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NARA 540
Elizabethtown, February 12th, 1868

General:
We have rented for the ensuing year (and are sub-renting) a large Plantation of high and low land, upon which are a number of negro-houses, framed, built of lumber, with two rooms each, and brick chimneys with fire places in each room. These houses are occupied by our colored tenants, who, unable to give sufficient security for the payment in money, of the rent agreed on ($25 each house) have signed contracts of the Tenor of the enclosed - giving us a lien upon the crops which they may grow on the land.
We transmit you a copy of the agreement, or contract, which we require