Oaths of Office
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 7: Station Book, Oaths, and Rosters
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M826, Subseries 7.2
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content: Archival materials
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content: A small series of oaths of office, 1865–1868, contains oaths signed by employees of the Bureau in Mississippi. According to an act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 502), every person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the Government of the United States was required to take an oath of loyalty to the United States. The oaths are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname of the signee.