28 March 1840
John McAninch and
Henderson Dishough	Registered the 30th day of March 1840
Articles of Agreement

Articles of copartnership entered into between John McAninch and Henderson Dishough ...
John McAninch and Henderson Dishough
[pg.365] having purchased equally and jointly of John Amis and A. G. Underwood a steam
sawmill and agreed to own the same to the equal advantage of each and both of us do hereby
further agree that said mill is to be put in operation and a grist mill added to the same if [we do?]
prosper and both continued in operation so long as we may agree each one paying an equal
proportion of the expenses incident to putting and continuing the same in operation and at the
end of each and every year from this time to share equally and alike in the profits if any a
distribution of said profits to take place yearly and at no other time It is hereby expressly
further understood and agreed that neither of us is to take anything from said copartnership
only annually as aforesaid except to defray the expenses of the said mill as aforesaid unless
by mutual consent it should be hereafter otherwise agreed
It is further agreed that said Henderson Dishough is to Superintend the operation of said mill
or mills and to receive as a compensation therefore annually five hundred dollars from said
joint partnership and said Dishough hereby binds himself [properly?] to attend to and
Superintend the operation of said mill or mills, any time lost by said Dishough to be deducted
from said sum proportionally
Given under our hands and seals this the 28th day of March 1840
	H. Dishough {seal}
	John McAninch {seal}

State of Tennessee Giles County
Personally appeared before me Edward D. Jones Clerk of the County Court of Giles County
the within named Henderson Dishough and John McAninch with whom I am personally
acquainted and who acknowledged that they executed the within covenant or agreement for
the purposes therein contained
Witness my hand at office this 29th day of March A.D. 1840	E.D. Jones Clerk
Recorded 30 March 1840, Giles County Deed Book O pg.364

Transcribed from Deeds, v. O-P, 1839-1842, TSLA film EX 19936, LDS film 968,859

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