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Rh thereof, we shall be respectively at liberty, on giving our respective employers three calendar months' previous notice, to put an end to such contract and service by paying up the balance of the said sums then due by us for our passage. Witness

B. No. Memorandum of Agreement made this day between A. B., Esq., the immigration agent of this colony for the time being of the first part, C. D., a free immigrant, per ship, of the second part, and E. F., of , of the third part. The said C. D. engages to serve the said E. F. as a and otherwise to make generally useful for the term of two years, to be computed from the date hereof; and also to obey all the said E. F.'s or his or her overseer's or authorised agent's lawful and reasonable commands during that period; in consideration of which services the said E. F. doth hereby agree to pay the said C. D. wages, at the rate of  pounds  shillings (£) per annum, payable quarterly, to provide him (or her) with the understated rations weekly, and to defray the expense of his (or her) conveyance to the place at which he (or she) is to be employed, it being always understood that the said E. F. is to be at liberty to deduct from any wages that may accrue or become due to the said C. D., by eight equal quarterly deductions, the sum of £  being the full sum due by the said C. D. to the government of this colony for his or her passage thereto. And the said E. F. hereby agrees to pay to the said immigration agent immediately upon the execution of this memorandum the sum of £ being one-half of the amount of passage-money due by the said C. D. to the said government, and to pay the residue thereof to the said A. B. or to such other person as may then be the immigration agent for the time being, at the end of one year from the date hereof.

C.

We the undersigned or undernamed parties severally agree and bind urselvesourselves [sic], with the consent of all or any persons now in authority over us, to