This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/920.2 Message Board Post: Clay County Missouri's Oath of Loyalty I...................swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, and will support the Constitution and laws thereof as the supreme law of the land, any law or ordinance of any state to the contrary notwithstanding; that I will to the best of my ability protect and defend the Union of the United States, and not allow the same to be broken up and dissolved, or the Government thereof to be destroyed or overthrown, under any circumstances, if in my power to prevent it; that I will support the Constitution of the State of Missouri; and that I make this oath without any mental reservation or evasion, and hold it to be binding on me. Subscribed and sworn to before the undersigned .........................of the County of Clay and State of Missouri, this..............day of.............186_. Witness my signature and official seal at office in the City of Liberty, the day, month and year aforesaid.