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State of Tennessee } Hardeman County } I have this day hired Henry Stallings to work for me during the year 1866. I also take his family which is a wife and one child and another child expected he is to furnish their own clothing pay any Dr's bill or bills of medicine which he or his wife may contract they are to do any kind of work which I may cause or see cause for them to do they are to have no stock or poltry on the place for their compliance with the above contract. I agree to pay him the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for noncompliance they forfeit their claim against me he is to make his time up if he loses any This Febr 15th 1866. Test Jas M. Stallings G. M. D. Stallings Kemp Stallings Approved Febr 27th 866 John D. Ussery Agt R F & A L By Jas. G. W. Fenwick Ast