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NARA 57

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No. 24
LEASE FOR HOUSES AND TENEMENTS.

Memorandum of an Agreement made this 31st day of March 1865 between D Heaton, Supg. Special Agent of the Treasury Department, duly appointed under the Acts of Congress respectively approved March 12, 1863, and July 2, 1864, for taking charge of captured and abandoned property, and leasing abandoned and confiscable lands, houses, and tenements in the Sixth Agency, and Wm S. Anderson of Wilmington in the County of New Hanover and State of North Carolina.

WITNESSETH, that in the pursuance of said Acts, and of the instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury, the said Agent, for and in behalf of the United States, agrees upon the terms hereinafter contained, to the lease of the said Wm S. Anderson from the 1st day of April, 1865, from month to month, either party hereto being at liberty to terminate this lease at the end of any month the date hereof, the following described premises: 

Store No 37 Market St.  abandoned by T. W. Brown Wilmington, N.C.

And the said Wm. S. Anderson hereby agrees to pay the Agent $25- Twenty five 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. 

D Heaton 
Supp. Spl. agent Tr Dept  SEAL.
Wm S. Anderson  SEAL.

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of -}
Chas P Prince
U H Ritch

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Transcription Notes:
There were some places that I was unsure of the text noted in [??]. On another page, D Heaton is listed as the Special Agent of the Treasury Dept., so I'm changing the "W" to "Tr" in his title.