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secured by lien, or personal security, are deemed to be sufficient, and all that are practicable.

IV. But as many persons have not yet learned the binding force of a contract, and that freedom does not mean living without labor, it is further ordered, that when any employer, under this order, shall make oath before a Justice of the Peace, acting as an Agent of this Bureau, and having local jurisdiction, that one of his employees has been absent from labor without a good cause for a longer period than one day, or for an aggregate of time greater than Five [[strikethrough]] three [[/strikethrough]] days in one month, the Justice authorities shall proceed against such person as a vagrant.

V. Freedmen committed as vagrants may be set to work on roads or at other labor, by the County authorities or municipal authorities which provide their support, or they may be turned over to an Agent of this Bureau.

VI. No contract with be approved which does not expire on or before the first day day of January 1867.

Wager Swayne
Brig. Genl. and Ass.t Commissioner.

Executive Department
Montgomery Alabama Sept 1st 1865

The foregoing order is approved, and will be recognized by all judicial and ministerial officers, in this State, in their administration of justice as Agent of the Bureau of

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