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accompanying contract.  The payments to the Freedmen will be made at the end of the year or if prefered or interested upon the 1st of September and January - One plantation blacksmith is needed for whom twenty dolls per month will be paid - with the privilege of using the tools and taking in any work for himself to be done in his own time for which he will recure all the compensation.-

The plantation is a remarkably healthy one - The lands fertile The water good fuel is abundant and without charge and the laborers will be comfortably lodged and a hospital with suitable nurse provided for the sick -

McQueen McIntosh.

N.B. If prefered by the Freedmen I would pay them in kind out of the crop, although money compensation is the more easily adjusted.
M. M.