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Geo W Tool Capt 50 U.S.C.I.
Actg. Sub Com Freedmen Bureau
Westville Miss
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Agreement with Freedman 
This an agreement made this 2nd day of June AD 1865 by and between N.C. Hathorn of the County of Covington and State of Miss of the first part and the persons hereinafter named and undersigned freedmen of the same place hereto of the second part
Witnesseth that the purpose of Cultivating the plantation known as the plantation of N.C. Hathorn, in the County and State aforesaid, during the year Commencing in the 2nd day of June 1865 and terminating on the first day of January 1866 the said N.C. Hathorn party of the first part in condition of the promises and conditions herein after mentioned on the part of the part of the second part agrees to furnish the said laborers and those rightfully dependent upon them free of charge clothing and food of good quality and sufficient quantity good and sufficient quarters, medical attention when necessary and kind and humane treatment. to allot from the lands of said plantation for garden purposes one acre to each family such allotment to include a reasonable use of tools and animals for the Cultivation of the same, to exact one half a days labor on Saturdays and none whatever on Sundays And it is further agreed that in case the said N.C. Hathorn shall fail neglect or refuse to fulfill any part of the obligation assumed by himself or shall furnish said part of the second with insufficient food or clothing or be guilty of cruelty to them he shall besides the legal recourse left to the party or parties aggrieved render this contract liable to annulment by the Provost Marshal of freedmen And it is further agreed on the part of the second part that they will each well and faithfully perform

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