" The act
referred to is not to be found. _Acts of Assembly, 1691-1718_, p. 224.
~1717, June 8. Maryland: Additional 20s. Duty Act.~
"An Act for laying an Additional Duty of Twenty Shillings Current Money
per Poll on all Irish Servants, ... also, the Additional Duty of Twenty
Shillings Current Money per Poll on all Negroes, for raising a Fund for
the Use of Publick Schools," etc. Continued by Act of 1728. _Compleat
Collection of the Laws of Maryland_ (ed. 1727), p. 191; Bacon, _Laws_,
1728, ch. viii.
~1717, Dec. 11. South Carolina: Prohibitive Duty.~
"A further additional Act to an Act entitled An Act for the better
ordering and governing of Negroes and all other Slaves; and to an
additional Act to an Act entitled An Act for the better ordering and
governing of Negroes and all other Slaves."
Sec. 3. "And _whereas_, the great importation of negroes to this Province,
in proportion to the white inhabitants of the same, whereby the future
safety of this Province will be greatly endangered; for the prevention
whereof,
"_Be it enacted_ by the authority aforesaid, That all negro slaves of
any age or condition whatsoever, imported or otherwise brought into this
Province, from any part of the world, shall pay such additional duties
as is hereafter named, that is to say:--that every merchant or other
person whatsoever, who shall, eighteen months after the ratification of
this Act, import any negro slave as aforesaid, shall, for every such
slave, pay unto the public receiver for the time being, at the time of
each importation, over and above all the duties already charged on
negroes, by any law in force in this Province, the additional sum of
forty pounds current money of this Province," etc.
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