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considered as prima facie evidence against him-he shall forfeit all wages that may be due him at the time of leaving to his employer ; and should he refuse having voluntarily entered into an agreement to labor, or fail to comply with, and be governed by, such ordinary and reasonable rules as may be adopted by his employer for the systematic carrying on of his business, or fail in any way to be a good and faithful laborer according to his contract, or be wanting in due respect and obedience to his employer or his family, in the performance of his or their duties, he may be discharged, and obliged to remove his family from the premises of his employer, by application to the agent of this Bureau for the parish in which he resides. For Failure to be at the appointed place of labor at the usual hour of commencing work, unless in case of sickness, the employer may deduct twice the amount of money wages for the time lost, to compensate for clothing and rations, as well as lost time.
  XV. Planters and others employing labor, will, when the nature of their business requires that work be performed at night and on Sundays, during certain periods, distinctly specify in the contract that the employees agree to do such work, at such times as it may be required-the consideration for which must be distinctly stated in the agreement.
  XVI. No restraints or disabilities shall be imposed upon freedmen that are not imposed upon white men. They are amenable to the same laws, and can only be restrained in the free exercise of their rights and privileges, by reason of violation of the laws of the land, as made and provided for the government of white men.
  XVII. Should the agent deem it necessary, he will require the employer to give security that the requisite amount of provision to furnish the laborers with the specified ration shall be on hand on the plantation from month to month for issue or sale to the laborers and their families, as the terms of their contract may require. The rations and clothing specified in the order will be the minimum that will be regarded by the Bureau as sufficient food and comfortable clothing. 
  XVIII. Employers can adopt rules for systematizing the work on their plantations or elsewhere, which rules and regulations shall be read in the presence of the laborers previous to contracting, and which, if assented to, shall be made part of the agreement, and be binding upon both parties. And the parties may agree upon a system of fines for violation of these rules, which fines shall constitute a fund, to be distributed amongst the laborers who have not been delinquent, and in case there are non such, to be paid over to the agent of this Bureau, to be applied to the support of freedmen's schools.
  XIX. All crops and property on any plantation where laborers are employed, will be held to be covered by a lien against all other creditors to the extent of the wages due employees, and such lien will follow such crops and property in any and all hands until such labor is fully paid and satisfied. 
  XX. For the purpose of reimbursing to the United Stated some portion of the