[12] Cf. Grimke, _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; Grimke, _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] Grimke, Public Laws, p.
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