410
Each day's
sales.
Pay over to
Comptroller.
Auctioneer
to make re-
turn under
oath.
Oath.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
appointed, and in each and every year that he shall
hold and continue in the office and duty of such
Actioneer, render to the Comptroller of the City of
Baltimore a true and particular account in writing
of the money or sums of money for which any goods,
wares or merchandise, or other property of every
kind, shall have been sold at every sale since enter-
ing on the duties of his office, or since the last account
was rendered, of the amount of each day's sales and
the days -when sold, distinguishing the sales made by
him personally, or in his presence, and those made
lay his partner or partners, or clerk, in consequence
of his absence; setting forth, also, the amount of all
goods, wares, merchandise, and other property sent
or entrusted to him, his partner or partners, for
sales, and* him or them sold at auction, and the days
on which the same were sold, and particularizing
the amount of the several duties chargeable on said
sales, duplicate copies of which said accounts, prop-
erly sworn to as hereinafter required, shall be trans-
mitted to the Comptroller of the State, by every such
Auctioneer, within the said thirty days after the said
first days of January, April, July and October of the
year or years as aforesaid; and every Auctioneer
shall, within thirty days after rendering such account,
pay over to the said Comptroller of Baltimore city,
for the use of the State, subject to provisions herein-
after contained, all such sum or 'sums of money as
appear to be due from him to the State for duties,
according to law.
SEC. 120. The Auctioneer making such returns
shall, at the time of making the same, take before
some Justice of the Peace, or Judge of a Court of
record, the following oath: I, ————, do solemnly
and sincerely swear that the account now exhibited
by me, and to which I have subscribed rny name,
contains a just and true account of all the goods,
wares, and merchandise, and property of every kind,
sold or struck off by me at public sale, or sold at
private sale, on the days of my public auctions, or
sold or struck off as aforesaid by my co-partner or
co-partners, (if any there he,) or by others in my
name, or under my direction, and in my actual and
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