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MEMORANDUM OF AN AGREEMENT

MADE this 6th day of July 1865, between Jno. B. 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 Albert S. Hudiburge of 1st Civil District in the County of Knox and State of Tennessee.

Witness, 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 Albert S. Hudiburge from the 6th day of July 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:

To wit a Small Wooden House & Lot located in Town of Knoxville Tenn Adjoining Lands of E S Blackwell & others Abandonded By the Wm Swan Heirs

And the said A.S. Hudiburgh 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 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 } Jno. R. Henry

A.S. Hudiburg {seal}
Jno. B Brownlow {seal}
Asst. Spl. Agt. Try. Dept. 
By Jno. R. Henry

Transcription Notes:
Hudiburg spelled some places with an H at the end, and others without an H