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1777 457 (1777)

handle is hein.ssl/ssct0291 and id is 1 raw text is: ~C7~A X AN 1)A~ ,Oath of Eidehty. 457 ACTS AND LAWS, MADE and paffed 'b'' thd G-cneral Court or Affembly. of the State of Corneicut, in New-Englazd, in A-. meriCa; holden at Hartbrd, in faid State, on the ,fecond Thurfday of May, Anno Domn. 1777, An Ad p-refcribinig and enjoining an Oath of Fi- delity to this State; W H E R E A S this State and the refl of the United States in America, are becone Free and Independent States, and have by the unanitnous Declaration of their Delegates, in the Contine;tal Coiigreft aflembld; publifhed to all the World fuch their Freedom and Independbnce., BE it e~at'ted by the Gov'ernor, Gounicil, and Reprintatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of th. fame, That all Members of the General Affembly, and 411 Officers Civil and Military and Freemen of this State, fhall take ihe following Oath, Vliz. You A. 13. dofrtear by the Naxe of the everivhng GOD, that yc1 will be true and faithful to the State of Conne ticut, as a free a.nd independent State, &nd in all Things do )'vur Duty as a good:and faithf.d Subjert of the faid State; In fupporting the Rights, Liberties, and 1Pri- vileges of the fame. So help you GOD. And be itftirther c'ac7ed Iy the At.,ority afortfazid, That when fid Oath fhall be admini tered to any of tle People called: Qu.aters, it fhall be by way of Affifrriation ; and that no Perfoa hall execute any Office, Civil or Military, or give their Vote or Suffrage for tihe fame, after the firft Day of Septienber ne.U, unlef& fuch Pcrfon oihall have firft taken faid Oath, if thereto required by proper Authority : And it lhall be the Duty of the Auth6ritk adniinifteyiig fuch Oat'h, to give a Certificate thereof ; and flie Names of the Perfons to Whom the fame hath been adminiftered flball be enrolled in the Town- Clerk's Office in the fame Manner is the Names of Ffeemen are enrolled. Xxx OAth of Fide. lily cIjoincde The Formi. N) Perfon to Cxccute any Officm,&c.un. left he has ta. ken fAidOath, -C , Provided