8th Said Laborers agree that when splitting Rails, the Task for each shall be one hundred rails per day of average size, and when employed [hoeing] the task shall be such as the Contractors and Foremen determine upon. 9th Said Laborers further agree that if any or either of them shall leave the plantation before the end of the year, he or she shall only be paid at the rate of four dollars per month for the time they have actually worked, all lost time to be deducted from above payment, and all after claims on the crop banned. In the event of any of the laborers voluntarily leaving the plantation before the expiration of the time contracted for or shall fail in the performance of any duty herein specified and provided for, it shall be lawful for the said S. Sumter and D. Carn to dismiss said Laborer with such an amount that is coming to them as the agent of the Bureau may direct. 10th Said Laborers further contract that they and their families will be orderly and respectful in their behaviour and promptly obey all orders given by the said S. Sumter, D. Carn, or their agent. 11th It is understood that each Laborer whose name is here unto signed, only contracts for himself and family and that this contract shall be in force from its date until the 25th day of December 1867. In testimony where we have hereunto set our hands this day and year above written.