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

This Indenture, made on the sixteenth day of January, 1866, Witnesseth: That Susan Taliaferro, colored, aged sixteen years [[Strikethrough]] the  of   ,and [[/strikethrough]] an orphan girl has voluntarily expressed a willingness to live with and be bound to P. B. Starke Bolivar County of Miss for the term of two years from 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, and in every way care for, said child, Susan Taliferro during the term of this Indenture: the said child, Susan Taliaferro, is to be sent to school, taught by a competent teacher, at least six months of each and every year. He further binds himself to exact no more labor from said colored child, Susan Taliaferro, than is due from white children who are bound and 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 their 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.]

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