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for and during the year 1866, & furthermore
to perform all labor & jobs usually performed by the colored people when they were but as slaves, whenever called upon so to do by their employer or this agent & moreover to work from daylight until dark each day throughout the year, excepting on
Sundays, their employer the said Warfield, to encourage & direct their work; [[strikethrough]] and for the [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] also they are to service on the farm of said Warfield at all times without a written permission to leave & for their service, the said Warfield promises & does hereby bind himself to give the said
laborers all that part of the crops of cotton & corn (above (45) forty five bales of cotton, averaging (500) five hundred pounds hereunto to the bale & (1/4) one fourth of one crib of corn (said crib to be estimated by the capacity of cribs on said
Warfield Plantation) to be grown during the year 1866 - and it is furthermore understood between the parties hereto that the said
freedmen are to pay their own taxes & doctors bills, & should their employer, or his agent at any time, advance any sum of 
money for said freedmen, he

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Edited: removed note [[handwritten]] not required, read instructions, removed [[illegible]] use [[?]] if don't know word per SI, with exception of one word in strikethrough sentence all other words could be transcribed