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North Carolina
Edgecomb County 
The undersigned agrees to work as laborers on the Walnut Creek Farm of Kemp P. Battle until the 1st January 1867 and to do all kinds of Labor usual on the farms of Edgecomb County and in getting the crop to market, the said Battle paying the wages opposite their respective names on the following terms, viz:
1st They shall work under the supervision and direction of Allan Battle, or such other manager as may be placed in charge. Prompt obedience to his orders and respectful conduct to him and promised and required. 
2nd The employee shall be at their post at work by sunrise and quit by sunset, with 2 hours for dinner, form the 1st of June to 1st of September, the rest of the year the interval for dinner shall be one hour, and they shall be at work from the time they can see by daylight in the morning and continue as long as they can see by daylight in the evening. Night work shall not be required except under pressing emergencies to be determined, by the manager. Saturday afternoon shall be holiday, except for taking care of stock or other necessary job, ordering cotton-picking, fodder pulling or other pressing emergencies, But the employee must not quit work or take holidays without the manager's consent, work on Saturday afternoon to be paid for extra.
3rd The manager or owner of farm, many discharge any employee at any time for breach of this contract or idleness, in which case, one half of the wages then due shall be forfeited and after the expiration of one week he shall vacate the premises, or if not, he, his families and effects may be removed there from forthwith.
4th Unusual assemblages shall not be allowed and the manager may forbid the visiting of any objectionable person.
5th For the faithful performance of their work, the employees, in addition