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parties who have claims against the employer. These claims are generally for supplies furnished to the laborers by the employers, who have procured them from merchants, giving the merchants a mortgage, or lien on the entire crop. In most cases, the supplies are charged to the laborers by the employer, who holds the accounts against them. And even when the employers agreed to "find" the laborers, giving them a less portion of the crop, the entire crop is sometimes seized under mortgage, or attachment, to pay the debts of the employer. In all such cases, orders have been issued from this Office, "forbidding the operation of any mortgage, attachment, or other legal process, upon that portion of the crop which belongs to the laborers according to the contract, leaving it subject to their control," provided the laborers have not voluntarily parted with that right by contract, or otherwise, which has not yet appeared in any instance. Connected with such orders, however, the assurance is always given, that the laborers will be required to pay, out of their share of the crops, all just and reasonable demands on them for supplies actually consumed by them, so that they may not be liable to pay the same accounts to other parties.-

There has been but little trouble respecting the claims fo laborers, who have contracted for fixed wages, as the time for settlement with them has not yet arrived.-