Sec. 4. This section on duties to be in force for four years after
ratification, and thence to the end of the next session of the General
Assembly. Cooper, _Statutes_, VII. 368.
~1718, Feb. 22. Pennsylvania: Duty Act.~
"An Act for continuing a duty on Negroes brought into this province."
Carey and Bioren, _Laws_, I. 118.
~1719, March 20. South Carolina: L10 Duty Act.~
"An Act for laying an Imposition on Negroes, Liquors, and other Goods
and Merchandizes, imported, and exported out of this Province, for the
raising of a Fund of Money towards the defraying the Publick Charges and
Expences of this Government; as also to Repeal several Duty Acts, and
Clauses and Paragraphs of Acts, as is herein mentioned." This repeals
former duty acts (e.g. that of 1714), and lays a duty of L10 on African
slaves, and L30 on American slaves. Cooper, _Statutes_, III. 56.
~1721, Sept. 21. South Carolina: L10 Duty Act.~
"An Act for granting to His Majesty a Duty and Imposition on Negroes,
Liquors, and other Goods and Merchandize, imported into and exported out
of this Province." This was a continuation of the Act of 1719. _Ibid._,
III. 159.
~1722, Feb. 23. South Carolina: L10 Duty Act.~
"An Act for Granting to His Majesty a Duty and Imposition on Negroes,
Liquors, and other Goods and Merchandizes, for the use of the Publick
of this Province.
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