" Title only given. Grimke,
_Public Laws_, p. xvi, No. 362.
~1715, May 28. Pennsylvania: L5 Duty Act.~
"An Act for laying a Duty on _Negroes_ imported into this province."
Disallowed by Great Britain, 1719. _Acts and Laws of Pennsylvania,
1715_, p. 270; _Colonial Records_ (1852), III. 75-6; Chalmers,
_Opinions_, II. 118.
~1715, June 3. Maryland: 20s. Duty Act.~
"An Act laying an Imposition on Negroes ...; and also on Irish Servants,
to prevent the importing too great a Number of Irish Papists into this
Province." Supplemented April 23, 1735, and July 25, 1754. _Compleat
Collection of the Laws of Maryland_ (ed. 1727), p. 157; Bacon, _Laws_,
1715, ch. xxxvi. Sec.8; 1735, ch. vi. Sec.Sec.1-3; _Acts of Assembly, 1754_, p.
10.
~1716, June 30. South Carolina: L3 Duty Act.~
"An Act for laying an Imposition on Liquors, Goods and Merchandizes,
Imported into and Exported out of this Province, for the raising of a
Fund of Money towards the defraying the publick charges and expences of
the Government." A duty of L3 was laid on African slaves, and L30 on
American slaves. Cooper, _Statutes_, II. 649.
~1716. New York: 5 oz. and 10 oz. plate Duty Act.~
"An Act to Oblige all Vessels Trading into this Colony (except such as
are therein excepted) to pay a certain Duty; and for the further
Explanation and rendring more Effectual certain Clauses in an Act of
General Assembly of this Colony, Intituled, An Act by which a Duty is
laid on Negroes, and other Slaves, imported into this Colony.
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