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Know all men by these presents that we E.H. Flowers & Ben Sharpe are bound by the following agreement, viz.

That said Flowers is to furnish land suitable for a one horse crop not less than thirty five acres of land or more if said Ben Sharpe can cultivate it.

This land is to be well cultivated by said Ben Sharpe and a failure on his part by neglect of duty or refusal to carry out this agreement, if either that neglect or refusal shall damage the interest of said Flowers. A party of three men shall be called who shall determine what the land was capable of producing and said Ben Sharpe shall pay said Flowers the amount lost by his forfeiture to carry out fully this contract. EH Flowers is to furnish house and fuel for said Sharpe. Said Sharpe is to have half of all that is made except the Cotton seed picking of the field & shucks and is to plant one half of his crop in Cotton. The entire crop is to be EH Flowers' until he is paid for advances he makes to said Sharpe. Wood is to be cut from such parts of the land as said Flowers may select. Manure is to be paid for jointly and Flowers is to determine the quantity of manure. Flowers is to furnish all the implements necessary to carry on the farm. Sharpe is to clear out the ditches, repair the fences & put the Plantation
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