" For seven years; violations incur forfeiture and sale of
slaves at auction; slaves brought from elsewhere than Africa to pay L10,
etc. _Laws and Acts of New Jersey, 1703-1717_ (ed. 1717), p. 43; _N.J.
Archives_, 1st Series, XIII. 516, 517, 520, 522, 523, 527, 532, 541.
~1713, March 26. Great Britain and Spain: The Assiento.~
"The Assiento, or Contract for allowing to the Subjects of Great Britain
the Liberty of importing Negroes into the Spanish America. Signed by the
Catholick King at Madrid, the 26th Day of March, 1713."
Art. I. "First then to procure, by this means, a mutual and reciprocal
advantage to the sovereigns and subjects of both crowns, her British
majesty does offer and undertake for the persons, whom she shall name
and appoint, That they shall oblige and charge themselves with the
bringing into the West-Indies of America, belonging to his catholick
majesty, in the space of the said 30 years, to commence on the 1st day
of May, 1713, and determine on the like day, which will be in the year
1743, _viz._ 144000 negroes, _Piezas de India_, of both sexes, and of
all ages, at the rate of 4800 negroes, _Piezas de India_, in each of the
said 30 years, with this condition, That the persons who shall go to the
West-Indies to take care of the concerns of the assiento, shall avoid
giving any offence, for in such case they shall be prosecuted and
punished in the same manner, as they would have been in Spain, if the
like misdemeanors had been committed there.
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