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Triplicate
No. 59.
No. 24.
LEASE FOR HOUSES AND TENEMENTS ONLY.
MEMORANDUM OF AN AGREEMENT,

Made this 27th day of January 1865 between B.R. Banner Sup 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 First Agency, and Jacob Meir of Nashville in the County of Davidson and State of Tennessee

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 Jacob Meir from the First day of January 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:

17 feet commencing on the 32nd foot of ground from Wall of Thompson Anderson lot in Spring between lots 161 & 11, formerly owned by Thompson Anderson or C.D. Elliott
Conditionaly that the said Meir cannot rent the said pen without [[agt?]] consent

And the said Jacob Meir hereby agrees to pay the said Agent Twenty one & 25/100 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, at the office of said agt 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 of other unavoidable injury excepted.

BR Banner (SEAL)
Jacob Meir (SEAL)
Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of
N.D. Oviatt
By Concannon 
Depty