A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 225

CHAPTER 154.
AN ACT to repeal, sections one hundred and nine- teen and one hundred and twenty of Ar tide four of the Code of Public Local Laws, relating to Auctioneers, and to enact a substitute therefor.	Passed Feb. 24, 1864.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That sections one hundred and nine- teen and one hundred and twenty of Article four of the Code of Public Local Laws, relating to auc- tioneers in the city of Baltimore, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that the following be and the same are hereby enacted as a substitute there- for:	Repealed.
. 119. Every auctioneer shall within twenty days after the first days of January, April, July and October, of the year for which he shall have been appointed, render to the Comptroller of the State a true and particular account, in writing, of the money or sums for which any goods, wares or merchandize, or other property of every kind, shall have been sold, at every sale since entering upon 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 by his partner or partners, or clerk, in cOn- sequence of , his absence; setting forth, also, the amount of; all goods, wares merchandize and other property sent or, entrusted to him, his partner or partners, for sale, and by him or them sold at auc- tion, and the days on which the same were sold, and particularizing the amount of the several du- ties chargeable on said sales.	To render ac- count to Comp- troller.
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 sin- cerely swear, that the amount now exhibited by me, and to which I have subscribed my name, con- tains a just and true account of all the goods, wares and merchandize, and property of every kind, sold or struck off by me at public sale, or sold at pri- vate sale, on the days of my public auctions, or 29	To take oath.