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No. 24.

LEASE FOR HOUSES AND TENEMENTS ONLY.

Memorandum of Agreement made this second day of January 1865, between C.T. Blakesler Asst Special Agent of the Treasury Department, duly appointed under the Acts of Congress respectively approved March 12, 1863, and July 2, 1864, for taking charge of captured and abandoned property, and leasing abandoned and confiscable lands, houses, and tenements in the sixth Special Agency, and Peyser & Hobson of Beaufort in the County of Carteret and the State of N. Carolina

WITNESSETH, that in pursuance of said Acts, and of the instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury, the said Agent, for and in behalf of the United States, agrees, upon the terms hereinafter contained, to lease to the said Peyser & Hobson from the first day of January, 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: vacant ground between front street & the sound conveyed to S.W. Martin F.L. King in the year 1863  The same being situated in the town of Beaufort N.C.

And the said Peyser & Hobson hereby agree to pay the said Agent twelve 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 the 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.

C.T. Blakeslee SEAL.
Peyser & Hobson SEAL.
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of -}
A.T. Blakeslee
Jeremiah Williams

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