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To the fourth, these rations are to be weighed and measured out once every week, and to be of good quality. Said Singleton to furnish one half acre of land to each head of a family as a garden and to allow use of mules and farming utensils for cultivating same. Said freed men and women upon their part agree to labor faithfully throughout the year for said Singleton, upon and about his plantation in Madison County called the Elder Place, in raising corn, cotton, vegetables and other productions of the soil, to assisting in taking care of his stock, in repairing fences, houses, stables, wells, roads, gates, and farming utensils, and to do such other labor, upon, about, and concerning said farm, as the said Singleton or his agent shall direct or require, to cultivate five acres of corn to each first class hand, and in the same proportion for hands of inferior classes, and such vegetables as may be required for the use of the place or the family of said Singleton, further to cultivate ten acres of cotton to each full hand, and in the same proportion for those of a lower grade. Your such care, attention and labor, thus faithfully bestowed, said freed men and women, are to have one third part of all the cotton raised upon said plantations, for the said year of 1866: Subject to the following conditions; that is the said freed men and women, or any of them, shall fail or refuse to render full and efficient service as above stated, then said Singleton to keep an account of all last time, and charge him, or her, thus failing or refusing, at the rate of two dollars per day, to be deducted from his, or her share of the crop, and should said Singleton be satisfied, that he or she will not labor according to contract, or should he or she become insolvent to or unmanageable, by himself of any one
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