| 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: Contract for Labor
State of Alabama
County of Lowndes
Between Lawrence W. Vick, and the undersigned colored laborers, WITNESSETH, That I, Lawrence W. Vick, obligate myself to furnish to the undersigned colored laborers (3) Mules and farming implements and ninety acres of land to make a crop and give one third of the cotton; 1/3 of the corn; 1/3 of the fodder; and 1/3 of all other produce raised on my plantation; and to furnish the said laborers with provisions and they�re to pay market price at the end of the year and three (3) pounds of good pork or bacon; and one (1) peek 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 Lawrence W. Vick each day, from sunrise until sunset Sunday 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 fifty cents per day, for all time lost by us, and to observes and be governed by the general rules and regulations of the plantation.
Signed at Montgomery, Ala, the 10th day of February, 1868.
Tom Gilmer Lawrence W. Vick
Sarah Gilmer
Nancy Gilmer
Kane Gilmer
In addition to the above the women shall have one half of every Saturday for the purpose of washing clothing
Witness:
W.F. Anderson
Jm. Hendrix
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