Excerpt From New Hampshire State Constitution

ESTABLISHED OCTOBER 3l, l783 TO TAKE EFFECT JUNE 2, l784 AS SUBSEQUENTLY AMENDED AND IN FORCE DECEMBER 1990

OATHS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS - EXCLUSION FROM OFFICES - COMMISSIONS -WRITS - CONFIRMATION OF LAWS - HABEAS CORPUS - THE ENACTING STYLE -CONTINUANCE OF OFFICERS - PROVISION FOR FUTURE REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION - ETC.

[Art.] 84. [Oath of Civil Officers.] Any person chosen governor, councilor, senator, or representative, military or civil officer, (town officers excepted) accepting the trust, shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of hi office, make and subscribe the following declaration, viz. -

I, A.B. do solemnly swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to the United States of America and the state of New Hampshire, and will support the constitution thereof. So help me God.

I, A.B. do solemnly and sincerely swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent on me as ................................................., according to the best of my abilities, agreeably to the rules and regulations of this constitution and laws of the state of New Hampshie. So help me God.

Any person having taken and subscribed the oath of allegiance, and the same being filed in the secretary's office, he shall not be obliged to take said oath again.

Provided always, when any person chosen or appointed as aforesaid shall be of the denomination called Quakers, or shall be scrupulous of swearing, and shall decline taking the said oaths, such person shall take and subscribe them, omitting the word "swear," and likewise the words "So help me God," subjoining instead thereof, "This I do under the pains and penalties of perjury."