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LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPABTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



EES. FEBRUARY 23, 1887, No. 6. Joint resolution providing for the payment 

 of per diem laborers in Government employ on " Memorial " or " Decora- 

 tion Day." and the Fourth day of July, of each year, as on other days. 

 (24 Stat. 644.) 



Holidays allowed to per diem employees. 



That all per diem employees of the Government, on duty at Wash- 

 ino^ton or elsewhere in the United States, shall be allowed the da}" of 

 each year, which is celebrated as " Memorial " or " Decoration Day " 

 and the fourth of July of each year, as holiday, and shall receive the 

 same pay as on other days. 



Res. February 23, 1887, No. 6, 24 Stat Wi. 



REV. ST. SEC. 1757. 



Oath of office. 



Sec. 1757. AMienever any person who is not rendered ineligible to 

 office by the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Consti- 

 tution is elected or appointed to any office of honor or trust under 

 the Government of the United States, and is not able, on account of 

 his participation in the late rebellion, to take the oath prescribed in 

 the preceding section, he shall, before entering upon the duties of 

 his office, take and subscribe in lieu of that oath the following oath: 

 " I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and de- 

 fend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, for- 

 eign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the 

 same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reserva- 

 tion or purpose of evasion ; and that I will well and faithfully dis- 

 charge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help 

 me God." 



ACT MAY 13, 1884, c. 46. (23 Stat. 21.) 

 Form of oath of office. 



Sec. 2. That section seventeen hundred and fifty-six of the Revised 

 Stjitutes be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and hereafter the oath 

 to be taken by any person elected or appointed to any office of honor 

 or profit either in the civil, military, or naval service, except the 

 President of the United States, shall be as prescribed in section sev- 

 enteen hundred and fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes. But this 

 repeal .shall not afl'ect the oaths prescribed by existing statutes in rela- 

 tion to the performance of duties in special or particular sub-ordinate 

 offices and eniployjnents. 



Act May 13, 1884, c. 46, s. 2, 28 Stat. 22. 



This is a portion of "An act aniondiiii: the Koviso<l Statutes of the 

 United Sl.ites In respect of otticial oaths, and for other puriwses." cited 

 above. 



REV. ST. SEC. 1758. 



Who may administer oath of office. 



Sec. 17.58. The oath of office required by either of the two preced- 

 ing sections may be taken before any officer who is authorized either 

 by the laws of the United States, or by the local municipal law, to 

 administer oaths, in the State, Territory, or District where such oath 

 may bo administered. 



Tli<> two jn-cccNlinn soc'tlons rofcrrcd to in this section aro Mow St. sees. 

 IIM and 17.">7. Uo\ . St. sec. 1757 is set forth above, and Rev. St. sec. 

 MUi\ Is repealed by a^i Mny 13, 18S4. c. 46. s. 2. set forth above. 



