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Contract for Labor
This indenture, made and and entered into on the First day of January 1866 between E.W. Wilers of the County Nash State of North Carolina of the first part, and the undersigned freed laborers of the second part 

Witnesses that the said laborers have agreed to work for the said E.W. Wilers from this date till the 31st day of December 1866, to do all kinds of work common to the farms of the county, to do their work faithfully under the direction of E.W. Wilers and his foreman, to be orderly in conduct and respectful in their deportment.

And the male hands do further agree to attend in turn to the stock of the farm on Sunday and on certain Saturday evenings specified below. And they further agree that all time lost by idleness or allowed them for the transactions of their own business shall not be paid for.

And the said E.W. Wilers has agrees that he will furnish to said laborers comfortable quarters for themselves and their families, four pounds of meat to each man, three pounds to each woman and one peck of meal to each hand. he further agrees to pay them the amount of money by [[smudge]] which stands opposite their respective names to treat them kindly and to encourage the establishment of schools for their children. And he further agrees to allow them one half of alternate Saturdays the time so lost to be charged to them, but not the board of those who attend to the stock.

He reserves the right to employ them on such half Saturdays when the condition of the crop requires it.