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Wanted — Negroes.

--Wanted to hire Negroes; (free of slaves.) Laborers, Mechanics and Teamsters, for service on the Peninsula on the following terms and conditions:

If hire by the month (not less than six months) fifteen collars per month will be paid for laborers; with rations, comfortable quarters and Medical attendance free.

If hired by the year one hundred dollars per paid quarterly; with rations, comfortable quarters and Medical attendance free, and usual allowance of clothing.

For Team and Mechanics twenty dollars will be paid; and rations, comfortable quarters and Medical attendance free.

The Government will be responsible for the value of these Negroes, if captured by the enemy or allowed to to them, or killed in action.

In all other respects the contract of hire will be bject to and conformable to the Laws of Virginia.

For further particulars apply at the office of Hector Davis Franklin street, near Wall, from 10 o'clock, A. M. to 4 P. M, until the 18th inst.

B. Bloomfield,
Quarter master General of the Peninsula. ja 10--8t*

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