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10 Office assistant Commissioner Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Montgomery Ala. August 30th 1865 General Order } No 11 } For the purposes of this Bureau that portion of the State of Alabama within this jurisdiction is hereby divided into the following Districts. soon as practicable a Superintendent will be assigned to each District. Until such assignment is made the present Assistant Commissioner will report as heretofore. I Mobile District Headquarters at Mobile Counties: Mobile, Baldwin, Washington Clarke, Monroe, Conecuh, Choctaw. II Selma District Head Quarters at Selma Counties: Dallas, Perry, Shelby, Jefferson, Blount, Wilcox, Bibb, Talladega, Randolph, Calhoun, St Clair. III Montgomery District Head Quarters at Montgomery Counties: Butler, Lowndes, Montgomery, Autauga, Coosa, Macon, Russell, Chambers, Tallapoosa. IV Troy District Head Quarters at Troy Counties: Covington, Coffee, Pike, Dale, Henry, Barbour V Demopolis District Head Quarters at Demopolis Counties: Marengo, Lumpton, Greene, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Fayette, Marion, Walker By order of Brig. Gen. Wager Swayne A.A.G. 11 Office Assistant Commissioner Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Montgomery Ala. August 30. 1865 General Order } No 12 } I All contracts with freedmen, for labor, for the period of one month, and over, must be reduced to writing, approved by an agent of this Bureau, and one copy deposited with him. In proper cases he shall require security. II For plantation labor: 1st Such contracts will be made with heads of families. They will embrace the labor of all the members of the family, able to work. 2nd The employer will stipulate to provide good and sufficient food, quarters, and medical attendance in the entire family, and such further communication as may be agreed on. 3rd Such contracts will be a lien upon the crop, of which not more than one half will be removed until full payment is made, and the contract released by an agent of this Bureau, or a Justice of the Peace, in case it is impracticable to procure the services of such agent. III The usual remedies for violation of contracts to the employer, of forfeiture of wages due, and to the freedman, of damages secured by lien, or personal security, are deemed to be sufficient and all that are practicable. IV But as many persons have not yet learned the building force of a contract, and that freedom does not mean living without labor, it is further ordered that where any employer under this order, shall make oath before a Justice of the Peace, acting as an Agent of this