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Lease for Houses and Tenements Only.

Memorandum of an Agreement made this Eighteenth day of August 1865, between Capt. Horace James A.Q.M. Financial Agent of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, as provided for by the Acts of Congress respectively approved March 12, 1863 and July 2, 1864, and March 3, 1865 for taking charge of and leasing abandoned and confiscable lands, houses, and tenements in the State of N Carolina and WJ Hodges of New Berne in the County of Craven and State of North Carolina.

Witnesseth, that in pursuance of said Acts, and of the instructions of the Commissioner of the Bureau, the said Agent, for and in behalf of the United States, agrees, upon the terms hereinafter contained, to lease to the said WJ Hodges from the Eighteinth day of August, 1865, from month to month, either party hereto being at liberty to terminate this lease at the end of any month from the date hereof, the following described premises:
Two story frame Building on South Front St lot 22. 
Abandoned by Raymond Castic

And the said WJ Hodges hereby agrees to pay the Agent Fifteen dollars per month, for each month from the date hereof, so long as he shall continue in possession of the said premises, and to pay the rent of each month in advance, and at the expiration of this lease as aforesaid to deliver possession of the said property to the said Agent, or his successor, in as good condition as the same is now in; loss by fire or other unavoidable injury excepted.

Horace James Capt & A.Q.M [SEAL.]
W J Hodges [SEAL.]

Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of – 
GM Sarins
[[R. P. Clerriam?]]

Transcription Notes:
last two signatures unclear