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1865 Feby 19th 1865

The agreement with the blacks for the present year.

They are to have there provisions found them & receive

out of there wages enough of Money along through the year

as will pay & furnish themselves in cloathing & is to work

the year & is to receive the hire in full by the end of

the year. All the lost time they are to not count it in

the time of the hire, & is not to quit & leave the farm

until there times are out, unless agreed for them to do so.

The amt of there hire are hereafter expressed and under-

stood each on his separate amount as stated in the follow-

ing pages in this book & if any one should quit before the

year is out they are not to receive any pay for what they

may have done, unless it may be agreed for them to do so,

& 30 days is counted a month

H. Porter