| 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: MEMORANDA OF A CONTRACT
MADE THIS first[?] DAY OF April 1868, BETWEEN J. F. Jacobs and Laborers on his Plantation for the year 1868.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. The laborers are to be furnished, in addition to the wages,, a fall supply of good and wholesome provisions, that is to say, at least three and one-half pounds of bacon, or its equivalent, and one peck of corn meal per week; also, with comfortable quarters and fuel, and with such medical attention and medicines as are ordinarily furnished on a plantation; but all provisioned furnished to non-workers, and all physician�s fees shall be charged to laborers at actual cost. The laborers shall be treated kindly, and dealt with justly and honorably in all matters of business or otherwise.
2. They are to work each day of the week (Sundays excepted) the full number of hours provided by law, unless tasks are given.
3. Deductions shall be made from the wages of the laborers for time lost and rations consumed in such lost time at the rate of the said wages and actual cost of rations.
4. There shall be furnished each head of a family, or single laborer, one acre of land for cultivation, in extra time, and the necessary teams and implements to cultivate it. On this land they will be expected to raise what vegetables they may need, but otherwise they may cultivate as they please.
5. Each Sunday one laborers shall remain at home, by turn to perform necessary labor, and if any one shall fail in his turn, the time shall be charged him.
6. Any property lost or destroyed, or permanently injured through neglect or carelessness, is to be charged against the one who loses, destroys, or injures it.
7. Laborers are to give prompt and cheerful obedience to the rules of the plantation, and to the orders of the employer or his agent. They are, also, to maintain order and peace upon the plantation, and be courteous and civil to the employer and all members of his family.
8. The laborers shall receive the monthly wages or allowance set opposite their respective names, and the undersigned J. F. Jacobs employer agree that settlement shall be made with the laborers on or 10th day of Each month, 1869.
We, the undersigned, employer and laborer, mutually agree and bind ourselves to observe the above terms and conditions in good faith, and abide by them as the final reference in any case of misunderstanding.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto affixed our names, this 10th day of April 1868.
Sgd J. F. Jacobs employer
Henry a Campbell $10.00 per month
Charles Fuller
Mark
WITNESS:
W.F. Anderson
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