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X. Captains Coffin, and Lee, and Lieu'ts' O'Beirne and Touson, Ass't Pro: Marshalls will open intelligence offices severally, at Yorktown, Fort Magruder, Hampton, and Newport News, for the purpose of registering the names of all those who may apply for work and those who may wish to hire labor.
Contracts will be drawn up between the Employer and Laborer, in which the time, compensation, and kind of labor required will be specified. This contract shall be signed and witnessed in the presence of the Ass't Pro: Marshall, by both parties. The failure of either Employer or laborer, to perform his part of the Contract, shall be accounted a mis-demeanor and shall be punished by fine and imprisonment

By order of
Bvt. Brig: Genl. BC. Ludlow
W,D,Green
Assistant Adjutant General

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