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III. AND be it Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That in all Caes when any Judges, Jutices of the Peace, or other Perons, are or hall be impowered to adminiter any Manner of Oath in this State, and the Peron to be worn hall be concientiouly crupulous of taking a Book Oath in Manner aforeaid, and pray the Benefit of this Act, it hall and may be lawful for all uch Judges, Jutices, and other Perons, and they, and each of them, are hereby required to excue uch Peron from laying Hands upon or touching the Holy Gopels; and the aid Judges, Jutices, and others, are hereby directed in uch Cae to adminiter the Oath requried in the following Manner, to wit, The Party o concientiouly crupulous, and praying the Benefit of this Act, hall tand with his right Hand lifted up towards Heaven, in Token of his olemn Appeal to the Supreme God, whoe Dwelling is in the highet Heavens, and alo in Token, that if he hould werve from the Trutch, he would draw down the Vengeance of Heaven upon his Head, and hall introduce the intended Oath with thee Words, ''viz. I A. B. do appeal to God, as a Witnes of the Truth and Avenger of Falehood, as I hall anwer the ame at the great Day of Judgment, when the Secrets of all Hears hall be known, that, &c.'' as the Words of the Oath may be. And it is hereby Declared, That an Oath thus adminitered and taken, with the right Hand lifted up, is and hall be a lawful Oath in this State; and uch Oath hall be admitted and ued in all Courts in this State where the ame hall be requeted as aforeaid, and hall be equally good and valid in Law, to all Intents and Purpoes, as if the ame Oath had been taken by the Party, having laid his Hand upon, and kied the Holy Gopels.

IV. AND be it Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That the olemn Affirmation of Quakers, Moravians, and Menonits, made in the Manner heretofore ued and accutomed, hall be admitted as Evidence in civil Controveries in this State; and where other Perons are required to take an Oath or Oaths to the State, the aid Quakers, Moravians, and Menonits, hall make their olemn Affirmations in the Words of the aid Oath or Oaths, beginning after the Word wear, or hall make uch Affirmations as hall be hereafter provided for them by Law.



E it Enacted, by the General Aembly of the State of North-Carolina, and by the Authority of the ame, That every Peron who, at any Time after the Tenth Day of May, hall unlawfully and corruptly procure or uborn any Witnes or Witnees, by Letters, Rewards, Promies, or by any other initer and unlawful Labour or Means whatoever, to commit any wilful and corrupt Perjury, in any Matter or Caue whatoever now depending, or which hereafter hall depend in Suit and Variance, by any Writ, Action, Bill, Complaint, Indictment or Information, in any wie touching or concerning any Crime or Offence, or touching or concerning any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Goods, Chattels, Debts, Damages, or other Etate or Interet whatoever, in any Court of Equity, Superior Court, Court of Appeals and Writs