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Duplicate
No. 60.
No. 24.

LEASE FOR HOUSES AND TENEMENTS ONLY.
MEMORANDUM OF AN AGREEMENT,

Made this 28th day of January 1865 between B.R. Bonner 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 Barney Hines 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 Barney Hines 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:

One brick dwelling house on the right hand side of Cedar between Belvile and Cumberland streets formerly owned by Berry Leake
Conditionly that the said Hines cannot charge the tenant of the log house in rear, rent

And the said Barney Hines hereby agrees to pay the said Agent Forty 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 agent 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.

B R Bonner (SEAL)
Bernerd Hynes (SEAL)

Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of--
Charles Davis

By Concannon
Depty