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evening. I think if I am not mistaken it was on Friday evening Mr Tracy called me up to the house and said he wanted to see me. I went up took a seat and sat there talking for a while and he got up went to the desk & took out a piece of paper & said Mr. Anderson there is our agreement. I took the paper read it over and said that it was entirely different from the bonds. I took the paper thinking I would keep it for a while and show it to my father and my securities and see whether they would think it was right that I should sign it. I took it up and showed it to them they didn't approve of it and said if they was me they would not sign it. I then brought it back to Mr. Tracy and told him my objections to it & that if he would alter it to any thing like the bonds I would sign it that I would sign any reasonable agreement. He then asked me what I objected to so seriously in that agreement. I told him there were a few things in it which I objected to — the trespassing of the dam, the requiring five dollars advance from any man getting ice from the dam, the keeping anyone from crossing the low bottom across which there was path and it was impossible to keep persons from riding across [[strikethrough]]it[[/strikethrough]] there unless there was a fence — and that I was to forfeit $200 if I violated any of these things and be dispossessed at 60 days notice. He then told me that if I objected so seriously to that he would make some alterations in it. I did not see the writing anymore until next day. When I saw it again but there was nothing left out but the getting ice off the dam. That was all the alteration that I saw. At that time (I think it was that day) he got the bonds and said that his mother said she that she would rather that I would get my aunt to go on the bonds, that I should take them up 

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