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Mr. J.F. Wallace of Tallahatchie County Miss being duly sworn upon his oath states that to the freedmen to be transported from the State of North Carolina to his plantation in Tallahatchie County Miss. he is able to give comfortable homes, employment and for his own personal direction useable wages + rations.
That he needs the services of such Freedmen to enable him to carry on the business of planting.
That he will contract with such freedmen in person to furnish them at his place in Tallahatchie County Miss. good homes, employment, wages + rations.
Such contracts to be approved by the Assistant Commissioner of the State from which the freemen are to be transported and to be made in quadruple one copy for each of the contracting parties & the remaining two copies to be delivered to Asst. Comm. for Miss.
That he will not sell or otherwise transfer my order of transportation afore or passage upon such order that he will actually transport the parties named in the contract is to be made under the provisions of the third condition above to the place of destination named in said contract.
J.F.Wallace