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Office of Bureau Refugees Freemen &c
Sub. Dist. Robeson County North Carolina
Lumberton October 4th 1865.

This indenture made and entered into on the 4th day of October A.D. 1865 between between Archibald Buie of the one part of the county and state aforesaid and Stephen Buie (colored) free laborer of the other part: Witnesseth  [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] that the said laborer agrees to receive in compensation for his services from the 21st April A.D. 1865 to the present date one third of the corn which he has made and all of the potatoes, he aqreeing to gather the same.

Arch'd. Buie
Stephen his X mark Buie

Witnessed & Approved by
James Sinclair
Agent of Bureau