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the General Assembly passed by a vote of two-thirds
of all the members elected to each house; and it shall
be the duty of all officers of registration and judges of
election carefully to exclude from voting, or being
registered, all persons so as above disqualified; and
the judges of election at the first election held under
this constitution shall, and at any subsequent election
may, administer to any person offering to vote the fol-
lowing path or affirmation: "I do swear or affirm that I
am a citizen of the United States, that I have never
given any aid, countenance or support to those in
armed hostility to the United States, that I have
never expressed a desire for the triumph of said
enemies over the arms of the United States, and that
I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United
States and support the constitution and laws thereof
as the supreme law of the land, any law or ordinance
of any State to the contrary notwithstanding; that I
will in all respects demean myself as a loyal citizen of
the United States, and I make this oath or affirma-
tion without any reservation or evasion, and believe
it to be binding on me;" and any person declining to
take such oath shall not be allowed to vote, but the
taking of such oath shall not be deemed conclusive
evidence of the right of such person to vote; and any
person swearing or affirming falsely shall be liable
to penalties of perjury, and it shall be the duty of the
proper officers of registration to allow no person to be
registered until he shall have taken the oath or affir-
mation above set out, and it shall be the duty of the
judges of election in all their returns of the first elec-
tion held under this constitution to state in their said
returns that every person who has voted has taken
such oath or affirmation. But the provisions of this
section in relation to acts against the United States
shall not apply to any person not a citizen of the
United States who shall have committed such acts
while in the service of some foreign country at war
against the United States, and who has, since such
acts, been naturalized or may be naturalized, under the
laws of the United States, and the oath above set
forth shall be taken in the case of such persons in
such sense.
Sec. 7. Every person elected or appointed to any
office of trust or profit under this constitution, or un-
der the laws made pursuant thereto, before he shall
enter upon the duties of such office, shall take and
subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I, ————,
do swear, (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will,
to the best of my skill and judgment, diligently and
faithfully, without partiality or prejudice, execute
the office of ——————, according to the constitution
and laws of this State, and that since the fourth day
of July, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one,
I have not in any manner violated the provisions of
the present, or of the late constitution, in relation to
the bribery of voters, or preventing legal votes or
procuring illegal votes to be given, (and if a governor,
senator, member of the house of delegates, or judge),
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