commutation to loyal owners of equalization bounty bill........... forms in cases of colored troops... 504 QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS in R forms... 517 to correspondents 517 RECONSTRUCTION.. 568 money and arrears.. 520 572 claims of heirs for arrears, etc..... 521 525 FORMS AND REGULATIONS relating to V.-The Fourteenth Constitution- 526 soldiers not discharged.. 526 official instructions for preparing receipt in full of all demands...... 169 claims ....... order of payments.. 527 receipt for money paid for another. 169 application.proof,and authentication 527 release of all demands.. 160 administration 528 release in pursuance of an award... 170 mode of payment.. 529 mutual general release by indenture 170 mode of presenting claims.. 171 forms.... 529 release of a proviso or condition. . 171 release of a trust.... 172 payment of prisoners of war...... 529 rules in settlement of claims due to WELLS' EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER, AND UNITED STATES FORM BOOK. A COMPLETE GUIDE IN ALL MATTERS OF LAW AND BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS, FOR EVERY STATE IN THE UNION. AGREEMENTS. ALL Agreements are null and void at the end of one year from their dates, unless the contract, or some memorandum thereof, stating the consideration, be in writing and signed by the parties by whom the agreement is made. All leases expire at the end of one year, unless there is a written agreement, stating the consideration, for a longer period. All agreements expire at the end of one year unless they explicitly state that they are for a longer period. Signatures signed with a lead pencil, or by making a mark, if the parties make them cannot write, if done in the presence of one or more witnesses, are good in law. But when a pen can be had, it should be used in preference, to obviate the possibility of legal quibbling. Agreements which fail to show that they were made for a con ideration-that is, without a fair or reasonable sum of money, or property to the value of money—are void in law. Every agreement should distinctly specify the time within which, or at the end of which, its conditions shall be complied with. Every instrument is better in law with a seal than without one. General Form of Agreement. THIS AGREEMENT, made this first day of May, one thousand eight nundred and sixty, between JOHN DEAN, of the city of Hartford, in the county of Hartford, and state of Connecticut, of the first part, and JAMES GOOD of the village of Windsor, in said county and state, of the second part WITNESSETH, That the said JOHN DEAN, in consideration of the covenants on the part of the party of the second part, hereinafter contained, doth covenant and agree to and with the said JAMES GOOD, that [here insert the agreement on the part of John Dean.] And the said JAMES GOOD, in consideration of the covenants on the part of the party of the first part, doth covenant and agree to and with the said JOHN DEAN, that [here insert the agreement on the part of James Good.] In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the day and year first above written. Sealed and delivered, in presence of JOHN STOUT, ISAAC FOWLER. JOHN DEAN. [L.8. JAMES GOOD. [L.S.] [When required this clause may be inserted :] And it is further agreed, between the parties hereto, that the party that shall fail to perform this agreement on his part, will pay to the other the full sum of fifty dollars, as liquidated, fixed, and settled damages. Agreement for the Purchase of a House and Lot. MEMORANDUM of an agreement made this 10th day of July, in the year 1860, between JOHN ROWLEY, Printer, of the city of New York, and CARLTON BRYANT, Merchant, of the same city, witnesseth --That the said JOHN ROWLEY agrees to sell, and the said CARLTON BRYANT agrees to purchase, for the price or consideration of dollars, the house and lot known and distinguished as number ninety-nine, in street, in the said city of New-York. The possession of the property is to be delivered on the first day of May next, when twenty-five per cent. of the purchase-money is to be paid in cash, and a bond and mortgage on the premises, bearing seven per cent. interest, payable in five years (such interest payable quarterly), is to be executed for the balance of the purchase |