46 MILITIA. [ART. 63.

17. All officers of the militia, commissioned and non-commis-
sioned, shall take in such manner as the Governor may direct,
the following oath, or affirmation before they shall receive their
commission or be qualified to act: I do swear, or affirm, that I
have not borne arms against the United States, nor given any
aid or countenance, sympathy or support to the men now in
arms against the United States, calling themselves the Confede-
rated States of America, and that I will bear true faith and alle-
giance to the United States, and support the constitution, laws
and government of the United States, any law, or ordinance of
any State to the contrary notwithstanding; that I will to the
best of my ability defend the Union of the United States and
never allow the separation of the same or the destruction of the
government of the United States under any circumstances if in
my power to prevent it, so help me God.

In force from March 10, 1864, and expires March 1, 1866.
Chapter 15 enacts as follows:

18. The Governor is hereby authorized to offer and pay to
every person except negro slaves, as hereinafter provided, who
shall enlist before the first day of March, eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, to serve for three years, unless sooner discharged, as
part of the quota of this State, in the armies of the United
States, in any of the regiments or batteries raised or to be raised
and organized or mustered into the service of the United States,
the sum of three hundred dollars in addition to any bounty
allowed or paid by the government of the United State, whereof
the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars shall be paid at the
time when such person is mustered into the service of the Uni-
ted States, twenty dollars at the end of each month of service
for the five months immediately succeeding such mustering into
the service of the United States, and fifty dollars at the expira-
tion of his term of service, or when such person is honorably
discharged from service.

19. To every person who shall have already been in service
six months, and shall re-enlist before the first day of March
next, to serve as aforesaid, a State bounty of three hundred and