Look to Your Contracts

Farmers and others employing freedmen for the present year should not fail to have the proper papers filed in the office of the Agent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, as the same laws are now in force that contracts were made under in 1866, and all those persons who fail to comply with the regulations, and who assume the responsibility of employing negroes without having the contract duly witnessed in the office the Agent, will most assuredly render themselves liable to a fine of no inconsiderable amount. Parties interested are hereby notified that the Agent for this county, John D. USSERY, Esq., is ready, either in person, or by proxy, at his office, in Bolivar, to discharge the responsibilities resting upon him. Look to your contracts, and save trouble in the future.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 05 Jan. 1867, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.