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£30 on colonial Negroes. 1717, " " £40 in addition to existing
duties. 1719, " " £10 on Africans, £30 on colonial Negroes. The Act of
1717, etc., was repealed. 1721, " " £10 on Africans, £50 on colonial
Negroes. 1722, " " " " " " " 1740, " " £100 on Africans, £150 on
colonial Negroes. 1751, " " £10 " " £50 " " 1760, Act prohibiting
importation (Disallowed). 1764, Duty Act: additional duty of £100.
1783, " " £3 on Africans, £20 on colonial Negroes. 1784, " " " " £5 " "
1787, Art and Ordinance prohibiting importation.
[9] Cf. Hewatt, _Historical Account of S. Carolina and Georgia (1779),
I. 120 ff.; reprinted in S.C. Hist. Coll._ (1836), I. 108 ff.
[10] Cooper, Statutes at Large of S. Carolina, II. 153.
[11] The text of the first act is not extant: cf. Cooper, Statutes, III. 56.
For the second, see Cooper, VII. 365, 367.
[12] Cf. Grimké, Public Laws of S. Carolina, p. xvi, No. 362; Cooper,
Statutes, II. 649. Cf. also _Governor Johnson to the Board of Trade_,
Jan. 12, 1719-20; reprinted in Rivers, Early History of S. Carolina
(1874), App., xii.

[13] Cooper, Statutes, VII. 368.
[14] Ibid., III. 56.
[15] From a memorial signed by the governor, President of the Council,
and Speaker of the House, dated April 9, 1734, printed in Hewatt,
_Historical Account of S. Carolina and Georgia_ (1779), II. 39;
reprinted in S.C. Hist. Coll. (1836), I. 305-6. Cf. N.C. Col. Rec., II. 421.
[16] Cooper, Statutes, III. 556; Grimké, Public Laws, p. xxxi, No. 694.
Cf. Ramsay, History of S. Carolina, I. 110.
[17] Cooper, Statutes, III. 739.
[18] The text of this law has not been found. Cf. Burge, Commentaries
on Colonial and Foreign Laws, I. 737, note; Stevens, History of
Georgia, I. 286. See instructions of the governor of New Hampshire,
June 30, 1761, in Gordon, _History of the American Revolution_, I.
letter 2.
[19] Cooper, Statutes, IV. 187.
[20] This duty avoided the letter of the English instructions by making
the duty payable by the first purchasers, and not by the importers. Cf.
Cooper, Statutes, IV. 187.
[21] Grimké, Public Laws, p. lxviii, Nos. 1485, 1486; Cooper, Statutes,
VII. 430.
[22] Cf. N.C. Col. Rec., IV. 172.
[23] Martin, Iredell's Acts of Assembly, I. 413, 492.
[24] The following is a summary of the legislation of the colony of
Virginia; details will be found in Appendix A:--
1710, Duty Act: proposed duty of £5. 1723, " " prohibitive (?). 1727, "
" " 1732, " " 5%. 1736, " " " 1740, " " additional duty of 5%. 1754, " " "
" 5%. 1755, " " " " 10% (Repealed, 1760). 1757, " " " " 10% (Repealed,

1761). 1759, " " 20% on colonial slaves. 1766, " " additional duty of
10% (Disallowed?). 1769, " " " " " " 1772, " " £5 on colonial slaves.
Petition of Burgesses vs. Slave-trade. 1776, Arraignment of the king in
the adopted Frame of Government. 1778, Importation prohibited.
[25] Letters of Governor Spotswood, in _Va. Hist. Soc. Coll._, New
Ser., I. 52.
[26] Hening, Statutes at Large of Virginia, IV. 118, 182.
[27] Ibid., IV. 317, 394; V. 28, 160, 318; VI. 217, 353; VII. 281; VIII.
190, 336, 532.
[28] Ibid., V. 92; VI. 417, 419, 461, 466.
[29] Ibid., VII. 69, 81.
[30] Ibid., VII. 363, 383.
[31] Ibid., VIII. 237, 337.
[32] Miscellaneous Papers, 1672-1865, in _Va. Hist. Soc. Coll., New
Ser., VI. 14; Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries_, I.
Part II. App., 51.
[33] Hening, Statutes, IX. 112.
[34] Importation by sea or by land was prohibited, with a penalty of
£1000 for illegal importation and £500 for buying or selling. The Negro
was freed, if illegally brought in. This law was revised somewhat in
1785. Cf. Hening, Statutes, IX. 471; XII. 182.
[35] The following is a summary of the legislation of the colony of
Maryland; details will be found in Appendix A:--
1695, Duty Act: 10s. 1704, " " 20s. 1715, " " " 1717, " " additional duty
of 40s. (?). 1754, " " " " 10s., total 50s. 1756, " " " " 20s. " 40s. (?).

1763, " " " " £2 " £4. 1771, " " " " £5 " £9. 1783, Importation
prohibited.
[36] Compleat Coll. Laws of Maryland (ed. 1727), p. 191; Bacon, Laws
of Maryland at Large, 1728, ch. 8.
[37] Bacon, Laws, 1754, ch. 9, 14.
[38] Ibid., 1763, ch. 28.
[39] Laws of Maryland since 1763: 1771, ch. 7. Cf. Ibid.: 1777, sess.
Feb.-Apr., ch. 18.
[40] Ibid.: 1783, sess. Apr.-June, ch. 23.
[41] "The last importation of slaves into Maryland was, as I am
credibly informed, in the year 1769": William Eddis, Letters from