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LEASE OF LANDS, TENEMENTS, &c.

Memorandum of an Agreement made this 9th day of January 1866, between Capt F. A. Seely 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. C. and Stephen Spruel(col'd) 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 Stephen Spruel (col'd) from the first day of January 1866, to the first day of January 1867, the following described lands and premises, to wit: Eight Acres of cleared land on the Judge Donnald plantation between the Trent Road and the Trent River 2 miles from New Berne adjoining the lands of Mr Bray and Mr. Rhein's.

And the said Stephen Spruel (col'd) hereby agrees that one equal fourth part of the productions realized by the cultivation and working of the plantation aforesaid shall be promptly gathered, prepared, and delivered to the authorized Agent of the United States at New Berne on or before the first day of January, 1867, in proper packages and condition for transportation.

And the said Stephen Spruel (col'd) further agrees, in relation to the employment and payment of freedom worked upon the said plantation, that he will employ and pay them, and provide for their families, in compliance with the Regulations of this Bureau, concerning the employment and general welfare of freedmed, which Regulations are made a part of this agreement, so far as they relate to employers and employed, and further that he will do all things required of him by the Regulations of the Commissioner of this Bureau concerning abandoned and confiscable property.

FA Seely
Capt & Fin Agt NC [SEAL.]
Stephen Spruel X his mark [SEAL.]

Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of--
Edmund Wong
R. P. Meriam

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