576.
~1784, February. Rhode Island: Manumission.~
"An Act authorizing the manumission of negroes, mulattoes, and others,
and for the gradual abolition of slavery." Persons born after March,
1784, to be free. Bill framed pursuant to a petition of Quakers.
_Colonial Records_, X. 7-8; Arnold, _History of Rhode Island_, II. 503.
~1784, March 26. South Carolina: L3 and L5 Duty Act.~
"An Act for levying and collecting certain Duties," etc. Cooper,
_Statutes_, IV. 607.
~1785, April 12. New York: Partial Prohibition.~
"An Act granting a bounty on hemp to be raised within this State, and
imposing an additional duty on sundry articles of merchandise, and for
other purposes therein mentioned."
" ... _And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid_, That if
any negro or other person to be imported or brought into this State from
any of the United States or from any other place or country after the
first day of June next, shall be sold as a slave or slaves within this
State, the seller or his or her factor or agent, shall be deemed guilty
of a public offence, and shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of
one hundred pounds lawful money of New York, to be recovered by any
person," etc.
"_And be it further enacted_ ... That every such person imported or
brought into this State and sold contrary to the true intent and meaning
of this act shall be freed.
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