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Lease for Houses and Tenements, Only.

Memorandum of an Agreement made this 1st day of September 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 East Dist. of North Carolina & Dempsey Sealey of Morehead City 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 Dempsey Sealey from the 1st day of September, 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 One-story Building between the R.R. and the Sound in Morehead City, said to have been abandoned by Webb and Moore. Said building is east of and close adjoining to a two-story building belonging to — Davis

And the said Dempsey Sealey hereby agrees to pay the said Agent ($5.00) Five dollars per month, for [[strikethrough]] each [[/strikethrough]] three months 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 Cap't Ass't Sup't Bureau etc [SEAL.]

Dempsey His Mark X Sealey [SEAL.]

Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of — }
Tony His Mark X Heath

Roland His Mark X MacAlinney