Excerpt from An Account of the Exercises at the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary: Of the Inauguration of Our First President, George Washington, Held at the Meeting-House of the First Parish, in Beverly, Massachusetts, April 30, A. D. 1889 As the Chancellor advances to administer the oath, Mr. Otis, the secretary of the Senate, holds up the Bible on its crimson cushion, Open, on which the hand of Washington rests, while the oath is read slowly and distinctly, and at the close of which he solemnly replies, I swear so help me God! While Mr. Otis would raise the Bible to his lips, he bends down reverently and kisses it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.