Appointment of G.B. Cooke as Justice of the Peace, San Saba County

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Partially printed form, completed in manuscript. An appointment for state office in Texas during Reconstruction, signed and blind stamped by Andrew J. Hamilton, Provisional Governor of Texas. Countersigned by Joseph Spence as "acting secretary of State". Appoints G.B. Cooke "to the offfice of Justice of the Peace for the precinct in which he resides (no. 2) in the county of San Saba". Cooke served as a Captain in a Texas Cavalry Regiment for the duration of the Civil War. The verso prints a version of the loyalty oath required of former Confederates to re-obtain state and federal offices, in which the signer swears that, "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same: that I will, in good faith, observe and support the law of Congress and the proclamations of the President of the United States in relation to slavery." His statement is witnessed by Robert Masterson, Chief Justice of San Saba County, on February 26, 1866