that description nt
marauding commonly known MS "bus l-
whacking;' or has ever knowingly and " :
/ lingly harborcd, aided or tountcnOnccd y
person so engaged or has ever come inlo
or left this State for the purposcor avoiding
enrolment for draft into the military ser
vice of the United States or has ever wi Be
n view to avoid enrolment in the Militia Hl
this State or to escape the pcrIol nance 'I
duty therein, or for any other purpose,
enrolled himself or authorized himself to
be enrolled, by or Before any oiEcer, as. d DE-
loyal or as n Southern sympnthizer; or in
any other terms Indicating his disaiIcction
to the Government of the United States in
its contest with rebellion, or his sympatliy
with those cugegcd in such rebollioni or
having ever voted at any election by ilg
people of this State, or in any other Of tl.a
United States, or in any Of their TcrIitu-
Iics, or under the United States, shall thcl ,
after have sought or received. under T.
claim of alicnage, the protection of an
foreign government, through any consul
or other officer thereof, in order TO secure
exemption from military duty in the mliti,
of this State or in the army Of tho United
States; nor shall any such person be capn
bic of holding in this State any office O.
honor, trust or profit under its authority
or of being an officer, councilman, director
trustee, or other manager Of any corpora
tion, public or private, now existing o.
hereafter established by its authority; or c {
acting as n professor or teacher in any edu-
cational institution, or in any other com
mon or other school; or of holding any rca
estate or other property in trust for the use
of any church, religious society or congre-
CATION. But the foregoing provisions il.
relation to acts done against tho United
States shall not apply to any person not
citizen thereof who shall have committed
such acts while in the service of some for
egn country at war with the United States
and the oath OF loyalty hereinafter pre-
scribcd, when taken by any such person
shall be considered as taken in such sense
SEC. 4. The General Assembly shall i'm.
mediately provide by law for complete
and uniform registration, by election dis
tricts, of the names of qualified voters il
this State; which registration shall he evi-
dencc of the qualification of all registered
voters to vote at any election thereafter
held; but no person shall be excluded from
voting at any election on account of moi
being registered until the General Assem-
bly, shall have passed an act ofregistratior
and the same shall have been carried into
effect; after which no person shall vote un.
less his name shall have been regis tered a
l,o !, tln, Il n, ~
and the fact OF such registration shall be
no otherwise shown than by the register
or an authentic copy thereof, certified to
the judges of election by the registering
officer or officers, or other constituted au-
thority a new registration shall be mado
within sixty days next preceding the tenth
day prior to every biennial general election;
and after it shall have been made no per-
son shall establish his right to vote by tho
fact of his name appearing on any previous
register
OATH OF OFFICE.
|, do soemnly swear that | nm
we'll acquainted with the terms of the third
section of the second article of the Consti-
tuition Of the State of Missouri, adopted in
the year eighteen hundred and sixty-fve,
and have carefully considered the same;
that | have never, directly or indirectly,
done any of the acts in said section speci-
fed; that | have always been truly and 10y
ally on the side of the United States against
all enemies thereof, foreign and domestic;
that | will bear true faith and allegiance
to the United States, and W ill support the
Constitution and laws thereof as the su-
prcmc law of the land, any law or ordinance
of any Slate TO The COn.raTy nOtWlllstand-
ing; that will, TO the best of my ability,
protect AMI defend the Union of the United
States, and not allow the same to be broken
up and dissolved, or the Government there
Of to be destroyed or ovcrthrown, under
any circumstances, if in my power to pre-
vent it; and | will support the Constitution
of the State of Missouri; and that l make
this oath without any mental reservation
or evasion, and hold it to be binding on
me.