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An Act to create the office on auditor of auction sales in and for the city of New Orleans, and for other purposes. 1839 98 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0213 and id is 1 raw text is: 98 SECT. S. Be it furthd enacted, &c., That the Amount of bonds of the municipalities, received by the treasurer in bonds of each exchange for those of the State, may be in such sums as said treasurer may require; but not for less than twenty- five thousand dollars each. SECT. 9. Be it further enacted, &c., That it shall Duty of coun. be the duty of the councils to transmit to the legislature, cils. on the second Monday in January of each year, a de- tailed statement of the condition of the sinking fund es- Duty of may. tablished under this act; and it shall be the duty of the or. mayor of New Orleans to examine and certify such state- ments, previous to transmitting them. Approved, March 18, 1839. No. 41.-AN ACT to create the office on auditor of auctiony sales in and for the city of New-Orleans, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in gen- eral assembly convened, That there shall be appointed Auditor ap- by the governor of the State, with the consent and ad- pointed. vice of the senate, immediately after the passage of this act, and in the first ten days of the month of February of every two years thereafter, a suitable and discreet person to be auditor on auction sales, and whose duty will be as follows: His duties. 1st. To require all auctioneers in the city of New-Or- leans to keep, in a book to be provided at the expense of said auctioneers and to be by the siid auditor numbered from the first to the last page, a correct and true account of all sales made by them from day to day, showing the date of each sale, the name or names of the seller and buyer, and the amount of said sale. 2d. To call, as often as he may deem proper, on any auctioneer, and require the production of any books or accounts kept by the said auctioneer in the ordinary course of his business as such. 3d. He shall examine and compare with the books the account to be rendered by all auctioneers as hereinafter specified, and certify the same under his hand; he shall copy into a book to be kept by him the account so ex- amined, and mention the day on which it was presented.

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