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NARA 162

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No. 24

LEASE FOR HOUSES AND TENEMENTS.

Memorandum of an Agreement made this 1st day of May 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 Mrs. C. Young of Wilmington in the County of New Hanover and State of North Carolina

WITNESSETH, that in 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 lease to the said Mrs C. Young from the 1st day of May, 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:

Dwelling on 2nd St between Nun and Church St Block 101, abandoned by Jerry King Wilmington No. Ca

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And the said Mrs C. Young hereby agrees to pay the said Agent 10,00) ten 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.

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of -}   

D Heaton SEAL
Supg Special Agt Dept
Pr Chas. C. Graves

Mrs C. Young SEAL

J.G. Randolph
A.A. Hartsfield

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