Hyams v. Baer

Plaintiff sues on the following obligation:

“Shreveport, June 30,1864.

“ I, Marx Baer, acknowledge myself to be indebted to H. M. Hyams in the sum of twelve thousand dollars, being unpaid balance due to him by me for the purchase money of the tract of land in the parish of Bossier sold by said Hyams to me, béfore Thomas H. Pitts, recorder, this day.

“I have the privilege of paying the above sum in the new currency of the Confederate government, about to be issued, by paying eight thousand dollars in satisfaction of the same (but not in bills of one hundred thereof).

“In the meantime, the sum of…