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AGREEMENT WITH FREEDMEN.
This Agreement Between John T. McGowan of Hinds County, and Freed, Woman Fanny McGowan
Witnesseth, That said McGowan herby hires said 
Fanny McGowan as a Labourer from this date until the 1st Januar 1867; and for faithful services to be rendered in his said employment 
by said Fanny during all that time, the said McGowan hereby agrees to allow and pay her as follows: fifty dollars to be paid at the Expiration of the time namely on the 1st day of January 1867 the said [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] McGowan also agrees to furnish the said Woman a Garden spot for her own use And the said Fanny, in consideration thereof, hereby agrees to render to said McGowan, for and during all of said term, due obedience and faithful service, and promptly to perform all such work and duty as said McGowan may reasonably require of her and to bestow due care and attention in all things, upon all property and interests committed to her charge and keeping, and will faithfully account, or pay for the same, to be deducted out of her wages, or so far as the same will pay; and will discharge in all things, the duties of a faithful servant. And it is hereby understood, and mutually agreed, that for such time as the said Fanny may be absent without leave, she shall forfeit her compensation at the rate of One dollar per day, each absence not to count less than one day; and the said McGowan may at any time discharge her for such absence. Also, that for time lost by sickness, a deduction shall be made in the next succeeding settlement at the rate of fifty cents per day, where she loses more than three days at any one time; and the said Fanny shall also be charged with the actual cost of medical attention, medicines and other supplies furnished her during such period of sickness. it is further agreed that Fanny is to have 1/2 of Each Saturday for herself unless it is absolutely necessary to work in th crop
IT IS AGREED, that this contract shall be complied with in accordance with the provisions of "An act to confer civil rights upon freedmen, and for other purposes," approved November 25th, 1865.                              
Given under our hands, in duplicate, this 6 day of January A.D. 1866.
J T McGowan [[LS]]
Fanny her X mark McGowan [[LS]]

Witness:
J M Shaw
John S. Cook