The sales will commence on the 25th.

inst.
at 9 o'clock A.M., and will continue from day to day until the whole is sold.[41] Good endorsed notes will be taken in payment, payable the 1st.
of January, 1807.

Also [for sale] the above mentioned schooner _Reliance_, burthen about 60 tons, completely fitted for an African voyage." [Footnote 39: W.E.B.DuBois, _Suppression of the African Slave Trade_, pp.
87-90.

The acts of 1804 and 1805 are printed in B.P.Poore, _Charters and Constitutions_ (Washington, 1877), I, 691-697.] [Footnote 40: _Louisiana Gazette_, Feb.

28, 1806.] [Footnote 41: _Louisiana Gazette_, July 4, 1806.] Upon the prohibition of the African trade at large in 1808, the slave demand of the sugar parishes was diverted to the Atlantic plantation states where it served to advertise the Louisiana boom.