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Submitted by: burtwyat@ctesc.net (Frederica Wyatt) – August 6, 2000
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Oath of Allegiance, Britton C. Vest
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF TEXAS.
Original No. 113
Register’s Office
Williamson County
OATH
“I, Britton C. Vest do solemnly swear, or affirm, in the presence of Almighty God that I am a citizen of the State of Texas, that I have resided in said State-for Twelve months next preceding this day, and now reside in the County of Williamson or the parish….in said State, as the case may be; that I am twenty-one years old; that I have not been disfranchised for participation in any rebellion or civil war against the United States, nor for felony committed against the laws of any of the United States; that I have never been a member of any State Legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office in any State, and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, and given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I have never taken an oath as a member of Congress of the United States, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, and afterwards engaged in insurrection and rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I will faithfully support the Constitution and obey the laws of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, encourage others so to do. So help me God.”
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Attest Chas. N. Talbot
Britton x Vest
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I do hereby certify that on this Eighteenth day of July 1867 appeared before me Britton C. Vest who subscribed to the foregoing oath.
R. E. Talbot
Register.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF TEXAS
Original No. 113
REGISTER’S OFFICE
Williamson County.
This Eighteenth day of July
I, R. E. Talbot Register of the Names and Residence of qualified Electors of Williamson County for the 8th District duly commissioned and sworn, do hereby certify that B. C. Vest was this day duly registered as a qualified Elector of said County, on the Original Registry of this District, under No. 113 as a native born citizen of the United States and residing in the County of Williamson State of Texas
Witness my hand, the day and date
above mentioned.
R. E. Talbot
Register
(written across side of page, “voted Nov 28th ’70 at Georgetown”)
