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has been called to certain contracts which had been approved by Bureau Officers in which, a sweeping clause had been inserted, which gave the employer the right to all wages due, or interest in the crop in the event that the laborer failed to carry out in every particular the provisions of the contract- I doubt very much if this rule was enforced, if a single contract in the State would escape nullification.- A laborer may by faithful and industrious labor and by strict economy, save out of his years labor say $100. upon which he proposes to live during the winter months. does it look like justice to compel him to forfeit that and thus deprive him and his family of his hard earnings, because in his ignorance of the law or because of some trifling impropriety or shortcoming, he is made to appear as having 

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