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Lease for Houses and Tenements, Only. Memorandum of an Agreement made this 10th day of August 1865, between Capt. Horace James. A.Q.M. Financial Agent of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, as provided for by the Acts of Congress respectively approved March 12, 1863, July 2, 1864, and March 3, 1865, for taking charge of, and leasing abandoned and confiscable lands, houses, and tenements in the East Dist. of North Carolina and Harker & Hawkins of Beaufort in the County of Carteret and State of North Carolina WITNESSETH: that in pursuance of said Acts, and of the instructions of the Commissioner of the Bureau, the said Agent, for and in behalf of the United States, agrees, upon the terms hereinafter contained, to lease to the said Harker & Hawkins from the First day of July, 1865, from month to month, (either party hereto being at liberty to terminate this lease at the end of any month from the date hereof,) the following described premises: A Store on south side of Front-Street, Beaufort. N.C. - the second building west of Davis & Reiger's Store. The same heretofore leased to John Albert. And the said Harker & Hawkins hereby agrees to pay the said Agent ($15.00) Fifteen dollars per month, for each month from the date hereof, so long as he shall continue in possession of the said premises, and to pay the rent of each month in advance, and at the expiration of this lease, as aforesaid, to deliver possession of the said property to the said Agent, or his successor, in as good condition as the same is now in; loss by fire or other unavoidable injury excepted. Horace James, Capt. A.Q. M. Fin. Ag. Bureau, etc per M Porter Snell Bv't Capt. Ass't Sup't Ag. Bureau [SEAL.] Hawkins & Harker [SEAL.] Signed, sealed and delivered, } in presence of - } Hyman Thompson Joseph [[Pierle?]]
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