A duty of "_Fifteen Pounds_, Proclamation Money, is laid." _Acts of
Assembly_ (Allinson, 1776), p. 315.
~1769 (circa). Connecticut: Importation Prohibited (?).~
Title and text not found. "Whereas, the increase of slaves is injurious
to the poor, and inconvenient, therefore," etc. Fowler, _Historical
Status of the Negro in Connecticut_, in _Local Law_, etc., p. 125.
~1770. Rhode Island: Bill to Prohibit Importation.~
Bill to prohibit importation of slaves fails. Arnold, _History of Rhode
Island_ (1859), II. 304, 321, 337.
~1771, April 12. Massachusetts: Bill to Prevent Importation.~
Bill passes both houses and fails of Governor Hutchinson's assent.
_House Journal_, pp. 211, 215, 219, 228, 234, 236, 240, 242-3.
~1771. Maryland: Additional L5 Duty Act.~
"An Act for imposing a further additional duty of five pounds current
money per poll on all negroes imported into this province." For seven
years. _Laws of Maryland since 1763_: 1771, ch. vii.; cf. 1773, sess.
Nov.-Dec., ch. xiv.
~1772, April 1. Virginia: Address to the King.~
" ... The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of
Africa hath long been considered as a trade of great inhumanity, and
under its _present encouragement_, we have too much reason to fear _will
endanger the very existence_ of your majesty's American dominions..
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