Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

Partly-Printed Autograph Document.

(NEW ORLEANS -- CARGO MANIFEST).

Partly-printed AD, 1p, 8½" X 6", New Orleans, LA, 1842 July 1. Fine. Item #17454

Partly-printed "Manifest of the Cargo of the Flat Boat No. 47," listing a cargo of 14 casks of bacon, 75 kegs of lard and 5 tons of bacon, being taxed by the city $2.34. On the verso is a printed "Extract from an Ordinance passed by the Council of the Second Municipality of New-Orleans, June 21, 1842." Interesting bit of pre-Civil War Louisiana maritime history.

Price: $65.00