 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...taken, prescribed by the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862. That act is in the following worde : '•That hereafter every person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit uuder the Government of UM Uniteil States, either in tho civil, military, or naval department of tho... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 744 pages
...(July 2, 1862), Congress, by " an act to prescribe an oath of office/' and for other purposes, enacted that " hereafter every person elected or appointed...shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation : I, AB, do solemnly swear or affirm that I have... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1902 - 768 pages
...question, other than those to which you refer. The Revised Statutes, section 1756, provides that — "Every person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit, either in the civil, military, or naval service, excepting the President and the persons embraced bv... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...July, 1862, Congress, by " an act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," enacted that " hereafter every person elected or appointed...shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation : I, AB, do solemnly swear or affirm that I have... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 566 pages
...disqualified to hold any office under the United States " l ; and by another Act it has provided, that every person, elected or appointed to any office of...profit under the Government of the United States, shall, before entering upon its duties, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that he has " never... | |
 | Illinois - Law - 1874 - 1270 pages
...considered lucrative offices) shall have a seat in the general assembly; nor shall any person, holding id, from the lands of the United States most contiguous to the tier of se hold any office of honor or profit under the authority of this state. § 30. Every person who shall... | |
 | Alexander Harris - United States - 1876 - 530 pages
...duty required. Pretended dread of future turbulence induced the revolutionary Congress to exact of every person elected or appointed to any office of...or profit under the Government of the United States an oath of office, to which no conscientious Southern resistant of the abolition tyranny would bo able... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Constitutional law - 1877 - 1054 pages
...considered lucrative offices — shall have a seat in the general assembly; nor shall any person holding !< < bq B F F J V _ hold any office of honor or profit under the authority of this State. SEC. 30. Every person who shall... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 974 pages
...of July, 1862, Congress, by "an act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," enacted that " hereafter every person elected or appointed...shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: I, AB, do solemnly swear or affirm that 1 have... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 1032 pages
...of July, 1882, Congress, by "an act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," enacted that " hereafter every person elected or appointed...excepting the President of the United States, shall, Wore entering upon the duties of such office, take and subscribe the i-rilowing oath or affirmation:... | |
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That hereafter every person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the Government of the United States... 
