Before the Notary Public Adolphe Boudousquié, New Orleans, appeared A. Cyprien Trémoulet, acting for the three Jourdans, residents of Saint James Parish. Also present was James D. Denegre, President of the Citizens' Bank, acting in accordance with the resolution passed by the bank directors at their December 10th meeting. Those present declared that the Jourdans were each owners of an undivided third of the following: 1) a sugar plantation in Saint James Parish, and two other surveyed sections of land; 2) fifty-seven slaves (names and ages given); and 3) 464 shares of capital funds stock of the Citizen's Bank, payment for which was guaranteed, along with payment for a loan of $10,337.60, by a mortgage given in 1834 by Noël Jourdan.
