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The State of Texas
County of Austin

Known all men that I W J Buchanan a Resident of the said State and County am held and firmly bound unto the Sub Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmens Bureau at Hempstead in the Penal sum of one Thousand for the payment of which duly and truly to be made I hereby bind myself my Heirs & Representatives
The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the above bound W J Buchanan has this day received as bound Apprentices the following named Negro Orphan Children to wit Fabias William Jeffrey Archibald Jean Albert & Catherine & Matilda now if the above bound W J Buchanan shall well and truly perform all the duties expressed in the Order binding said Apprentices to him then this obligation to be null and void otherwise to remain of full force and effect
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of December AD 1865
W.J. Buchanan

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