This Indenture, made this 14 day of October 1912 between The New York Foundling Hospital, a Corporation of the State of New York, party of the first part, and Valentine Kampa of St. Cloud, Minnesota, party of the second part:

Whereas Bennie Lang a male child ...was heretofore...received and taken, and now is under its care and custody, and has now, in the judgment of its Board of Managers, arrived at a suitable age for the said Corporation to indenture.

Now, therefore, this Indenture witnesseth, that the said party of the first part ... do hereby put, place and indenture the said Bennie Lang unto the said party of the second part as his own child in every respect until the said Bennie Lang shall arrive at the age of Eighteen years, to live with, and be employed by the said party of the second part in and about his house and household, and ...to be instructed therein ... during all of which time the said child shall reside with and obey said party of the second part, and according to [his] power, will and ability shall honestly orderly and obediently in all things demean and behave [him]self toward the party of the second part.

...If said child is returned to the party of the first part when [he] shall reach the age of Eighteen years, then the party of the second part will give to said child a new Bible, a complete suit of new clothes, together with all those [he] shall then have in use, and an outfit of at least the same in every respect as their own child.