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Contract for Hire.
(THIS FORM TO BE USED WHERE THE COMPENSATION IS A CERTAIN PORTION OF THE CROP.)

This Agreement between D.F. Steward, of Rankin County County, and Freedman, Daniel Yellowly, witnesseth: That said D.F. Steward hereby hires said Danl. Yellowly as a field hand, from this day until 1st Jany. 1867; and for faithful services to be rendered in his said employment, by said Danl Yellowly during all that time; the said D.F. Steward hereby agrees to allow and pay him as follows: One hundred & fifty (150) dollars & his proportionate part, among the other hands, of all the cotton made, over five bales to the hand. And the said Danl. Yellowly is to clothe himself & pay his Doctor bill & tax. He is to draw 3 1/2 lbs. of meat & 1 Peck meal per week. And the said Danl. Yellowly, in consideration thereof, hereby agrees to render  to said D.F. Steward, for and during all of said term, due obedience and faithful service, and promptly to perform all such work and duty as said D.F. Steward may reasonably require of him, and to bestow due care and attention in all things, upon all property and interests committed to his charge and keeping, and will faithfully account, or pay for the same to be deducted out of his wages, or share of the crop, 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 said Danl Yellowly may be absent without leave, he shall forfeit his compensation at the rate of Two dollars per day, each absence not to count less than one day; and the said D.F. Steward may at any time discharge him for such absence. Also that for time lost by sickness, a deduction shall be made in the next succeeding settlement at the rate of 85 cts  per day, where he loses more than 2 days at any one time; and the said Danl. Yellowly shall also be charged with the actual cost of medical attendance, medicines, and other supplies furnished him during such period of sickness. 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 20 day of January, A.D. 1866.

D. F. Steward   [Seal.]
Danl. his x mark Yellowly   [Seal.]

WITNESS:
J R Clymer
Hezekiah Oden 

NOTE.-"All contracts for labor with freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes, for a longer period than one month, shall be in writing and in duplicate, attested and read to said freedmen, free negro or mulatto, by a beat, city or county officer, or two disinterested white persons of the county in which the labor is to be performed, of which each party shall have one; and said contracts shall be taken and held as entire contracts; and if the laborer shall quit the service of the employer before the expiration of his term of service, without good cause, he shall forfeit his wages for that year, up to the time of quitting."

Printed and for sale at The Mississippi Standard office. Jackson- $2.50 per quire.

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