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State of Mississippi Yazoo County, I, W.J. Epperson of Yazoo City, County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that I have this day hired & taken into my employ for one year from date hereof a colored girl named Louisa Holliday, aged 12 years, and I do hereby agree & obligate myself to furnish & provide the said girl with good & comfortable clothing & quarters, and with sufficient wholesome food & medical attention, and to treat her kindly so long as she remains in my employ, In Witness whereof I hereto sign my name, and affix my seal, this 27th day of June, A.D. 1867 W.J, Epperson seal Executed in duplicate before me this 28th, day of June A.D. 1865, O.B. Foster Lieut. & Provost Marshal, of Freedmen, Yazoo City, Missi