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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
FOR THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
Office of Assistant Commissioners Miss.

This Indenture, made one the sixteenth day of January, 1866, Witnesseth: Tht Cornelia Boradders, colored, aged thirteen years the__ of___, and an orphan girl has voluntarily expressed a willingness to live with and be bound to P. B Starke of Bolivar County Miss for the term of five years from the date of this instrument

That said P. B. Starke AGREES AND BINDS HIMSELF unto Col Samuel Thomas, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, for State of Mississippi, to furnish food, clothing, washing, lodging, school books, and medical attendance to in every way for said child Cornelia Broadder. During the term of this indenture, that said child Cornelia Broadders, is to be sent to a schoo, taught by a competent teacher, at least six months each and every year. He further binds himself to exact no more labor from said colored child, Cornelia Broadders, than is due white children who are bound under the laws of the State of Mississippi, in similar circumstances. 

The Assistant Commissioner, Bureau  Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, for the State of Mississippi, reserves the right to annul this Indenture at any time the parties concerned fail to perform their part of its stipulations.

In Witness Whereof, The parties to these presents have hereunto set this hands and seals.

In presence of Horatio. N. Wheeler

Joseph Warren for Col. Samuel Thomas {L. S}
L. S.
P. B. Starke {L.S.}

[FREEDMEN'S BUREAU PRESS PRINT, VICKSBURG, MISS.]

Transcription Notes:
Corrected County name. Corrected "Samuel". Added missing section.