Section 11-16-13
Inspectors, clerks, and returning officers - Oath.
Before entering upon their duties, the inspectors, clerks, and returning officers must take an oath to perform their duties pertaining to said election honestly, faithfully, and impartially and according to law, which oath may be administered by any officer authorized by law to administer oaths or by any one of the inspectors.
(Code 1907, §189; Code 1923, §281; Code 1940, T. 12, §244.)