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John Compton being duly sworn deposed and says
I live in Orange County the custom in my section is where renters clear new land and the owner finds every thing but labor and board, the owner has one half the crop, if the renters furnish everything They have the whole crop for the first year

John Compton

Sworn and subscribed to before me at Hillsboro this 3rd day of March 1868

Chas B. Whittemore
Agt Bu R.F. & A.L.