Contract Between a Miner and a Store
Messrs. H.H. Ashley & Co., No. _________
Gentlemen:
I wish to purchase goods from your store
from time to time, on credit. I am at
present in the employ of the lessee and
contractor, under the receivers of the
Lehigh–Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., and agree
that you may collect the price of all goods
which you shall furnish me or my family, or
which you have already furnished, from the
same company, their receivers, lessee, or
contractor, or any other party employing
me, out of the amounts they now owe me, or
may hereafter be indebted to me, and that
your receipt to my employers shall be a
full discharge of such indebtedness for
the amounts collected.
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Witness__________________
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We accept the proposition of__________________
as above made, and agree to give him credit
on the terms and conditions therein proposed,
to such amounts, and for so long as we may
deem expedient.
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Witness__________________
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From Pennsylvania, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Annual Report, 1878-79, Part III, Industrial Statistics, 380.