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Duplicate
No 61
No. 24.

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

Made this 23rd 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 R.B. Powers [[strikethrough]] Jno [[/strikethrough]] 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 Powers [[strikethrough]] Jno [[/strikethrough]] 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:

34 ft of Ground commencing on the 14th foot from wall of Thompson Anderson's lot on the North side of Spring street, betwen lots 161 & 11, formerly owned by Thompson Anderson or C.D. Eliott.

And the said R.B. Powers [[strikethrough]] Jno [[/strikethrough]]  hereby agrees to pay the said Agent Forty two & 50/100 --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 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)
Sup Spec Agt D. of T.
R.B. Powers (SEAL)

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