| Summary: | Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands reviewed labor contract between landowners and Montgomery County, Alabama freedmen. This record has been transcribed as follows: Contracted[?] [???] Ala[?]
Sate of Ala Jan 16th/68
County of Lowndes
Entered into letters[?]
Chas Orun[?] and the assigned[?] names[?] [???] that I Chas Orun obligate myself to furnish the undersigned name with (15)[sic] fifteen acres of land and[?] of as mule and all farming impliments[sic] necessary to make a farm.
Thus[?] and in consideration of the above I the undersigned name obligate myself to give to Chas Orun one (1) bale of cotton and one (1) hundred bushels of corn and to give to said Orun one half of the fodder that is made and also obligated to pay said Orun the value of the rations consumed by us at the end of the year and to return all implements used by us in as good order as when received.
Chas Orun
Kinch Hall
Mark
The employers agree to furnish one-hundred and sixty acres of land more or less of which one-hundred are to be planted in cotton and sixty in corn.
Five mules and feed for some farming utensils and repairs for same necessary to cultivate the crop.
One acre of land for such laborers free of charge also house room and fire-wood.
The laborers agree to feed themselves to cultivate the crop in such manner as to compare favorably with the crops of the neighborhood. Also a potato patch of two acres more or less. For the exclusive benefit of the employees.
For and in consideration of a faithful compliance with the above contract the laborers shall receive one-third of the of the[sic] crop of proceeds[sic] corn, fodder, peas and cotton made and gathered on the land cultivated by them. It is furthermore understood and agreed by both the employers and laborers that the employers are authorized to give a lien on the entire crop for the purpose of procuring[?] supplies and *received by us* advances necessary to carry on said plantation[sic] *one hundred and sixty acres of land*, it is also understood and agreed that should a laborer leave before the crop is gathered he or she shall forfeit all interest in the crop.
In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names this 26th of March 1868,
Employers Fred H. Cobb
Jno [John] E. Burch
Witurpes[?]
J. N. Mitchell
L. A. Steed
Laborers
Daniel Cobb Sr
Mark
Daniel Cobb Jr
Mark
George Waller
Mark
Collins Judkins
Mark
Robert Judkins
Mark
Alek Burton
Mark
Benjamin Zebel[?]
Mark
Jackson Davenport
Mark
Jackson Wadkins
Mark
Rose Cobb
Mark
Jane Wadkins
Mark
Eliza Tucker
Mark
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