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board shall be defrayed at the expense of my employer or his agent or 

 representative. 



6. That my employer shall further pay me eight dollars in order to 

 enable me to provide necessaries for the said voyage ; and further, 



7. That he shall provide me with four pairs of trowsers and a coverlet, 

 the same not to exceed four dollars, making with the preceding the sum 

 of 12 dollars, which 12 dollars I bind myself to repay to the order of the 

 Colonization Society, by means of a monthly instalment of one dollar paid 

 by the person with whom my labour shall be contracted for, but upon the 

 further condition that no other deduction whatever shall be made from 

 my said monthly pay. 



I hereby declare that, in conformity with the preceding paragraph, I 

 have received by way of cash advance and in clothing the equivalent of 

 the said 12 dollars, which, as already stipulated, shall be repaid by me 

 at the Havannah, 



I also declare that I am perfectl}' satisfied with the aforesaid payment, 

 although I am aware, and it is well known, that the free labourers, as also 

 the negro slaves, in the island of Cuba, are paid a much larger wage. 

 But I consider myself recompensed for this diJEFerence by the other ad- 

 vantages which my employer binds himself to secure to me, and which are 

 set forth in the present contract. And in witness that we on either side 

 engage that the provisions hereof shall be dvdy and faithfully carried out, 

 we subscribe on that behalf two copies of similar purport this day of 



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For the Colonization Society, 



Signature of emigrant, 



