411, and _N.Y. Hist. Soc. Coll._, I. 322.
[9] _Acts of Assembly, 1691-1718_, pp. 97, 125, 134; _Doc.
rel. Col. Hist. New York_, V. 178, 185, 293.
[10] The Assembly attempted to raise the slave duty in 1711,
but the Council objected (_Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York_, V.
292 ff.), although, as it seems, not on account of the slave
duty in particular. Another act was passed between 1711 and
1716, but its contents are not known (cf. title of the Act of
1716). For the Act of 1716, see _Acts of Assembly, 1691-1718_,
p. 224.
[11] _Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York_, VI. 37, 38.
[12] _Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York_, VI. 32-4.
[13] _Ibid._, VII. 907. This act was annually renewed. The
slave duty remained a chief source of revenue down to 1774.
Cf. _Report of Governor Tryon_, in _Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New
York_, VIII. 452.
[14] _Laws of New York, 1785-88_ (ed. 1886), ch. 68, p. 121.
Substantially the same act reappears in the revision of the
laws of 1788: _Ibid._, ch. 40, p. 676.
[15] The slave population of New York has been estimated as
follows:--
In 1698, 2,170. _Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York_, IV. 420.
" 1703, 2,258. _N.Y. Col. MSS._, XLVIII.; cited in Hough,
_N.Y. Census, 1855_, Introd.
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