that in case said Jessee Jackson should be discharged for improper conduct of any kind, he shall forfeit such an amount of wages as the Agent of the Bureau may determine. It is agreed and understood that the aforesaid Jessee Jackson, employee of the second part is to find his own provisions, or that is the said Banks is to furnish him and family with provisions and he to pay said Banks for them out of his wages at the end of the year, at the market prices, at the time the provisions are sold to him. It is agreed that said Banks shall furnish the said Jessee Jackson and his family with a house to live in for the year that is until the twenty-fifth day of December 1867. For and in consideration of the above agreement and the faithful compliance thereof, the said William H. Banks agreed and binds himself to pay over to the said Jessee Jackson or his heirs or legal executors or administrators the sum of five hundred dollars in currency on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. It is further agreed that the said Jessee Jackson shall labor faithfully during the year, six days in each week, and that he will in no instance leave the plantation on which he is to work, without the express permission of William H. Banks, his Employer, or Mr. Jobe Gamble, his agent, except on Sundays and in such case to return early on Monday morning following. Witnesses Mr. Banks Burrett Sanders [his X mark] William H Banks Jessee Jackson [his X mark]