
The image depicts a handwritten oath of office document from 1865, where officials in the Parish of East Feliciana, Louisiana, including H.B. Chase, solemnly swear to support the Constitution and laws of the United States and the state of Louisiana, promising to faithfully discharge their duties to the best of their abilities, ending with a traditional invocation for divine assistance, as documented and recorded by J. H. Bardaday, Clerk.