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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

to promote and encourage honesty, by presenting to those on the plantation the strongest motives to integrity in themselves, and the detection of crimes in others - such an obligation, on the part of the laborers to an unprincipled employer might possibly furnish an excuses for injustice - but where there is a purpose to defraud the ignorant or dependant - a pretext will be more readily and conveniently found - while it is to the upright and humane employer a partial safeguard against plundering - 

That feature in the tenth clause which charges the laborer with sick time all over one day - is in conformity with the rights of all parties who are able to contract, and is an important consideration in the measure of compensation.  The products of the soil in this region of country demand months of continuous and uninterrupted labor - patient persevering labor - and those who share in the avails of the plantation, as the freedmen here do this year, should equally share the burdens of production - some frequently absenting themselves from the