Test Oaths
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 5: Unregistered Documents
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content: 1866–69
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M798, Subseries 5.4
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content: Archival materials
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content: Filmed after the letters relating to appointments is a series of test oaths, 1866–69, which are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname of individual who signed the oath. According to an act of Congress approved 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.