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Approved
L.P. Woodworth
Lieut and Sub Com
Yazoo City Miss
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The said S. Lester Barksdale further agrees to Keep constantly on hand meat, meal, and salt, which he hereby binds himself to furnish the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen in sufficient quantity over and above their rations as stated, at current market price.
The said S. Lester Barksdale further agrees to require no labor of the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen from 12 o.c. M Saturdays until the Mondays following, except attention to stock, and except further, that when work and labor shall be deemed indispensable by the said J. Lester Barksdale to the successful cultivation and gathering of the crop, and when the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen shall be so required to labor on the afternoons of Saturdays as above stated, the said S. Lester Barksdale agrees either to pay the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen for each extra labor, or to allow the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen an equal amount of time for their own use out of laboring days when the situation & condition of crop & plantation will permit.
It is further agreed that in case any of the undersigned freedmen or freedwomen shall absent themselves without permission, or shall neglect or refuse to labor as above stipulated, the said S Lester Barksdale or his agent, reserves the right to discharge such undersigned freedman or freedwoman from his employ and such undersigned freedman or freedwoman shall forfeit all wages due him or her by virtue hereof, at time of his or her discharge. It is further understood and agreed that the said B. Lester Barksdale is to furnish all necessary medicines, and attention when sick to the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen but is not to be responsible for doctors bills of the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen, it is further agreed that the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen are to suffer a pro-rata deduction from their wages for all time lost by them through negligence, indolence or other disability or disinclination to labor and during such disability or disinclination the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen are to be at their own expense and charged in charged in every respect. 
It is further understood and agreed that the undersigned freedmen & freedwomen shall not keep or have any stock or personal property of any kind on said plantation, nor will any