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Memorandum Of An Agreement

Made this 11 day of November 1864 between Wm G. Brownlow Asst 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 Special Agency, and Isaac Joseph of Knoxville in the County of Knox 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 Isaac Joseph from the 1 day of October 1864, 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: 

A. House & lot on the corner of Hill & Henley Strts, and on the West of Isaac Josephs present residence & opposite to Wm Hays property abandoned by Wm Swans heirs

And the said Isaac Joseph hereby agrees to pay the said Agent Eight 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 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 }
Jno. R. Henry

I Joseph [L.S.]
Wm G. Brounlow [L.S.]
Asst. Spl. Agt. Trsy Dept
By Jno. R. Henry