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State of Mississippi Franklin County}
Know all men by these presents that I Ira E Bryd of the County and State aforesaid do hereby agree and bind myself to pay to Joseph a colored man formerly belonging to Mary Jones the sum of seventy dollars for the faithful performance of such reasonable labor as I may require of him from now untill the first day of January 1866.
I the above named Joseph do hereby agree and bind myself to be obedient and faithfully perform such reasonable labor as may be required of me by the aforesaid Ira E Byrd from now untill the first day of January 1866 for and in Consideration of the sum of Seventy dollars to be paid to me by the aforesaid Ira E Byrd on or before the first day January 1866.
In witness whereof are hereunto Inscribe our names this the 26 day of August AD 1865

Ira E Byrd
Witness LLewellyn E. Richardson
Joseph x his mark