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one Dollar per day for all lost time although I agree or contracted to pay them only sixty dollars apiece per annum. In settlement I disallowed one dollar per day, and deducted all lost time pro rata (19 cents a day). Thornton had also overcharged them for goods, I also made the proper deductions and found due Partee $60.30 which Thornton paid, part on money and part in provisions. Thornton, I am fully convinced is a "Rogue" as his actions proved throughout. I advised Partee to prosecute Thornton, but he seemed to think if he did, Thornton would kill him.

[[left margin]] Complaint No. 6 [[/left margin]]
Lahoray Lyons (Freedman) complained that B. Walter (white) had apprenticed to him two of his children. I investigated the