| 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:State of Alabama
County of Elmore
Between H.H. Hall & W.M. Moore, and the undersigned colored laborers, Witnesseth, That I We, H.H. Hall & W.M. Moore, obligate myself to give to the undersigned colored laborers, One half of every Saturday and one fourth of the cotton, one acre of the corn and fodder and to furnish the said laborers with land, stock, and feed for same, farming utensils, and tools necessary to make a crop NS 3 � pounds of good pork or bacon; and one pack[?] of corn meal, each, per week until the first day of January 1869.
For and in consideration of the above, We, the undersigned colored laborers, obligate ourselves to labor faithfully for H.H. Hall & W.M. Moore each day from course until sunset Sunday and half of Saturday excepted, until the first day of January 1869, working according to, and obeying all reasonable orders given by the employer or his agent. We also obligate ourselves to pay 20 cent per day, for all time lost by us *when lost by sickness or a good cause but 75 cent when lost otherwise* and to observe and be governed by the general rules and regulations of the plantation.
Signed at Montgomery, Ala. The 21st day of March, 1868.
W.H. Moore
H.H. Hall
Issac Hall Gilbert Ware
Deck Johnson George Johnson
John Bell Mitchell Woods
Moses Walton Peter Slauson
Jae Mitchell Winnie Slauson
Henry Zimmerman Jack Slauson
Anderson Moulton Julia Neght[?]
Caralice Johnson
Charles Hall
Titus Hall
Steve Hall
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