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the time from sun rise to sunset, allowing 2 hours from 1st April to 1st October and 1 hour from 1st October to 1st April, during the day for meals; (Married women and women with children shall not be required to labor more than half the time of able bodied laborers; nor to receive over half supply of rations unless by special agreements,) without extra compensation for such additional labor. No farm or Plantation work to be required of the laborers on Sundays; and before such contract shall be binding, both contracting parties must sign a formal contract in duplicate and witnessed by the local authorized Superintendent (No. )

8. All Freedmen without visible means of support for himself and family, who shall neglect or refuse to make a contract for labor for one year, before the first of January of each year, shall be arrested by order of the local Superintendent and confined in solitary confinement (and supplied only with bread and water), and not released from imprisonment until a contract for labor for him, not to expire before the 1st day of January thereafter, shall have been made and signed.

9.  Any Freedman who shall abandon his plan of labor or fail to perform properly and faithfully the duties he has contracted to perform, or for other bad conduct shall be reported to the nearest local Superintendent, who shall immediately institute an examination of the case reported, and decide on its merits; and should such Superintendent determine and decide, that the Freedman has been guilty of improper or unfaithful conduct, such Freedman shall be immediately placed in solitary confinement (and supplied only with bread and water) for such length of time as may be determined on, not however to excuse the term of his contract, and during the period of such abuses

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