The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-10-17
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Persons Elected or Appointed
to Office, and to Declare Offices
Vacant, when the Persons Elect
| ed or Appointed are Ineligible,
and Providing how such Vacan-
cies shall be filled, and Prescrib-
ing a Penalty for Falsely TAX
ing the oath Required by this
Act, and also a Penalty for Re
fusing to give up the Books Pa
pers, Archives and Property of
such Offices to the Person Elect
ed or Appointed to fill the Va
cancies, and for Obstruction or
Resisting the Officer Appointed
to fill the Vacancy. 4o
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representa-
tives Of the State OF Louisiana in
General Assembly convened, That
before any person, elected or ap-
pointed to any office, State, parish
or municipal, in this State, shall
be commissioned by the Govern
or, with a view of testing the eli
| gibility of any such person to hold
the Office to which he has been
elected or appointed, shall take
and subscribe the oath or affirma-
ton prescribed in the third section
of this act.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
! ETC., That before any person who
has been elected or appointed to
any State, parish or municipal Of
flee in this State, which does not
require the issuance of a commits
sion by the Governor, shall be
| sworn into Office, or enter upon the
discharge of the duties of any such
/ office, with the view to ascertain
the eligibility of such persons to
hold Office, such person shall take
and subscribe the oath of affirma-
ton prescribed in the third section
of this act.
1. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted,
etc, That the oath required to be
taken by parties referred to in
section one and two of this act be
as follows: s'
I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or
affirm, as the case may be), that
I have not been convicted of trea-
son, perjury, forgery, bribery, OF
| other crime punishable in the peni
tentiary; that | did not hold office,
civil or military, for one year OF
more, under the organization styl
ed the Confederate States Of
| Americas" that | did not register
myself as an enemy Of the United
States; that I did not act as 9
leader of guerilla bands during the
late rebellion; that in the adyaca.
| cy of treason / did not write Of
publish newspaper articles, o.
preach sermons during the 1att
rebellion, and that / did not vote
for and sign an ordinance of seces
| sion in my State.
! If the person has relieved him
! self from the disability of holding
Office by voluntarily writing anf
signing a certificate setting fortf
that he acknowledges the late re
bellion to have been morally an(
!. politically wrong, and that he re
grets any aid and comfort he may
have given it, aud shall have filet
a certificate in the Office of tht
Secretary of State, and it shal
; have been published in the officia
t journal of the State, as required
by article ninety nine Of the Con
stitntion, such party, on proof Q
such fact, shall be relieved iron
taking the above oath.
But such person, elected or ap
/ pointed to office, claims his disa
G bilities have been removed by hi
9 having complied with the require
i ments of the proviso to ninety
ninth article of the Constitution
/ of 1868, he shall then be requires
!, to take the following oath:
> /, A. B., do solemnly swear 70
t affirm as the case may be), tia
Epriortothe1stday of January 1866
: Ididfavorthe execution ofthe law
of the United States, popularl
known as the reconstruction act
of Congress, and openly and ac
lively assisted the loyal men of th
State in their efforts to restol
Louisiana to her position in th
Union.
Ell And that when any person
e required to take either of Il
i Il above affidavits, to test his elie
/ bility to office, he must take ]
: addition the following oath:
! That / never engaged in any i
7 | surrection or rebellion against Il
United States, or gave aid al
= comfort to the enemies theret
i after having taken an oath as mel
haY of Con0reSS. or as an Oftic